Over 12,000 folks took half this week in a first-of-its-kind digital political rally organized by the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) on the event of Labor Day.
Members of the social gathering erected a monument to its founder, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who handed away final 12 months, on a server of the favored Minecraft recreation and known as on their supporters to just about collect close to it on Monday.
“The virtual rally announced earlier by the LDPR in the Minecraft game at the monument to Vladimir Zhirinovsky, which was built for the politician’s birthday on April 25, took place. Moreover, the organizers themselves obviously did not expect such interest from gamers,” the LDPR’s press service mentioned, including that after the variety of requests to affix exceeded 12,000, the brink of the server’s functionality was reached and the rally was reduce quick as a consequence of a server crash.
A member of the Russian parliament from the LDPR, Andrey Svintsov, mentioned it was simply the primary occasion of this type, and the social gathering plans to make use of Minecraft and different recreation platforms for communications with voters and attracting new supporters.
He mentioned the LDPR is turning into “the first digital party of Russia.”
Source: www.anews.com.tr