| St. Petersburg. June 25, 2002. "It is difficult to talk
about a lack of understanding of the President's ideas by the
political elites, said Mikhail Amosov, Chairman of the St. Petersburg
branch of YABLOKO to a Rosbalt correspondent.— This immediately
leads to the following question "what is a political elite?"
"If we speak about political parties, there are parties
that anticipate the President's ideas - they are YABLOKO and the
Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS). If we speak about communists
and some of the centrist groups backed by bureaucracy, they are
slow to react to the President's ideas and even more resist change,"
noted the leader of St.Petersburg YABLOKO. According to Amosov,
"this gap is not vital, and does not present any serious
danger to the President." |
