| The 17th congress of the YABLOKO Party ended in the Moscow
Region on Sunday. The party's congress approved a new reading
of the programme documents of the party, namely "The
Democratic Manifesto" and the programme "Russia
Demands Changes!" the party was running with at the latest
State Duma elections. Both the documents did not undergo any
major changes but were only modernised and adapted to the
present moment.
The YABLOKO Party named among its new tasks the fight for
the abolishment of the tough amendments on the law on rallies,
real gubernatorial elections without any artificial restricting
filters and a range of initiatives for judicial reform.
The Democratic Manifesto was also changed. This document
contains the basic values and the tasks of the party. In the
variant of 2006 the Manifesto contained the chapter entitled
"Authoritarian temptation as the way to the third world,"
in which YABLOKO warned that "the attempts to build an
authoritarian system in Russia lead the country to a bureaucratic
stagnation." In the new variant of the Manifesto this
chapter was replaced by another one "The recent decade
as an authoritarian deadlock."
"We are saying that the authoritarian temptation is
absolutely obvious for us and warned about this. Today we
realised that this is not a temptation, but unfortunately
it is a forecast of our party that came true," the YABLOKO
leader Sergei Mitrokhin affirmed in his speech on the amendment.
The new variant of the Manifesto runs that the regime that
has been formed in the country is parasitic and can neither
create conditions for Russias development, nor change in
the changing world.
Grigory Yavlinsky, YABLOKO founder and member of the YABLOKO
Political Committee, noted that YABLOKO sees and understands
the perspective.
He also said that the goal of all the democrats should be
to implement the dreams of the nation: more justice, more
kindness and respect to each other and more truth.
According to Yavlinsky, the present government was not going
to do it because this did not comply with its interests. So
in the current conditions the partys task should be to formulate
a full-fledged alternative: an alternative leader, team,
political and economic programme and a moral alternative.
Yavlinsky also added that "mere criticism of the authorities
is not politics, but just journalism.
The politician noted that YABLOKO would seek for new elections
in the State Duma, the Moscow City Duma and probably the St.
Petersburg Legislative Assembly.
He also urged "to fill with sense the whole protesting
potential and protesting moods, which had emerged in the country
over objective reasons."
"Having such clear goals and tasks, we have all grounds
to believe ourselves as the leaders of the Russia democratic
movement. Our task is to unite all democratic forces and implement
these programmes," Yavlinsky concluded.
See also:
17th
Congress of YABLOKO
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