【转载】俄中央选举委员会主席：俄罗斯不需要西方民主，普京将超90%得票当选

新闻来源俄罗斯反对派媒体meduza

Democracy in the West is “rule not by the majority, but by the minority,” says the chair of Russia’s Central Election Commission Ella Pamfilova. She adds that Russia doesn’t need democracy in the Westerns sense of the word.

Pamfilova’s remarks came during a presentation at the Territoriya Smyslov (Territory of Meaning) forum, a yearly educational event, after a participant asked her to comment on presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov’s recent remarks on democracy.

In early August, the Kremlin spokesperson told the New York Times that “our presidential election is not really democracy, it is costly bureaucracy” and that current president Vladimir Putin will win the 2024 election with “more than 90 percent of the vote.”

“For me, democracy is just a mechanism, a method for organizing power through elections. What happens now in the West is democracy not as the rule of the majority, but the rule of the minority. I would agree with Dmitry Sergeyevich [Peskov], we definitely don’t have the kind of system that exists in the West and we don’t need it,” Pamfilova said in response to the question.

The head of the Central Election Commission also called Western democracy “degraded.” She said that the Central Election Commission is “one of the most effective departments” in the country. “We solve new problems as efficiently as possible with minimal costs. I think many departments should take a lesson from us,” she added.

In a July meeting with Putin Pamfilova called the 2024 presidential election “our electoral front line.”


在Territoriya Smyslov论坛中，俄罗斯中央选举委员会主席Ella Pamfilova回应了8月初佩斯科夫回答纽约时报的发言，佩斯科夫在发言中称俄罗斯的总统选举并非实际的民主，（而民选）是昂贵的官僚主义，普京将在2024的总统选举中以超过90%的得票率当选。

Pamfilova则表示她认同佩斯科夫的发言，她说西方民主并非多数人而是少数人政治，俄罗斯不需要西方民主。此外她还称中央选举委员会是俄罗斯效率最高的部门之一，他们能以最小代价解决问题，是其他部门应当学习的对象。（只是不知她的言外之意在暗指哪些部门，或许是FSB？）

个人认为佩斯科夫还是保守了，应该熟读治国理政，帮助普京总统建立「没有，没有，没有，通过」的全过程民主。