DPR Nominations Begin for Parliamentary Primaries

Donetsk, March 8 – The chairman of the party’s regional executive committee, Yevgeny Maslov, said that in the DRC, the nomination of candidates for the United Russia primaries for elections to the People’s Assembly of the republic has begun.

Elections for the provincial legislature will be held in September on a single voting day. For the first time, the People’s Assembly of the DRC will not be elected as the parliament of a self-proclaimed state, but as the legislative assembly of a region of the Russian Federation. It will include 90 deputies, not 100 as before.

“For the first time in the DRC, we are launching an open preliminary voting procedure … the most open procedure that exists in the Russian Federation today. United Russia is the only party that, before nominating candidates, consults with voters and nominates only those who were supported by the voters of this country,” Maslov told reporters. region or that.

According to him, “starting from March 8, every active resident of the DRC can present his candidacy for elections to the People’s Assembly.” “I mean participating in the preliminary voting procedures,” he explained.

“The nomination will take place from March 8 to March 27. Oddly enough, from the moment the documents and application are submitted and approved by the organizing committee, he (primary candidate – ed.) As a participant, a person already has a chance to campaign for himself,” Maslov added.