| The YABLOKO party is preparing to parliamentary and presidential
elections that may take place any moment. Such a statement
was made by party founder Grigory Yavlinsky at YABLOKO’s congress
held in the Moscow region this weekend.
“We fully admit that new elections may be held not in five
or four years, but much earlier, and this period will depend
on the moods of the people and their attitude to what has
been happening in the country,” said Grigory Yavlinsky.
He also stressed that neither his presidential campaign,
nor YABLOKO’s fight for creation of the party faction in the
State Duma did not stop. “In the recent parliamentary elections,
even according to the official figures, we received a mandate
from the 2.5 million voters who do not want to live in lawlessness,
corruption and continuous lies, and we must live up to this
mandate," Yavlinsky concluded.
YABLOKO founder believes that the society should prepare
for new elections. He said that the nascent protest movement
was very important and supported it. Yavlinsky sees his task
in maintaining the protest peaceful and fill it with a political
meaning.
“We have been working for a very long time so that to a considerable
part of the society would finally wake up and, as citizens,
engage in the life of their country,” said Grigory Yavlinsky.
He also noted that it was public outrage with the fraud of
YABLOKO’s votes at the elections that became “a motor of the
nascent protest movement”.
According to Yavlinsky, another focus of YABLOKO’s work should
be putting pressure on the government so that the next elections
were held in different conditions. “We will prepare and win
over Vladimir Putin at any elections, whenever they may take
place,” said YABLOKO’s founder.
See also:
17th
Congress of YABLOKO
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