RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2012 AND THE CONSEQUENCES

RUSSIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2012 AND THE CONSEQUENCES Presentation by Zhogin Alexander Financial University Under The Government Of Russian Federation IFF 1 -1 19. 10. 15

The structure of the presentation 1) General information 2) Candidates 3) Candidates ruled ineligible 4) Pre-election campaign 5) Election promises 6) Social researches 7) Charges 8) Political meetings 9) The foreign reaction 10) The consequences 11) Interesting facts 12) The resources used

General information • That was 6 th presidential election in Russian Federation • That was the first election for a 6 years term • Only first voting took place (Putin received more than 50%+1 vote) • Vladimir Putin became a president for the third time with the result of 63. 6 % • The voter turnout was equal to 65. 34% • The election cost 10. 375 billion rubles

Candidates Candidate Nominated by: Percent of vote Vladimir Putin United Russia Party 63. 6 Gennadiy Zyuganov Communist Party of the Russian Federation 17. 18 Mikhail Prokhorov Self-nominated 7. 98 Vladimir Zhirinovskiy Liberal Democratic Party of Russia 6. 22 Sergey Mironov A Just Russia Party 3. 85

Candidates ruled ineligible • Only 3 out of 17 initial self-nominated candidates managed to submit signatures (2 millions). • Dmitry Mezentsev (governor of Irkutsk) and Grigoriy Yavlinskiy (head of Yabloko Party) were disqualified by Central Electoral Commission on the grounds that over 5% of their signatures were invalid.

Pre-election campaign • Communists claim, that Putin had an advantage in media, f. e. they said, he received 10 times more of broadcast time, than other 4 candidates (separately). • Debates on TV took place, as well as agitation meetings. • Putin had not take part in debates.

Election promises Each candidate had published his promises, he was going to execute in case, he became a president. Basically, all of them were talking about problems connected with: • Corruption • Depopulation • Pensions and other social security benefits • Relationships with other countries • Country-side • Innovations ① Putin’s program was represented in his 7 articles, it was nice worded, had many phrase- mongering statements, but less real promises. ① Zyuganov’s program was brief and intensional, as well as Putin he used fine words and phrases. ① Prokhorov’s program was mostly oriented on businessmen, had lots of numbers, but in some places was very general. ① Zhirinovskiy had 15 planks in his program, which were very simple and understandable. ① Mironov’s program was really huge, but detailled.

BUT… The analytics had counted the cost of that promises: Candidate Cost of his promises, trillions of rubles Mironov 124. 5 Zyuganov 110. 6 Zhirinovskiy 80. 9 Putin 9. 9 Prokhorov 7. 3

Social research figures According to different researches (dec’ 11 -feb’ 12), candidates should had been supported as follows:

Charges • Some physicists claim, that the machination with voter turnout took place. • Also, there is an opinion, that people, who were not able to leave their homes (old people usually) and people, who were connected to such institutions as army, medical institutions, prisons were made to vote for Putin. • Some candidates said, that the so-called “forming sociology” forms the public mind.

Charges

Political meetings Mostly took place in Moscow and St-Petersburg, also in Astrakhan’, Rostov-na-Donu and another cities (March. October). The most remarkable are: • “Bolotnaya case” - series of opposing meetings in May organized in Moscow (436 people arrested, 40 injured, 1 dead). • 4 th of May meeting in support of Putin in Manezhnaya sqr.

The foreign reaction The world wasn’t surprised by the Putin’s victory. Many foreign media used the words “king” and “coronation” in their articles about election. "There was no real competition and abuse of government resources ensured that the ultimate winner of the election was never in doubt. ” The Guardian “Putin was considered likely to win without vote-rigging, but the Kremlin had made it clear that it was determined to avoid a second round. That meant Putin needed more than 50 percent of the votes. ” The Washington Post “While Putin's victory seems certain, it is less clear what his return to Russia's most powerful office means for the country and its relationship with the world. ” CNN

The consequences • Vladimir Putin was elected, most believe that for both terms • Increase in distrust to the election • Strong protest movements in Russia and criticism from abroad took place • The system created by Putin earlier remained in force • Some of the pre-election promises were realized

Interesting facts • Every party, that has nominated a candidate received 20 rubles per vote. • More 400, 000 of users at the moment were registered in webvibory 2012. ru Many of them said, that were watching web cameras for a long time, because it was a nice alternative to reality show. • The fact V. Putin shed a tear in Manezhnaya sqr. hit the foreign headlines. Some people do not believe that happened upon emotions and claim, that it was a PR trick or, that botox injections began to flow.

The resources used • electoralgeography. com • snipview. com • vybory. izbirkom. ru • wikipedia. org • ria. ru • lawinrussia. ru • gazeta. ru • washingtonpost. com • theguardian. com • edition. cnn. com • aljazeera. com • er. ru • kprf. ru

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