2012 Russian Opposition Coordination Council election

2012 Russian Opposition Coordination Council election (Common Civil list) Russian Opposition Coordination Council Kso-logo.png presidential 20–22 October 2012 170,012 (97,727 verified) 47.83% 130x130px Alexey Navalny 2 (cropped) 1.jpg Alexei Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation 43,723 53.76% Dmitry Bykov.jpg Dmitry Bykov League of Voters 2974B8 38,520 47.37% Garri Kasparow (18776605665) (cropped) 2.jpg Garry Kasparov United Civil Front 33,849 41.62% Sobchak phone.png Ksenia Sobchak Independent 32,529 40.00% Yashin Ilia 2012.JPG Ilya Yashin RPR-PARNAS 32,529 39.94% Гельфанд Михаил Сергеевич 2013-09-25 (cropped).jpg Mikhail Gelfand Independent 32,260 39.67% Чирикова Евгения Сергеевна (cropped).JPG Yevgeniya Chirikova Independent 32,221 39.62% Mikhail Shatz - Fond Sozidanie .jpg Mikhail Shats Independent 30,580 37.60% Владимир Ашурков.png Vladimir Ashurkov People's Alliance OC organization committee 28,754 35.36% 2012 Russian Opposition Coordination Council election (Left-wing Forces list) Russian Opposition Coordination Council Kso-logo.png presidential 20–22 October 2012 170,012 (97,727 verified) 40.38% 130x130px Alexey Gaskarov in 2013.jpg Alexey Gaskarov Independent 22,935 33.41% Yekaterina Aitova Communist Party of the Russian Federation 22,921 33.39% Alexander Nikolayev Independent 14,632 21.32% Akim Palchayev Left Front (Russia) 13,720 19.99% Leonid Razvozzhayev Left Front (Russia) 12,760 18.59% 2012 Russian Opposition Coordination Council election (Liberal Forces list) Russian Opposition Coordination Council Kso-logo.png presidential 20–22 October 2012 170,012 (97,727 verified) 41.26% 130x130px Первая конференция московской Солидарности (34).JPG Sergey Davidis 5th of December Party OC organization committee 27,216 38.80% APivovarov.jpg Andrey Pivovarov ru Пивоваров, Андрей Сергеевич RPR-PARNAS 23,314 33.24% Anton Dolgikh RPR-PARNAS 21,164 30.17% Anna Karetnikova 5th of December Party OC organization committee 19,174 27.34% Pyotr Tsarkov Solidarnost 17,729 25.28% 2012 Russian Opposition Coordination Council election (Nationalist Forces list) Russian Opposition Coordination Council Kso-logo.png presidential 20–22 October 2012 170,012 (97,727 verified) 39.89% 130x130px Daniil Konstantinov Moscow Defense League 942921 21,433 31.61% Igor Artemov ru Артёмов, Игорь Владимирович RONS 17,393 25.65% Nikolay Bondarik Russian march OC organization committee 000000 16,800 24.77% Krylov K A.jpg Konstantin Krylov NDP AE0001 15,895 23.44% Vladimir Thor ru Владимир Тор NDP AE0001 10,593 15.62% Elections to the Russian Opposition Coordination Council were held on 20–22 October 2012. The Coordination Council was elected for one year; it was planned to hold new elections after this period. Registration of candidates and voters was carried out on the 'cvk2012.org' website. 81325 voters took part in the elections.Центральный выборный комитет: Результаты голосования http://www.cvk2012.org/news/rezultaty_golosovaniya/ https://archive.today/20121023164700/http://www.cvk2012.org/news/rezultaty_golosovaniya/ 2012-10-23 2013-01-25 The elections to the Coordination Council were organized after repeated mass political demonstrations that began after the Russian legislative election on 4 December 2011, continued during the campaign for the election of the President of Russia and after the presidential elections held on 4 March 2012. The creation of the Coordination Council was announced at the second March of Millions on June 12, 2012.