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Just days before the election, the opposition has revised its strategy. His slogan addressed to voters: everything except United Russia, the party of the majority.
With our correspondent in Moscow, Étienne Bouche
These elections sparked a wave of protest this summer in Russia, particularly in Moscow. Several local polls are held this Sunday, September 8 in the country, the Russians are called to vote for governors, city councilors and regional parliamentarians in thirty regions. Since July, the so-called "off-system" opposition has protested against the refusal to register its representatives. Officially, these candidates were unable to attend due to procedural flaws.
The obstinacy of the liberal opposition will at least have allowed these elections not to go unnoticed. The majority of the Russians are not interested in this type of poll. For those who protested this summer, the shelving of independent candidates was a testimony of impunity that was too blatant.
Prevented from standing, opposition representatives now hope to weigh in another way: by calling voters to vote against United Russia. Based on active use of social media, Alexei Navalny's supporters are working to unmask candidates who hide their affiliation to this increasingly unpopular education.
The biography of Alexander Beglov has for example disappeared from the site of United Russia. The way seems clear for the current acting governor of Saint-Petersburg who intends to remain at the head of the second city of the country. His serious competitors did not pass the municipal filter and the Communist Party candidate, director Vladimir Bortko, pulled out in the home stretch. But the victory of the candidates of power is not assured yet this Sunday in a gloomy economic context in Russia.