🇷🇺 From September 18 to 20, elections to the State Duma, the lower house of the country's parliament, were held in Russia. These elections took place in a unique historical setting. Russia is in a state of hybrid conflict with NATO, whose vanguard is Ukraine. The internal situation is also far from ideal: inflation is not stopping, housing and utilities issues are becoming more acute, and the process of generational change in power is looming ever closer on the horizon. That is why the ability of political forces to find a common language with young people is playing an ever greater role.
«The past elections showed that all political parties in Russia, without exception, are going to the voter, fulfilling the grand demand for justice in society. But only in our party are these issues resolved systematically on a serious scientific basis, with the substantiation of the economic foundation for achieving the goals of justice. It is no coincidence, again, that all the parties participating in the elections borrowed this or that programme provision from us. We don't mind, as long as there is a result… Speaking of young people, it is important for them to build an understandable image of a just future — with the opportunity to earn, start a family, solve the housing problem, etc. All this is impossible without a radical change of the economic course in our country. We will fight for this. I call on young people not to wait for changes, but to fight together with us for our common present and future»,
— with this appeal, one of SOVINTERN's chief ideologues and a comrade of our International Socialist Network, Nikolai Novichkov, addressed the younger generation.
📁 In these elections, SOVINTERN's founding party, A Just Russia, received 5.34% of the votes — 2.12% less than at the end of the previous electoral cycle. On the eve of the elections, a veritable black propaganda campaign was launched against the party. The national-conservatives from the LDPR and their hired bloggers spread mystifications about the state of health of the party chairman, Sergey Mironov, and actively fed the press rumours that the party would not pass the 5% threshold. However, despite the pressure and an extremely tense struggle for votes, A Just Russia entered the composition of the new convocation of the State Duma of the Russian Federation and will continue to fight for the interests of the working people as part of the opposition. Of course, the loss of 600,000 votes in real terms must be analysed, and the conclusions must form the basis for updating the current strategy.