Удальцов: оппозиция рассчитывает привлечь 100 000 человек на выборы в Координационный совет. «Ведомости», 18.08.2012 http://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/news/3027171/udalcov_oppoziciya_rasschityvaet_privlech_100_000_chelovek https://web.archive.org/web/20140708014912/http://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/news/3027171/udalcov_oppoziciya_rasschityvaet_privlech_100_000_chelovek 2014-07-08 2012-09-26 The Coordination Council was dissolved in October 2013.2013-10-19 Координационный совет оппозиции прекратил существование https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2324455 2023-03-30 www.kommersant.ru ru 2022-12-07 https://web.archive.org/web/20221207172600/https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2324455 live Organization A council consisting of 45 deputies was elected at the elections. At the same time, 30 of them were selected according to the general list, and another 15 - according to "ideological quotas". Each voter received 4 ballots at the polling station: for the general civil part of the list, for voting for representatives of the left-wing forces, for voting for representatives of liberals, for voting for representatives of nationalists. In the common ballot, the voter had the right to mark no more than 30 candidates, in the ideological ballots - no more than 5. In other words, the voter in total had 45 votes, which he distributed at his own discretion. The elections were organized by the Central Election Committee. Leonid Volkov was elected chairman of the committee. Three members of the committee were delegated by the main ideological currents that make up the organizing committee of protest actions (the left-wing was represented by Alexander Ivanov, the nationalists were Elena Denezhkina, the liberals were Denis Yudin).The committee also included representatives of associations engaged in election observation: Grigory Melkonyants, deputy executive director of the Golos association, Vasily Vaysenberg, a member of the Sonar movement, and Yulia Drogova, an activist of the Citizen Observer project. In addition, experts in the field of Internet technologies Anton Nossik and Ilya Segalovich, founder of the voting website votepoller.com Valentin Preobrazhensky, board member of the Electronic Democracy Development Foundation Maxim Osovsky and board member of the Sonar observer movement Olga Feygina were included as experts in the committee.Состав Комитета - Комитет. Центральный выборный комитет http://cvk2012.org/cvk/sostav/ https://archive.today/20130414150123/http://cvk2012.org/cvk/sostav/ 2013-04-14 2013-02-08 Candidates A total of 209 candidates were registered.http://www.cvk2012.org/candidates/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120923150834/http://www.cvk2012.org/candidates/ 2012-09-23 Список кандидатов — Центральный выборный комитет Архивированная копия http://www.cvk2012.org/candidates/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120923150834/http://www.cvk2012.org/candidates/ 2012-09-23 2012-09-22 Registration was open until September 15 inclusive. Almost 300 applications for registration were received in total, with half of them received in the last two days of registration.О всякой всячине — Регистрация кандидатов завершена, список окончательно сформирован! http://leonwolf.livejournal.com/432437.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120925064646/http://leonwolf.livejournal.com/432437.html 2012-09-25 2012-09-22 Voters were asked to give answers to 25 questions in the "Political Compass" section and compare them with the answers of candidates for the Constitutional Court.Политический компас https://web.archive.org/web/20121016044325/http://compass.cvk2012.org/compass/ Chronology September 2012 The organizers refused to register Maxim "Tesak" Martsinkevich.Тесаком по выборам — Политические новости России и мира — МК 9 September 2012 http://www.mk.ru/politics/article/2012/09/09/746248-tesakom-po-vyiboram.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120912040459/http://www.mk.ru/politics/article/2012/09/09/746248-tesakom-po-vyiboram.html 2012-09-12 2012-09-27 October 2012 On 16 October, Lyudmila Ulitskaya and Irina Yasina withdrew their candidacies, considering that there are “a significant number of active, motivated, knowledgeable young people whose work in the Coordinating Council will bring much more benefits.” At the same time, they noted that they fully support the idea of elections to the Coordination Council.