EISI experts shared their initial predictions for the large-scale elections in 2023 as part of the “Elections 2023: the start of the campaign” roundtable, the organization’s press service reported.
In a broad five-year electoral cycle, the 2023 campaign is the busiest in terms of the number of elected senior officials, legislators and local governments, according to experts.
As Aleksey Chesnakov, head of the scientific council of the Center for Current Politics, points out, the EDG-2023 is a rallying point for everyone from officials and political elites to political experts.
“This campaign has five main implications. Value for the country that lies in the stability of the power system. Its significance for a future presidential election campaign. Of course, these two campaigns are different and the effect of one on the other is no doubt, but these are different agendas, different meanings. For the political system, this is a special status of the campaign, which is happening for the first time in the ‘new normal’,” he said.
According to Darya Kislitsyna, Head of EISI’s Regional Programs Department, the Far East will be one of the richest countries in terms of representation in elections at various levels this year.
“If we talk about governorship campaigns, then we will have five of them. In Chukotka, the campaign will be similar to the previous ones, but there is a request for an update that may come to light. A calm campaign with good results is expected in the Magadan region. The Amur region will also receive a high result due to the visible achievements of the authorities in the region. This is not easy in the Primorsky Territory, where political traditions are quite democratic and oppositional. And in Yakutia, the main challenge is the three campaign levels (VDL, AP and City Council). The struggle between the parties will emerge for the Il Tumen (legislative) elections,” he said.
Yevgeny Minchenko, head of communications, who owns Minchenko Consulting, said that intense and interesting governorship campaigns are expected in Siberia as well. In general, according to him, the approach of the candidates to the election programs and the approach of the voters to the election from a semantic point of view could change significantly this year.
As Alexander Asafov, columnist for the Moskva Speaks radio station, points out, experts consider Moscow and the Moscow Region as electoral worthy and broad issues. But despite the fact that elections in the capital often fall outside the general discussion about electoral processes, everything is pretty predictable there this year.
Source: Gazeta
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