| On September 20, leaders of the Moscow branches of YABLOKO,
CPRF, LDPR, Just Russia and the Patriots of Russia signed
Memorandum on Coordination of Actions in Organisation of Cross-Party
Work of Observers at the State Duma elections in 2011. Signing
of the document and a press-conference took place in the House
of Journalists in Moscow.
Representatives from five parties and not only parties as
had been announced earlier came to sign the memorandum. YABLOKO
was represented by Galina Mikhalyova, Deputy head of the Moscow
branch of the YABLOKO party; the CPRF was represented by Valery
Rashkin, First Secretary, the Moscow branch of the CPRF; LDPR
by Viktor Sobolyev, Coordinator, the Moscow branch of LDPR;
Just Russia by Alexander Ageyev, Chair of the Council, the
Moscow branch of the Just Russia party and Patriots of Russia
by Vladimir Kochetkov, Deputy head of the Moscow Committee
of the party.
The anchor of the press-conference called this an unprecedented
event when representatives of five Russian parties sign an
agreement of joint actions.
Galin Mikhalyova who was the first to take the floor corrected
the anchor saying that the first joint action by the parties
was their address to the Moscow Mayor and the Moscow City
Duma where the parties demanded to exclude Valentin Gorbunkov,
the present Chair of the Moscow Electoral Commission, from
the newly formed Commission. The parties blamed Gorbunov of
fraud during the Moscow City Duma elections of 2009.
Mikhalyova also added that before that the parties had also
joint their efforts in cross-observation of parliamentary
elections of 2003. Their joint complaint was adopted by the
European Court for Human Rights.
It was the YABLOKO party which initiated the joint Memorandum
and provided its premises under negotiations.
Mikhalyova called the partners to join their efforts so
that to obtain real and fraudulent results during voting.
Alexander Ageyev, the Just Russia party, supported her words
and proposed the negotiating partners to shake hands.
Vladimir Kochetkov from the Patriots of Russia called the
Memorandum the first stone in constructing of honest politics
in the country.
Viktor Sobolyev from LDPR said that the parties have to
spend half of their time on trying to get back their real
votes. He called all the Russian citizens to counteract election
fraud.
Valery Rashkin from the CPRF said that observers from the
five parties would work at all the polling stations (i.e.
over 3,000,000 polling stations in Moscow). The observers
would also video record all the process from demonstration
of empty ballot boxes to counting of the votes and announcing
the results of the voting.
See also:
Elections
to the State Duma 2011
The
Moscow Times. Yavlinsky to Run for Duma With Yabloko. September
12, 2011
Grigory
Yavlinsky's manifesto: Elections versus a Revolution. Press
Release, Video, September 11, 2011
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