Why patriots are dangerous for the authorities in the elections – 2024 and what are their chances, explained the head of the Center for the Development of Regional Policy, according to the TELMENEWS.RU news agency
Political scientist Ilya Grashchenkov assessed the chances of the leaders of the Patriots in the upcoming presidential elections. Yevgeny Prigozhin is believed to have started the campaign – a website and videos have recently appeared on the web calling for the election of the PMC leader as President of Russia. However, experts assess the campaign as the intrigues of enemies who took advantage of the public conflict between Prigozhin and the Ministry of Defense.
The phenomenon of Russian politics, the head of Wagner’s PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has truly become the voice of truth from the trenches, admits Grashchenkov. He managed to create a juicy and noisy image and “talentedly master the niche of angry patriots”, but his opponent Strelkov is more likely to shoot at the “premium elite audience”, believes the political scientist. At the same time, Grashchenkov believes that the hypothetical chauvinist party has no real electoral support.
“This is a noisy but compact group of subscribers of military correspondents, which in total is less than 1%,” he says and cites as an example the audiences of the Just Russia – For Truth party, which, according to him, fell after Wagner’s hammer.
Despite this, Prigozhin and Strelkov may pose a danger in the 2024 elections, Ilya Grashchenkov believes: “Despite all their declared loyalty, they still remain ‘in their minds’. A likely candidate for the chauvinist forces in the 2024 elections could be the politician and writer Zakhar Prilepin, he thinks.
Grashchenkov pointed out that the main problem for patriots is interaction with Russian elites, as they generally remain Western-oriented.
“For them, the pragmatic Prigogine is just closer, even if we reject it aesthetically. By the way, maybe that’s why the owner of the PMC now and then turns off his anger mode and speaks quite professionally about possible problems for the country in the future, thus capturing the mood that was heard in the telephone conversation of another Prigozhin, “notes the political scientist.
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