Ирина Ясина. Решение — "Эхо Москвы", 16.10.2012 http://echo.msk.ru/blog/yasina/941104-echo/ https://web.archive.org/web/20121018193954/http://www.echo.msk.ru/blog/yasina/941104-echo/ 2012-10-18 2012-10-16 On 16 October, Sergey Mavrodi said in an interview about the mass registration of MMM members as voters of the Coordination Council and plans to “get the whole council”.„Сергей Мавроди: У нас нет никаких оппозиционеров!“ https://web.archive.org/web/20121018001724/http://infox.ru/authority/mans/2012/10/16/Syergyey_Mavrodi__U_.phtml — Infox.ru, 16.10.2012. According to Leonid Volkov, chairman of the Central Election Committee (TsVK), about 18,000 MMM participants registered that day. Volkov said that the TsVK would do everything to ensure that as few of them as possible could take part in the vote.Результаты конкурса эссе, технические новости и атака клонов. Блог Леонида Волкова, 17.10.2012 http://leonwolf.livejournal.com/443439.html https://web.archive.org/web/20121019220230/http://leonwolf.livejournal.com/443439.html 2012-10-19 2012-10-17 Subsequently, when counting votes, the MMM participants who voted according to the “Mavrodi list” were excluded from the final count of votes. On 17 October, it became known that a criminal case was opened at the request of 64 candidates against an “unidentified person” who “seized their money, causing material damage to each in the amount of 10 thousand rubles”.Возбуждено уголовное дело по факту хищения денежных средств граждан, заплативших взносы для участия в выборах в Координационный совет российской оппозиции https://web.archive.org/web/20121021230023/http://www.genproc.gov.ru/news/news-78569/ — Сообщение на официальном сайте Генеральной Прокуратуры РФ, 17.10.12 According to a report in the Snob magazine, the applicants are “adherents of Sergei Mavrodi from MMM who were denied registration as candidates, and the money has not yet reached them, because they still cannot provide account details for a refund.”Тихон Дзядко, Оппозиция готовится к прыжку https://web.archive.org/web/20121019185001/http://www.snob.ru/selected/entry/53860 — журнал «Сноб», 17.10.12 According to Rosbalt, Mavrodi was engaged in activities to disrupt the elections to the opposition coordinating council in the interests of the Russian authorities.Мавроди признался, что помогает властям «разваливать оппозицию» https://web.archive.org/web/20121019180225/http://www.rosbalt.ru/main/2012/10/17/1047498.html — Росбалт, 17/10/2012 On October 18, State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev withdrew his candidacy. He explained his move by the fact that his proposal to postpone the elections to December for greater participation of the regions in the voting was not supported, and also by the fact that little-known candidates were placed in an unequal position. At the same time, Ponomarev declared his support for the idea of elections and called on everyone to vote.И.Пономарев снял свою кандидатуру с выборов в Совет оппозиции https://www.rbc.ru/politics/18/10/2012/5703fe3f9a7947fcbd44194b 2023-03-30 РБК 18 October 2012 ru 2023-03-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20230330221750/https://www.rbc.ru/politics/18/10/2012/5703fe3f9a7947fcbd44194b live On 19 October, Oleg Lurie announced the withdrawal of his candidacy from the elections. He explained his decision by the involvement of the TsVK and, as a result, numerous falsifications in favor of certain candidates "confirming that there will be no elections to the Coordination Council as such. And there will only be an announcement of the "Navalny list" necessary for the organizers. According to Lurie, "all this has been done in order for a group of 30 people (Navalny and persons appointed by him) to make up 100% of the general civil list of the Coordination Council, and thereby be legalized as representatives of the all-Russian opposition masses.ГОЛОСУЙ, НЕ ГОЛОСУЙ... ВСЕ РАВНО НАВАЛЬНЫЙ. — https://web.archive.org/web/20121021233003/http://oleglurie-new.livejournal.com/58439.html oleglurie-new The day before the end of the voting, Oleg Lurie published "Navalny's list" (a list of those whom the TsVK, according to Lurie, will put into the Opposition Coordination Council).