Yabloko’s Boris Vishnevsky had his microphone turned off after speaking about the “special military operation” at the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly
Press Release, 1.11.2023
Photo: Boris Vishnevsky / Photo by the Press Service of the St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly
Speaking on October 31 at the meeting of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, deputy Boris Vishnevsky explained why the Yabloko faction could not support the draft city budget of St.Petersurg for 2024.
Vishnevsky said that the reasons of voting against the draft city budget were the reduction of funding for social support for citizens and the failure to solve the problem of people on the housing waiting list who had been waiting for housing for more than 40 years. “But 290 million roubles are allocated for political instructors in schools,” Vishnevsky added.
Boris Vishnevsky had to finish his speech with the microphone turned off after the beginning of the following phrase:
“The Yabloko party advocates a ceasefire as soon as possible and the start of negotiations, and the presented draft budget assumes the continuation of the special military operation and financing from the city budget of expenses directly or indirectly related to the special military operation. All this does not allow us to support the budget in the first reading.”
BORIS VISHNEVSKY
is Deputy Chairman of the Yabloko Party, member of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee and Bureau, and an MP of the Yabloko faction in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg
Posted: November 1st, 2023 under Freedom of Speech, Governance, Human Rights, Social Policies, YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power, YABLOKO's faction in St.Petersburg Legislative Assembly, Yabloko's Regional Branches.