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strana.ru
June 25, 2002
"For the first time, the authorities are going to
the polls as masters of the situation rather than the party of power": Gleb
Pavlovsky
"We will (soon) witness the formation of a party of ruling authorities, and
perhaps even two parties with right- and left-centrist leaders … " Sergei
Markov
The end of the political season that we usually associate with mid-summer is seen as the turning point from Vladimir Putin's post-election policy to the pre-election phase, Sergei Markov, the Director of the Institute for Political Studies, pointed out at the opening of the roundtable session.
In the near future, "we will witness the formation of a party of ruling authorities, and perhaps even two parties with right- and left-centrist leaders that will run in the coming general elections," Markov pointed out.
The main result of the past year, in his opinion, is that for the first time since 1945, Russia now has a chance to occupy a place in the world that it deserves.
"What we have witnessed is the unprecedented growth of Putin's influence on the foreign political arena," Markov believes, "however, the only question is: did Russia manage to achieve the same thing?"
"Putin has obviously emerged the winner in "the period of his formation'," Gleb Pavlovsky, the head of the Foundation for Effective Policy, remarked in his summing up the results of the first half of Putin's first term as president. In Pavlovsky's opinion, the fact that Putin has emerged the winner reconciles and equalizes those who are in opposition to and those who support the ruling authorities.
For the first time, Pavlovsky pointed out, the authorities are going to the polls as the masters of the situation rather than the party of power.
All the potential participants in the coming elections are counting on finding a seat for themselves in that "electoral bus" as the ruling authorities are seen.
In Pavlovsky's opinion, herein lies one of the main dangers for the system that Vladimir Putin has created. The pre-election situation (in Russia) is not conducive to improving the quality of said system.
Paradoxical as it may seem, the stability and predictability that materialized due to Putin's system - as well as the pre-election situation on the threshold of the upcoming general and presidential elections - increase the influence of "radical network systems" that occupy an extremely rightist or leftist position in the political spectrum, Pavlovsky explained.
"Running in the coming elections," Pavlovsky argues, "is also seen as a ticket to that room were "the successor' will be chosen. That is one of the specific features of the upcoming pre-election campaign that is attracting a wide range of participants," Pavlovsky declared.
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