| “There is nothing unexpected in the initiative of the
tandem,” said YABLOKO’s leader Sergei Mitrokhin commenting
on the news from the congress of the ruling United Russia
party that President Medvedev is going to head this party
at the parliamentary election in December 2011 and Prime Minister
Putin will run at the presidential elections in 2012.
“Now the citizens of Russia should say whether they agree
to bear what has been going on in the country for another
12 years,” Mitrokhin noted. “This answer should be given at
election of the State Duma and parliamentary elections.” He
said.
“President’s statements that on Prime Minister’s post he
will engage in modernisation are hard to believe. As modernisation
means renewal of governing rather than rotation in the tandem,”
Mitrokhin added.
According to Mitrokhin, “this joint proposal by Putin, Medvedev
and the United Russia party is “a way towards a new stagnation
rather than modernisation, and this stagnation may lead the
country to the same deplorable outcome like the stagnation
of Leonid Brezhnev’s era ended for the USSR.”
See also:
Grigory Yavlinsky
on the initiative of Putin-Medvedev’s tandem.
Press Release, September 24,,
2011
Elections
to the State Duma 2011
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