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Grigory Yavlinsky comes second. "The alternative pre-term
presidential elections" held in an exhibition of non-print
political posters on March 21, 2000 in the Central House
of Artists on Kuznetsky Most, resulted in a victory for
Vladimir Putin, who gathered 29 votes.
Grigory Yavlinsky came second by one vote only. In addition
to the real presidential candidates, the list of candidates
drawn up by exhibition organisers included other Russian
celebrities. One of them, the writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn
got 23 votes, whereas 19 participants in the voting were
"against all" and satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky gathered 18
votes.
Stanislav Govorukhin and Vladimir Zhirinovsky came 6th
and 7th, with six and seven supporters respectively. Boris
Berezovsky, Irina Khakamada and Gennadi Zyuganov got five
votes each, and Nikita Mikhalkov and Alexander Lukashenko
four and two votes respectively.
In spite of the conditionality and frivolity of the so-called
alternative elections, the organisers from the Moscow Artists'
Union, the Agitplakat publishing house and the Renome Prestige
agency think that this opinion was quite characteristic
of a certain part of Moscow intelligencia.
Based on Interfax reports.
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Grigory Yavlinsky
believes that the initiative of Vladimir Zhirinovsky about
a single candidate is not serious
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Presidential candidate and leader of Yabloko, Grigory Yavlinsky,
did not take seriously the proposal of another presidential
candidate, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, about a single opposition
candidate.
Vladimir Zhirinovsky said on March 21, 2000 that he was
ready to recall his candidacy in favour of either Gennadi
Zyuganov or Grigory Yavlinsky, in order to present a single
candidate from the combined opposition at the presidential
elections.
According to the head of the press service of the Yabloko
faction Yevgeniya Dillendorf, Grigory Yavlinsky "has been
in politics for ten years already and has during this period
learned how to differentiate between proposals from not
only by their taste and smell, but even by their appearance".
Even though Grigory Yavlinsky is acquainted with the crux
of the idea set forth by Zhirinovsky, he does not take it
seriously, added the press secretary.
Based on Interfax reports.
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