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The Pensioners’ Party joins YABLOKO

Press Release,
February 20, 2010

Today, on February 20, All-Russia congress of the Elder Generation public association formed on the basis of the former Pensioners’ Party took place in YABLOKO’s office in Moscow. The congress adopted a decision of a merger with YABLOKO via creation of the Russia’s Pensioners faction in YABLOKO.

Delegates from 24 Russia’s regions participated in the congress: 22 delegates voted for the merger and 2 abstained. The Elder Generation has branches in 32 Russia’s regions.

The leader of the Elder Generation Alexei Borschenko called YABLOKO “the only party which can at present protect the interests of Russia’s pensioners”. He also reiterated that pensioners constitute about one third of Russia’s population.

Head of the Tula branch of the Elder Generation Anatoly Plesnyak told that the Elder Generation has already blocked with YABLOKO for the March elections to the regional parliament. Plesnyak also spoke about positive cooperation experience of the Elder Generation and YABLOKO in Tula. Thus, in summer 2009, YABLOKO and the Elder Generation conducted a meeting against corruption in the housing and utilities sector which resulted in dismissal of the city mayor.

Leader of the Sverdlovsk branch of the Elder Generation and deputy of the Sverdlovsk City Duma Sergei Lazaryev noted that YABLOKO is the only party in the present Russia which is capable of protection of democratic values and federalism. Lazaryev is number two in YABLOKO’s list in the March elections to the Sverdlovsk Region Duma.

“Today we have witnessed an important event – a merger of two political forces,” YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin noted at the press briefing. According to Mitrokhin, the merger allowed to obtain “a powerful instrument for protection of pensioners’ rights.”


Mitrokhin also noted that “YABLOKO has always had a goal to conduct a pension reform which would allow to raise the pension system to a high level.” “Joining our efforts with the people who devoted their political activities to the solution of this problem we shall be able to solve the problems of Russia’s pensioners,” Mitrokhin said.

 



Press Rlease,
February 20, 2010