The Enforced Correction
The regions that failed to meet United Russia’s voting target at the parliamentary elections will have to answer for it. The mayor of Udmurtia's Glazov-town, where United Russia got no more than 41 percent, has stepped down already.
United Russia’s victory at the recent parliamentary elections wasn’t particularly landslide in Moscow (54.15 percent of votes), St. Petersburg (50.33 percent), the Nenets Autonomous Area (48.78 percent), Primorie (54.87 percent) and Altai (54.69 percent) Districts. The Yaroslavl region had just 53.17 percent, Smolensk region provided no more than 53.92 percent, Murmansk region voted for United Russia by 55.11 percent, Magadan region and Kirov region had 55.24 percent and 55.38 percent respectively.
In Udmurtia, they have punished the guilty already. Glazov Mayor Vladimir Pereshein had to file resignation after the chief of republic, Alexander Volkov, expressed his disappointment over the outcome of elections. United Russia was backed up by no more than 41 percent in Glazov.
But the analysts don’t forecast the comb-out of significant extent for governors of the guilty regions. There are not so many of them, said Rostislav Turovsky, who is the general director at the regional analysis agency. Besides, Moscow Governor Yuri Luzhkov, St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matvienko and Moscow Region’s chief Boris Gromov are on the list. “For them, the decisions aren’t taken by a separate campaign,” Turovsky specified.
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