In the first ten days of April, the occupiers in Crimea began the public portion of their latest tragicomedy of “State Duma elections,” the finale of which is scheduled for September.
This consists of forced gatherings of “public sector employees” for “meetings with nominated candidates for the United Russia primary vote,” which will be formalized at the “party vote” at the end of May.
However, it is already clear that the Kremlin has approved the “re-election to the Duma” in the same “majoritarian Crimean constituencies” of the current “deputies” – Leonid Babashov and, most likely, Konstantin Bakharev.
But the third “Crimean majoritarian constituency,” where two no-names, Alexey Chernyak and Yuriy Nesterenko, have already replaced each other in the Duma since 2021, has already become a gateway for the aggressor of the current Yalta gauleiter, Yanina Pavlenko, to be installed in Russian “parliament.”
As some say, for Pavlenko, a “Duma mandate” is more of an “honorable exile” and, at the same time, an “indulgence” from many rivals in uniform who want to “defeat” this protégé of the Kovalchuks’ clan.
Let us recall that for several months now, a “cleansing of ranks” and corresponding “confessions of accomplices” have been observed around the billion-dollar Yalta “official trough,” in Moscow detention centers.
Interestingly, “under Pavlenko,” the occupiers even changed the “electoral vertical,” which they accomplished through “federal decisions.”
Now, in two “Crimean districts,” the abolished “district commissions” will be replaced by “territorial” ones, and in the third, for “special oversight,” everything will be run directly by the “republican electoral commission.”
Against this backdrop, Crimean collaborators responsible for implementing the “electoral agenda” were recently given some extremely noteworthy “Kremlin instructions.”
For the September “elections,” they are demanding a “turnout” of at least 70 %, despite the fact that in 2021, these figures were not so closely monitored in the Kremlin, and back then, the “Duma turnout” on the peninsula was declared to be around 50 %.
Also, for “United Russia,” the Kremlin’s curators are demanding a “75 % vote” in the “multi-mandate district” and at the same time, at least 80 % for the aforementioned “majoritarians.”
However, this figure could be somewhat “lowered,” and it’s highly likely that this will be driven by a “breakthrough idea” from Vladimir Konstantinov, the “leading Crimean United Russia member.”
He and his group of “painters,” who are responsible for the figures described, are now urgently asking the Kremlin to cancel “remote voting” on the peninsula this time, citing alleged “threats of external interference in the process in the frontline region.”
And if they are ultimately allowed to hold “elections” only “the old-fashioned way,” then under this pretext, the collaborators will ask for a slightly lower “bar for results.”
In any case, the aggressor’s propaganda will soon shift almost entirely to the “Duma elections,” fulfilling the Kremlin’s directive to demonstrate “mass unity” and “support for the authorities” in such a simple yet completely unrealistic manner.
