YABLOKO leader
proposed a strategy for the opposition at the rally in Bolotnaya
Square, Moscow
Press Release
May 6,
2013
Speaking at a mass rally in Bolotnaya Square, Moscow, YABLOKO
leader Sergei Mitrokhin urged democratically minded people
to go to polling stations and make the elections honest, rather
than ask the authorities for fair and honest elections.
"There is nothing to discuss with these authorities,
they resist a dialogue, it is absolutely hopeless to ask something
from the authorities, to demand something from them, it is
even pointless to scold or criticize them. The only thing
that makes sense is to change the government. It's time to
change the power and take it into our hands," said Sergei
Mitrokhin.
Photo from Twitter
"We have to go where the power is formed, more precisely
where it is stolen from the people. We have to go to the polling
stations, and there we should seize the thieves stealing the
power from the people by the hand, " YABLOKO leader noted.
He also called the opposition to unite by the next elections
gubernatorial elections in the Moscow Region this fall and
elections to the Moscow City Duma in September 2014.
According to Mitrokhin, a single from the opposition in the
gubernatorial elections in the Moscow Region should be Gennady
Gudkov [ousted from the Duma and the Just Russia party for
his oppositional views].
Mitrokhin also said that a single list of candidates from
the opposition should be nominated for the Moscow City Duma
elections as well. "Let's see if all of us who come here,
come to the polls and support the single list of candidates
from the opposition, then election fraud will be impossible.
Then we will throw all these thieves first from Moscow and
later from all over Russia," Mitrokhin remarked.
