Sergei Mitrokhin and Eugeni Bunimovich topped the list of
candidates from the YABLOKO party to the Moscow City Duma
election. The
list of candidates was approved by the conference of the
Moscow branch of YABLOKO on July 22.
The list includes 17 regional groups; 49 candidates from
the total list are YABLOKO members and 21 non-members. Women
constitute about 43% of YABLOKO's the candidates (21 women
and 28 men).
The regional groups are topped by Alexei Arbatov, head of
the International Security Centre of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, Anatoli Rabinovich, head of the sub-committee on
development of collective investments market of the Trade
and Commerce Chamber of the RF, human rights activists Andrei
Babushkin and Valery Borschyov, Roman Zhigulsky, leader of
the For the Fair Market movement, Alexei Yablokov, ecologist
and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Dmitry Katayev,
member of the Moscow Political Bureau of the Solidarity movement,
ex-deputy of he Moscow City Council Alexander Melnikov, Zoya
Shargatova, head of the Club of Municipal Assemblies Deputies,
Semyon Burd, member of the Youth Chamber at the Moscow City
Duma, and leaders of public initiative groups.
The conference also approved the election programme of the
party The City Comfortable for Living. The programme comprises
ten sections and in addition to description of the problems
and the ways of their solution includes a report by the YABLOKO
faction on its performance in the Moscow City Duma for the
period 2005-2009.
“Our real deeds in Moscow represent our competitive advantage
at the election compared to those who will only throw promises
[before the election] and forget about them two days after
the election,” said Sergei Mitrokhin commenting on YABLOKO’s
programme.
See also:
Elections
Elections to the Moscow City Duma, 2009
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