United Russia expects participants to receive 10% of the mandates in the elections
Participants in a special military operation (SV) can receive every tenth mandate in the September elections to regional and municipal parliaments. On such a result, in particular, they are guided in United Russia. According to the expert, 10% is a balanced share of the representative office of veterans in power, which can also be extrapolate to the upcoming Duma campaign in 2026.
The fact that the desired “quota” for passing participants in regional and municipal parliaments is 10%, “Kommersant” said the head of the Central Executive Committee of United Russia (EP) Alexander Sidyakin. True, this is a conditional bar, which is not enshrined in the regulatory documents of the party, the unicorn agreed: “But for ourselves we decided and informally call for this region. Everyone understands that this is our duty to these people. ”
According to EP, for preliminary internal party voting (primaries), which will be held from May 19 to May 25, applications were submitted 21.4 thousand people, including 940 participants in Svo. The main part of the veterans marks in municipal deputies, and to the elections to the Legislative Assembly of ten entities (Voronezh, Kaluga, Kostroma, Kurgan, Magadan, Novosibirsk, Ryazan and Chelyabinsk regions, the Republic of Komi and the Yamal-Nenets district) are striving to get 54 people with combat experience, previously calculated “Kommersant” (lists of primaries in Belgorod region are not disclosed for security reasons). In these parliaments, 412 deputies are sitting, thus, participants claim 13% of the mandates. Recall that according to the results of preliminary voting, they will automatically receive +25% of the result.
Several interlocutors in the regions where the elections will be held in the fall, confirmed “Kommersant” that the “quota” to pass veterans in parliaments, but called it “flexible”. For example, to the State Council of Komi, where 30 people sit, it is planned to nominate at least two candidates with combat experience (7%), and one of the sources of Kommersant says to the Syktyvkar City Council, which also consists of 30 deputies. According to the other, at least two participants of their own (that is 6% of 36 mandates), and at least five (9% of 56), can get to the “passing” places in the Voronezh City Duma (that is 6% of 56).
The Kommersant’s source in the Presidential Administration (AP) says that the Kremlin did not give attitudes for the veteran representative office as a percentage, since in each region lists of candidates are formed taking into account many factors. For example, somewhere current deputies who expect to re-elect already have the status of their participants. According to Kommersant’s sources in regions, it is not so simple to find suitable candidates from among the fighters: someone interferes with past criminal records, and someone simply does not see themselves in politics. “In the event of an election, the current military man will have to quit, but most of them do not want this,” says one of Kommersant’s interlocutors.
It is worth noting that not only EP will be put forward to the deputies. The first deputy chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Communist Party, Yuri Afonin, told Kommersant that the Communist Party is also preparing candidates with combat experience. But unlike the United Russia, the Communists make it “naturally,” Mr. Afonin emphasized: “We have entire primary departments that are at the front.” Recall that last year 320 participants of SV were elected from EP to the deputies, and 11 from the Communist Party of the Communist Party.
The sources of Kommersant in AP and YP note that it is too early to talk about the veteran quota in the next State Duma, since much will depend on what stage the special operation itself will be in 2026. Nevertheless, some of the interlocutors admit that the share may turn out to be similar – every tenth mandate.
A year ago, President Vladimir Putin estimated the number of groups in the area of his own at 700 thousand people. Based on this, the total number of Russians who were related to a special operation in three years can exceed 1 million people, political scientist Konstantin Kalachev reasoned. “At the same time, participation in her may be different: the official sent to the front line is also a participant in his. If you interpret expansion, then 10% is not a few and not many, it is a completely balanced figure, ”the expert believes. According to him, such a bar can also be extrapolate to the State Duma elections in 2026: « I will not be surprised if it is even higher. »
