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Radio Mayak, September 15, 2004

Sergei Ivanenko: three reasons are currently hampering the formation of fully-fledged independent parties

Anchor: The President's proposal to create a single system of responsible power continues to be debated by society. The active involvement of all social groups in the life of the country and combating of terrorism is only possible if there is a developed multiparty system.

The Deputy Chairman of the YABLOKO party, Sergei Ivanenko, said this to Mayak today. He said that the formation of fully-fledged, genuine people's parties was being hampered by at least three factors.

Ivanenko: First, we have no independent judicial system, legal system. There is no arbiter to whom one can come and dispute something. All disputes are decided to the benefit of the authorities. Second, the election system is not controlled, elections are manipulated, from the point of view of the media, by simple administrative manipulations in provinces when ballot papers are discarded and reports are rigged. Third, there are no independent sources of financing. What does an independent party mean? It means that it does not depend on either the authorities or tycoons. But there are practically no parties of this kind in Russia now.

Therefore, in these conditions I think that the President must preoccupy himself with this issue. He must take create the necessary conditions for independent parties, instead of setting up a one-party system as he is doing today. Nobody is asking the Kremlin for any support: we are simply asking for the creation of normal conditions: then parties will develop and will win in competition.

 

Radio Mayak, September 15, 2004

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