СПИСОК НАВАЛЬНОГО. — https://web.archive.org/web/20121026032737/http://oleglurie-new.livejournal.com/58724.html oleglurie-new Of the 30 candidates named by Lurie, 28 went to the Coordination Council. Dates 20 August 2012 - start of registration of candidates 27 August 2012 - beginning of the registration of the Regional Election Committees, which were engaged in the registration of voters in the regions, as well as the direct conduct of voting at the polling stations 10 September 2012 - beginning of the voter registration 15 September 2012 - end of registration of candidates and acceptance of applications for the creation of electronic polling stations 25 September 2012 - the last day of public testing of electronic platforms, which also included "trial" voting 1–6 October 2012 - the first round of candidate debates on TV Rain channelНа «Дожде» пройдут дебаты кандидатов в КС оппозиции. Грани.ру, 26.09.2012 http://grani.ru/Politics/Russia/Election/m.206764.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120927013028/http://grani.ru/Politics/Russia/Election/m.206764.html 2012-09-27 2012-09-26 15 October 2012 - end of acceptance of TsVK applications for the establishment of polling stations 18 October 2012 - end of voter registration (however, verification of already registered voters continued until the end of voting)Решение ЦВК No. 73. 16.10.2012 http://cvk2012.org/news/reshenie_cvk_73/?Year=2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121020235317/http://www.cvk2012.org/news/reshenie_cvk_73/?Year=2012 2012-10-20 2012-10-18 20–22 October 2012 - voting, until 22 October, 20.00 Moscow time (the voting end date was postponed by one day due to cyberattacks on voting sites)На Трубной площади в Москве проходит голосование на выборах в КС — Каспаров.ру, 21.10.2012 http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5083DEADE2B91 https://web.archive.org/web/20121023091536/http://www.kasparov.ru/material.php?id=5083DEADE2B91 2012-10-23 2012-10-21 Debates The pre-election debates of the candidates were held on the TV Rain channel from 1 to 19 October 2012. The qualifying round of debates was from 1 to 6 October. The semi-final was from 8 to 12 October. The final round was from 15 to 19 October. The winners of the debates were chosen by voters who registered and passed the identity verification procedure on the cvk2012.org website. Results The results of the elections were announced an hour after the completion of the voting live on the TV Rain channel.Оглашены результаты выборов в КС оппозиции – DW – 22.10.2012 https://www.dw.com/ru/оглашены-результаты-выборов-в-координационный-совет-оппозиции/a-16324380 2023-03-30 dw.com ru Common Civil list Alexei Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation 43723 Dmitry Bykov League of Voters #2974B8 38520 Garry Kasparov United Civil Front 33849 Ksenia Sobchak Independent 32529 Ilya Yashin RPR–PARNAS/Solidarnost 32478 Mikhail Gelfand Independent 32260 Yevgeniya Chirikova Independent 32221 Mikhail Shats Independent 30580 Vladimir Ashurkov People's Alliance OC organization committee 28754 Dmitry Gudkov A Just Russia 28708 Tatyana Lazareva Independent 28707 Sergey Parkhomenko League of Voters #2974B8 27434 Filipp Dzyadko ru Дзядко, Филипп Викторович Independent 27122 Gennady Gudkov A Just Russia 26973 Lyubov Sobol People's Alliance OC organization committee 25270 Boris Nemtsov RPR–PARNAS 24623 Olga Romanova Russia Behind Bars #297284 23318 Oleg Kashin Independent 22496 Andrey Illarionov Independent 22445 Sergei Udaltsov Left Front/AKM 21424 Vladimir Kara-Murza RPR–PARNAS 20845 Rustem Adagamov Independent 20813 Alexander Vinokurov (businessman, born 1970) ru Винокуров, Александр Иванович (предприниматель) Alexander Vinokurov Independent 20382 Maxim Katz Yabloko-affiliated 19770 Suren Gazaryan Yabloko 18986 Georgy Alburov People's Alliance OC organization committee 18844 Andrey Piontkovsky Solidarnost 17662 Vladimir Mirzoyev Independent 16026 Oleg Shein A Just Russia 15744 Vladislav Naganov ru Наганов, Владислав Игоревич People's Alliance OC organization committee 15541 Votes for the rest non-elected candidates 792695 