Russians are again being forced to vote in United Russia primaries.
Regions have once again begun pressuring voters to participate in the United Russia party's primary voting. This will select candidates for the nationwide elections. Public sector employees and students are subject to the heaviest pressure year after year.
"The chair of the parents' committee sent me a request to participate," "At KAMAZ, they gave me a form with step-by-step instructions on how to register through government services and provide consent to the processing of personal data for United Russia," "Motor plant in Yaroslavl, GAZ Group. At the last election, I checked the box and sent a photo to the shop foreman. No photo, no incentive, bonus, or other benefits," write people.
This year, reports are coming from Krasnoyarsk Krai, Sverdlovsk, Kaliningrad, Penza, Buryatia, and St. Petersburg. The most common threats are dismissal and loss of bonuses. In the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Recommend complain about the employer and insist that such actions on his part fall under Article 141 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
Students are also being coerced. Leonid Spirin, editor-in-chief of the student publication Groza, told NeMoskva that signals are already coming in, "it's the same thing every election." For now recorded There have been cases of coercion at the Omsk State Pedagogical Institute. At UrFU, Rector Ilya Obabkov has applied to participate in the United Russia primaries—he wants to run for a seat in the regional legislative assembly. However, there have been no signals from students so far. In any case, the education law prohibits political campaigning, and it is illegal.
"If you want to sort things out internally first, the complaint goes to the rector. But you can also go straight to the prosecutor's office," Spirin explained.
Last year, the organization "At Your Own Will" helped those who were forced to vote at work. But the project ceased operations on April 9. They developed a memo For employees of budgetary organizations, it can help today.
