Another step towards dictatorship. Yabloko’s statement on depriving “foreign agents” of the right to be elected
Statement by the Yabloko party, 6.05.2024
Photo by the Yabloko Press Service
The State Duma has approved amendments stipulating that elected deputies included in the foreign agents register by decision of the Ministry of Justice will be deprived of their deputy mandate.
Thus, decisions of the executive body, taken extrajudicially and not for any offense, but only for some allegedly declared “foreign influence”, – in fact, for the deputy’s disagreement with the official position, will cancel the results of the people’s will in the elections.
This crosses out Article 3 of the Constitution, which states that the people are the only source of power.
The Yabloko party states that the approved amendments are another step towards establishing a dictatorship in the country and calls for preventing their final adoption.
Nikolai Rybakov,
Yabloko Chairman
Posted: May 14th, 2024 under Elections, Governance, Human Rights.