Grigory Yalvinsky’s Facebook page, 22.01.2020

https://www.facebook.com/yavlinsky.yabloko/videos/180365696521943/?t=20

The breakdown of the Constitution proposed by the President and furnished with decorative procedures, is not only an already familiar manifestation of disrespect for the people, but also, above all, a manifestation of the political vector: towards not only preserving the current system, but making it even more authoritarian, closed and, as consequently, economically inefficient. In such situation, active civic political resistance is necessary: ​​to develop and introduce to the society fundamentally different amendments to the Constitution in the interests of citizens of Russia, and not the ruling group, make amendments that create conditions for improving the quality of life and development of the country for the current young generation of Russians and several generations ahead.

For example:

– elect the President of Russia for four years, rather than for a six year term;

– return the elections of mayors and governors instead of presidential appointments;

– make the posts of senators in the Federation Council elective.

The purpose of this work is to protect the spirit of the Constitution, consolidate the values ​​of its first chapters in the structure of state governing so as to guarantee and make the separation of powers, independent and fair justice, fair competition in politics and the economy, free elections, freedom of opinion and belief, freedom of the media , freedom of peaceful public actions, inviolability of private property, real plenipotentiary self-government of local communities, state compliance with its international obligations (above all in ensuring human rights and freedoms).

We will develop such amendments with the best lawyers in Russia. We will invite the best political scientists, we will work all together. We will make the Constitution the foundation for free enterprise, the foundation for free life without fear in Russia. We will create the Constitution of free people and we will seek adoption of changes in the constitutional referendum by the whole country. This is our historical responsibility. It is necessary to change the Constitution, but not in the way Vladimir Putin wants it.

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The full text of the article “The Constitution of Free People: Work for the Future” was published in the Novaya Gazeta on January 20, 2020.