On the Yabloko Party’s fundamental political position in the current conditions
Decision by the Federal Political Committee of Yabloko, adopted on 21.11.2024, published on 27.11.2024
Photo: Yabloko’s poster “Changes Will Come!”, September 2021 elections / Photo by Vitaly Ankov, RIA Novosti
The Federal Political Committee of the Yabloko Party considers it necessary to reiterate the most pressing key positions of the Party:
– Ceasefire. Exchange of prisoners and wounded according to “all for all” principle. Beginning of diplomatic negotiations.
– Release of all (about 800 people) political prisoners.
– Abrogation of repressive laws.
– Broad international negotiations to end the new Cold War and arms race. Renewal of nuclear deterrence treaties.
– Political reforms: regular change of power and fair elections.
– End of militarisation, development of a modern market economy, and inviolability of private property.
– Healthcare and education reform, equal opportunities for all.
Today’s state policy is, in our opinion, unacceptable in principle. Our country has an authoritarian system of power that is developing into a totalitarian one. The situation is extremely unsatisfactory: unlimited power of officials, international isolation and hostility with neighbours, lack of rights for people, a militarised economy that is unable to ensure the country’s competitiveness in the medium term, and especially in the long term, or high quality living standards for citizens.
The Yabloko party believes that a fundamentally different policy is necessary.
We stand for peace, people and their rights, respect for people, life without fear and repression, and a modern Russian state governed by the rule of law. We are for accessible high-quality medicine, science and education of high international standards, and a modern economy of growth.
Our firm convictions and programme goals are as follows:
- FREEDOM AND JUSTICE, HUMAN RIGHTS, DEMOCRACY AND LIFE WITHOUT FEAR
1) Political freedom and justice. Release of all political prisoners. Abolition of repressive laws that restrict human and civil rights and freedoms.
2) Judicial reform. Independence of the court, election of justices of the peace. Restoration of the independence of attorneys and the bar. Equality of the parties in court proceedings. Review and cancellation of unjust sentences. Prohibition of torture by law.
3) Alternation of power and fair elections. Separation of powers. Federalism and the development of real and financially backed local self-government.
4) Freedom of speech and creativity. Ban on all types of censorship, including hidden and political censorship in the media. Freedom to disseminate information.
5) Inviolability of privacy and confidentiality of correspondence. Ban on the use of digital technologies and personal data to the detriment of human freedoms and rights.
- MODERN ECONOMY
6) Inviolability of private property and the development of people’s capitalism. Manyfold increase of the circle of people owning private property, and shares of large enterprises. Development of mass entrepreneurship. Tax holidays for small businesses.
7) Reform of state corporations and a significant reduction in the share of the state-owned sector. Gradual elimination of the oligarchy, development of competition and, consequently, stabilization of prices. Transformation of state-owned corporations into joint-stock companies. Transparency and tenability of tariffs.
8) Knowledge-based economy. Tax and investment incentives for high-tech and knowledge-intensive industries. Substantial investments in education, research and development, mechanical engineering, information technologies, biotechnologies, and green energy. Increasing funding of science to 5% of GDP.
9) Combating corruption.
10) The Housing-Land-Roads Programme. Free transfer of land plots to citizens for individual housing construction. Building the necessary communications, road and social infrastructure at expense of the state.
- IMPROVING LIVING STANDARDS
11) Effective healthcare. Increasing healthcare funding to 8% of GDP.
12) Growth of people’s incomes. Individual savings accounts for citizens to credit part of the income from the natural resources exports. A moratorium on tax increases for five years.
13) Affordable modern education. Increasing spending on education to 6% of GDP. Raising teachers’ salaries to 200% of the regional average.
14) Security and humanism. Humanisation of law enforcement agencies. Adoption of a law on guarantees of equal rights and opportunities for men and women. Adoption of a law against domestic violence.
- FOREIGN POLICY: PARTNERS, NOT ENEMIES
15) Cessation of hostilities. Peaceful foreign policy in the context of growing world disorder.
16) Prevention of nuclear war.
17) New international security agreements with the European Union and the United States. Restoration of mutually beneficial trade relations.
The key slogan of the party is “Freedom and Justice”. This means implementation of universal, humanistic, European values in policies, and consolidation of a caring attitude towards people and the world around us as the basis of policy. This is the essence of our political programme.
Russia needs changes. The Yabloko Party strives to ensure that our country has a prosperous future in the 21st century, and that it becomes free and prosperous.
Grigory Yavlinsky,
Chairman of the Yabloko Federal Political Committee
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