Against all 159 81325 170012 Central Election Committee, Panorama Center Left-wing Forces list Alexey Gaskarov Independent anti-fascist Independent politician 22935 Yekaterina Aitova Communist Party 22921 Alexander Nikolayev Independent communist Independent politician 14632 Akim Palchayev Left Front/Svoboda OC organization committee 13720 Leonid Razvozzhayev Left Front 12760 Votes for the rest non-elected candidates 85271 Against all 11872 68645 170012 Central Election Committee, Panorama Center Liberal Forces list Sergey Davidis 5th of December Party OC organization committee/Solidarnost 27216 Andrey Pivovarov ru Пивоваров, Андрей Сергеевич RPR–PARNAS 23314 Anton Dolgikh RPR–PARNAS 21164 Anna Karetnikova 5th of December Party OC organization committee/Solidarnost 19174 Pyotr Tsarkov Solidarnost 17729 Votes for the rest non-elected candidates 83500 Against all 8202 70144 170012 Central Election Committee, Panorama Center Nationalist Forces list Daniil Konstantinov Moscow Defense League #942921 21433 Igor Artemov ru Артёмов, Игорь Владимирович Russia Will Be Freed By Our Forces 17393 Nikolay Bondarik Russian march OC organization committee in Saint Petersburg black 16800 Konstantin Krylov National Democratic Party #AE0001 15895 Vladimir Thor ru Владимир Тор National Democratic Party #AE0001 10593 Votes for the rest non-elected candidates 46831 Against all 17246 67814 170012 Central Election Committee, Panorama Center Official publications On 24 October 2012, Sergey Nesterovich, the technical auditor of the elections from the "curia of nationalists", published his report, in which, in particular, he noted: a much greater degree of technical soundness and openness”.Сергей Нестерович, «Голосование в КС оппозиции — надёжно ли это?» https://web.archive.org/web/20121101203329/http://www.apn.ru/publications/article27389.htm — «Агентство Политических Новостей», 24.10.2012Сергей Нестерович. Голосование в КС оппозиции — что дальше? (электронная демократия на практике) // «Агентство Политических Новостей» 2.10.2012 https://web.archive.org/web/20121103132425/http://www.apn.ru/publications/article27438.htm приложение к техническому отчёту по выборам в КС Media coverage of elections Articles about the elections were published in a number of major Russian media, including Lenta.ru, Gazeta.Ru,http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2012/08/21_a_4733261.shtml Оппозиция начала выдвижение кандидатов в свой координационный совет, «Газета. Ru», 21.08.2012. 2012-09-10 2012-09-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20120924021230/http://www.gazeta.ru/politics/2012/08/21_a_4733261.shtml live Echo of Moscow, TV Rain, Kommersant, Vedomosti, Novaya Gazeta. State federal TV channels (Channel One, Russia-1, NTV) negatively assessed the nature and significance of the elected body. On 21 October 2012, the program “Sunday Vremya” aired a story by Anton Vernitsky about the elections to the opposition coordinating council, in which a conversation with Yevgeni Grishkovetz was shown, in which he criticized the opposition. On October 22, on his website, the writer stated that he had not given any interview to Channel One. His words were taken from a recording of a conversation with a correspondent of the Yekaterinburg Internet portal, and taken out of context.2012-10-23 Гришковец возмущен Первым каналом: его слова об оппозиции использовали в идеологической войне https://www.newsru.com/russia/23oct2012/grishkovets.html 2023-03-30 NEWSru.com ru 2023-03-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20230330221750/https://www.newsru.com/russia/23oct2012/grishkovets.html live The reaction of the country's leadership and politicians Some members of the leadership of the United Russia party criticized the elections.