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Endorsed by the Yabloko General Council last weekend, the charter is to
be discussed by the Russian Democratic Assembly set up at the initiative of
Grigori Yavlinsky's supporters. The charter comments sadly on the "declining
confidence in democratic values and free market reforms" caused by "mistakes
and sometimes crimes committed under the guise of democratic and reformist
slogans by people calling themselves democrats and reformers." The charter
concludes that "trust in the new alliance of democrats will be minimal if
the coalition is headed by the same people who supported the war in
Chechnya, carried out criminal privatization, built state financial
pyramids, and initiated fiscal defaults."
In other words, a coalition between Yabloko and the Union of Right-Wing
Forces is impossible as long as the list of leaders of the right includes
Yegor Gaidar and Anatoly Chubais (criminal privatisation), Boris Nemtsov
(war in Chechnya, he supported it but with reservations), and Sergei
Kirienko (fiscal defaults). But since this is almost the whole list of Union
leaders, the question of a coalition between Yabloko and the Union of
Right-Wing Forces may beconsidered closed.
At a press conference yesterday, Yavlinsky answered some questions on
Yabloko's electoral campaign in 2003. According to the party leader, Yabloko
will construct its campaign around the thesis, advocating the need to
"abolish the economic system built under Yeltsin and advanced over the past
three years", as it was leading the country to "demodernisation".
It isn't hard to see that the thesis advocated by Yavlinsky is almost
a carbon copy of the central idea of the Communist Party. And since
communists did not have anything to do with the evil things mentioned here,
it becomes absolutely clear that only the communists are worthy of becoming
Yavlinsky's allies.
See also:
YABLOKO and SPS
State Duma elections 2003
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