The shortlist for the RASO Political Prize "Hamburg Account" has been published.
Let me comment on our rationale for choosing the best of the best:.
- "The best campaigns of parliamentary parties" - the shortlist included parties ("United Russia", LDPR, "New People") that improved their results compared to the 2021 State Duma elections.
- Among the non-parliamentary parties we took the two best results.
- In the evaluation of territorial groups of parties, not only the high percentage was evaluated, but also the level of competition in a certain region. In the defense, which begins today, the teams' task will be to demonstrate the technology and creativity of the campaigns.
- The same logic applies to constituencies with one mandate.
The list does not include campaigns with clear favorites who won by large margins.
We only take campaigns where the result could have been different.
And the gap of a few percent between the winner and the nearest competitor is for us an indication of a real struggle.
- In the "Politician of the Year" nomination are Dmitry Medvedev, the leader of the party that won the elections, who managed to reboot his image and find a language in communication with new generations of voters, the Minister of Sports and the chairman of the Russian Olympic Committee, Mikhail Dagetyarev, who promised a breakthrough in blocking the international competition of the athletes and the international presidents of the Easter Prime Minister and the distant president. Federal District Oleg Kozhmyaku, who quite rightly moved to a new stage in his unique career (governor in four regions), Leonid Slutsky, who managed to preserve the LDPR after the death of Vladimir Zhirinovsky and ensure a better result in the State Duma elections than in 2021.
- The "Failure of the Year" nomination features the "Just Russia" party that entered the State Duma "on the banner", former State Duma deputy Rifat Sheikhotdinov, who lost the party, and the archaic and ineffective system of collecting and verifying signatures of self-nominated candidates.
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The RASO Political Prize "Hamburg Account" was established in 2016.