YABLOKO conducted pickets under campaign “Let’s return mayoral elections in Nizhny Novgorod”
Press Release, November 25, 2013
The campaign under the slogan “Let’s return mayoral elections in Nizhny Novgorod” has started. YABLOKO representatives take part in the campaign.
The Mayor of Nizhny Novgorod is elected by the deputies of the City Duma since 2003. But according to the survey, 85 percent of the Nizhny Novgorod residents support the direct mayoral elections.
An initiative group on returning the direct mayoral elections was founded in October 2013. YABLOKO representatives and Chair of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of YABLOKO Valery Terekhov entered the group.
The activists conduct pickets to inform the citizens about their initiative, give out leaflets, deliver literature to the mail boxes. The initiative group plans to start collecting signatures on conducting a referendum soon.
Posted: November 25th, 2013 under Elections.