| YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin said that Russian President
should order a sociological survey before appointing a new
Mayor of Moscow. The survey will show the attitude of the
Muscovites to the candidates proposed by the progovernmental
United Russia party.
“The present practices of appointing regional heads demonstrated
its complete failure. After the dismissal of Yuri Luzhkov
the same party bearing full responsibility for Luzhkov’s policies
proposes a new candidacy,” Mitrokhin noted.
Sergei Mitrokhin called such situation “absurd”. YABLOKO’s
leader proposed that the candidates nominated by the United
Russia should answer the following questions by the Muscovites:
- whether they are going to conduct a corruption check of
the bureaucrats from the central apparat and all the departments
of the Moscow government,
- whether they are going to preserve social guarantees to
the pensioners and the poor,
- whether the new Mayor will be ready to send the adopted
and much disputed General Plan of Moscow Development confirming
the previous practices of the city development to revision,
- whether the new mayor will return to the Moscow City Duma
and municipal councils their controlling proxies they lost
under Luzhkov,
- whether the new mayor is going to release economic and financial
data on all the city monopolies, as well as other questions.
After the candidates answer all these questions it will be
reasonable to conduct a sociological survey which will show
the preference of the Muscovites.
See also:
For
the return of gubernatorial elections
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