YABLOKO boycotted the appointment of City Manager in Pervouralsk
Press release, 01.11.2013
Yesterday the Pervouralsk City Duma elected director of pipe plant Alexei Dronov City Manager of Pervouralsk. The YABLOKO faction, after consultation with the voters, decided not to take part in the meeting and continue insisting on direct elections of the mayor. YABLOKO believes that the appointed city manager is a puppet of oligarch Andrey Komarov who owns the plant.
“For us it is obvious that a person who worked under him and he was a CEO comes into power so that to implement the order of his boss,” said Vladimir Plyusnin, head of the YABLOKO faction in the City Duma.
Plyusnin also emphasized that YABLOKO had always stood for the direct election of the mayor guaranteed by the laws on local self-government. “Participation of the faction in the [City Duma] meeting would have demonstated that we were involved in the process,” Plyusnin said.
In spite of this YABLOKO will go on working on the economic issues in the City Duma.
Posted: November 2nd, 2013 under Elections.