Communist Victory in Volgograd Mayoral Election
This past weekend in the Volgograd mayor’s election the Communist candidate, Roman Grebennikov won in a decisive victory over the United Russia candidate, Vasily Galushkin. That makes Grebennikov the first Communist mayor of a major city for the first time in a long time, as well as being the youngest mayor of a regional capital city.
Preliminary results showed on Monday morning that the Communist party received 32.47 percent of the vote to United Russia’s 20.35 percent. Approximately 38 percent of the 762,000 registered Volgograd voters made it out for the election Sunday.
Grebennikov said his first goal was to work with the United Russia party. He plans to look at the mayoral position as an administrative one in which he would first look long and hard at the city’s property records to begin his management of Volgograd.
The Communist party is enjoying the victory and show of public support while United Russia has held the position that all the candidates in the election have agendas that are the same as their party and have pledged to work with everyone who wants to tackle the problems of the city and its million inhabitants.
