Today YABLOKO has submitted about 80,000 signatures to the
Moscow Electoral Commission for registration at the Moscow
City Duma election.
Sergei Mitrokhin, YABLOKO’s Chairman and leader of the party
election list, and activists of the Youth YABLOKO submitted
to the Moscow Electoral Commission ten boxes styled as apple
boxes (YABLOKO means “apple” in Russian).
Speaking to the journalists Sergei Mitrokhin noted that in
spite of the fact that collection of signatures had been conducted
in very difficult conditions, the party managed to collect
about 100,000 signatures of Muscovites.
Sergei Mitrokhin also expressed his hope that Moscow would
not repeat the situation when YABLOKO was not allowed to run
the election campaign in St.Petersburg in March 2007 due to
“unspeakable fault-finding with signatures”. However, Mitrokhin
could not rule out such a development. “We are an opposition
party and are ready to everything,” Mitrokhin told to the
journalists.
According to the election law the Moscow Electoral Commission
has to check the signatures within ten days and make a decision
on registration of the election list.
See more
photographs and a video at the Moscow YABLOKO web-site
See also:
Elections
to the Moscow City Duma, 2009
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