YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin handed
to Dmitry Medvedev YABLOKO’s anti-crisis programme “Land-Housing-Roads”
and proposals on the reform of the electoral system during
the meeting of party leaders with President of Russia in Sochi.
Mitrokhin also handed to the President letters from the citizens
from 12 Russian regions.
Giving to the President 190-pages volume of the programme
“Land-Housing-Roads” Sergei Mitrokhin noted that the programme
contains a kind of “insurance from the coming crisis”.
“From the economic point of view, the programme is targeted
at creation of conditions for unprecedented growth of domestic
demand,” Mitrokhin said. This envisages gratuitous and mass-scale
transfer of [federal] lands to the citizens under their housing
construction and development of infrastructure (water, gas
and electricity supply), as well as construction of roads
at the expense of the federal budget, i.e. the reserves accumulated
for the recent years due to high oil and gas prices.
“The effect from this programme can not be overestimated
from both social and political aspects. A possibility to obtain
a plot of land free of charge from the state, e.g. 50 hundred
square meters of land and built 150 square meters of housing
there for half of its cost, - this will constitute a real
breakthrough from Russia’s economic stagnation,” he added.
Mitrokhin also noted that, according to the estimates of
party experts, implementation of such a programme will create
at least 10 mln additional jobs and will ensure economic growth
by at least 3.5 percentage points.
“We can state that we have no other programme with the same
economic effect in Russia at present,” Mitrokhin concluded.
Speaking about the forthcoming parliamentary elections Sergei
Mitrokhin demanded that a list of violations resulting in
annulling of the results of voting at a polling state should
be legislatively determined, also criminal persecutions of
should be envisaged for electoral commissions members for
such violations. According to Mitrokhin, such violations include
ousting of observers from the polling state before or during
counting of the votes, putting obstacles to observers visual
control over counting of the votes, non-provision of protocols
of voting after counting of the votes (before submitting these
data to the commission of a higher rank) and discrepancy between
the number of ballots of those who voted at home and the real
number of ballots in the ballot boxes. Mitrokhin also noted
that a right of a citizen to verify his vote in the voters
list should be legally ensured.
“The two latter proposals had a positive reaction from the
President, he promised to study them carefully,” Mitrokhin
said.
As regards the reform of the electoral system YABLOKO proposed
to bring back elections of governors, transfer to direct elections
of Federation Council members by the citizens, reduce the
barrier to the State Duma to five per cent, abolish the so-called
“locomotives” in the election lists (Ed. Top figures in party
lists who are normally famous in the country and ensure that
their party gets in the Duma after which they refuse their
ballots in favour of unknown party functionaries), abolish
collection of signatures for registration in the election
campaign, as well as form electoral commissions basing on
party lists only.
In addition YABLOKO’s leader handed to the President letters
from citizens from 12 regions: Adygeya, Tyva, Udmurtia, and
Moscow, Nizhni Novgorod, Tver, Kaluga, Rostov, Orenburg, Novosibirsk
and Sakhalin regions, and the Krasnodar Area.
YABLOKO’s leader also brought the attention of the President
to the environmental problems of the Black Sea coast. Thus,
the residents of Tuapse are concerned by construction and
exploitation of bulk terminal for chemical ferterlisers and
oil products. Sergei Mitrokhin also informed Dmitry Medvedev
of the government’s plans to begin large-scale extraction
of sand for construction of Olympic objects at the sea shelf
by Anapa and Tamansky peninsular. These works will inevitably
lead to elimination of a unique children’s resort in Anapa
and will ruin the eco systems in the North-West part of the
Black Sea, Mitrokhin added.
See also:
Sergei
Mitrokhin proposed to the Russian President to modernise the
Russian parliament. Press Release, August 29, 2011.
State Duma
elections 2011
Modernisation
in Russia
Protection
of Environment
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