Voting in the election of the governor began in the Irkutsk region

“Everything is normal.

All polling stations were opened for voters at 08:00 (03:00 Moscow time) ", - quotes the press service of Interfax.

1 million 857 thousand 646 voters will be able to take part in the voting.

In addition to the election of the governor, the region will elect 12 mayors, 35 heads and 323 deputies of municipal councils.

"September 11, 12 and 13 are equivalent days when voters can come to polling stations from 08:00 to 20:00," TASS quotes Ilya Dmitriev, chairman of the election commission of the Irkutsk region.

LDPR representative Andrei Dukhovnikov, Larisa Yegorova from Fair Russia, Mikhail Shchapov from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Gennady Shchadov, representing the Communist Party of Social Justice, and self-nominated acting governor Igor Kobzev are candidates for the post of governor of the Irkutsk region.

Earlier, the chairman of the Central Election Commission of Russia, Ella Pamfilova, announced the readiness of the electoral system for a single voting day.

In late July, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law introducing the possibility of voting in elections at all levels within a few days.

The general director of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) Valery Fedorov, in an interview with FAN, spoke about the attitude of Russians to the multi-day voting.