Легитимность Координационного совета оппозиции вызывает серьёзные подозрения — Яровая // Сайт «Единой России», 23 октября 2012 http://er.ru/news/2012/10/23/legitimnost-koordinacionnogo-soveta-vyzyvaet-sereznye-podozreniya-yarovaya/ https://web.archive.org/web/20130926133752/http://er.ru/news/2012/10/23/legitimnost-koordinacionnogo-soveta-vyzyvaet-sereznye-podozreniya-yarovaya/ 2013-09-26 2012-10-30https://archive.today/20130416201425/http://st-petersburg.er.ru/news/2012/10/22/oppoziciya-ustroila-iz-vyborov-v-ks-politicheskuyu-pesochnicu-burmatov/ Бурматов видит в выборах в КС «политическую песочницу» оппозиции // Сайт «Единой России», 22 октября 2012 The co-chairman of the RPR-PARNAS party, Vladimir Ryzhkov did not put forward his candidacy for elections to the Coordination Council. He was generally neutral about the elections. The shortcomings of the elections to the Coordination Council, according to Ryzhkov: 1) there is no expansion of the social base; 2) it was not possible to maintain a broad coalition, which was announced in December 2011 (Yabloko, CPRF, Prokhorov's party, Kudrin's group, etc. do not participate); 3) elections are virtual, and therefore they do not give legitimacy.Владимир Рыжков. Если ли политическая стратегия у оппозиции? «Эхо Москвы», 5.10.2012 http://echo.msk.ru/programs/year2012/936708-echo/ https://web.archive.org/web/20121010013611/http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/year2012/936708-echo/ 2012-10-10 2012-10-06 According to the chairman of the Yabloko party, Sergey Mitrokhin, this project is very interesting, but Yabloko does not take part in it, since Yabloko has a different strategy. "Yabloko's strategy is to participate in the elections that exist today, sometimes only in name, in these very dishonest rigged elections and try to make them honest and transparent." In "virtual elections", as Mitrokhin called the elections to the Coordination Council, Yabloko does not participate. In addition, by decision of the congress, Yabloko cannot take part in structures where there are left-wing radicals and nationalists.В круге СВЕТА: Зачем нужен координационный совет? — «Эхо Москвы», 17.10.2012 http://echo.msk.ru/programs/sorokina/941115-echo/ https://web.archive.org/web/20121021034939/http://www.echo.msk.ru/programs/sorokina/941115-echo/ 2012-10-21 2012-10-17 The Second Forum of the Left Forces adopted a resolution to boycott the elections to the Coordination Council. Sergei Udaltsov, Ilya Ponomarev and Ilya Budraitskis, who called on the left to participate in the elections, were in the minority.Второй Форум левых сил: впечатления и краткий итог — Рабкор.ру https://web.archive.org/web/20121015170213/http://www.rabkor.ru/debate/13818.html After the results of the voting were announced, Ilya Ponomarev, State Duma deputy from A Just Russia, who did not get into the Coordination Council (on the eve of the elections, he wished to withdraw his candidacy), said that "the united opposition has ceased to exist". In his opinion, a "new political liberal party - Coordination Council" has appeared.Избранный КС — «новая политическая либеральная партия» — РИА Новый День, 23.10.2012 Political scientists' assessments Political scientist Alexander Kynev commented on the result of the elections: "Too Moscow and party character of the Opposition Coordination Council is an obvious image problem. In fact, the elected OCC consists of approximately the same people who organized the Moscow protests of the last year".Александр Кынев. Оппозиция тусовки — Газета.ру, 23.10.2012 http://www.gazeta.ru/comments/2012/10/23_x_4821505.shtml https://web.archive.org/web/20121025000642/http://www.gazeta.ru/comments/2012/10/23_x_4821505.shtml 2012-10-25 2012-10-23 Political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin noted that the European-oriented democrats received an absolute majority in the council. He emphasized the importance of the Coordination Council elections as one of the few options for a peaceful way out of the deadlock for Russia and the need for a new, separate legitimacy independent of Putin.Дмитрий Орешкин. Запасной выход — «Большой город», 23.10.2013 http://bg.ru/society/zapasnoj_vyhod-15336/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092910/http://bg.ru/society/zapasnoj_vyhod-15336/ 2016-03-04 2013-05-19 References Category:2011–2013 Russian protests Category:2012 elections in Russia Category:Opposition to Vladimir Putin