| The meeting between the leaders of Russian
registered political parties and President of Russia Dmitry
Medvedev has just finished.
Chair of the YABLOKO party Sergei Mitrokhin was the last
to take the floor during the meeting after parliamentary
parties leaders, the Right Cause and the Patriots of Russia
parties. Sergei Mitrokhin began his speech saying that the
forthcoming elections represent an opportunity to implement
Russian modernisation plans voiced by the President earlier.
Political modernisation first of all means provision of equal
possibilities for political competition. And this should take
place during elections, Mitrokhin stressed. According to
YABLOKOs leader, today the State Duma with dominance of
one political party is the most powerful anti-modernisation
factor. Mitrokhin also stated that this party represents
the interests of bureaucracy and large business connected
with the latter. As it is this party which controls the parliament,
it can not protect the society from bureaucrats arbitrary
rule and corruption. Therefore a corrupted system based on
the laws adopted by bureaucracy and for the sake of bureaucracy
via the State Duma has been built in the country, Mitrokhin
said.
He also stressed that bureaucracy has created a lot of feed
mangers for the oligarchs to get profits from disposal of
federal, land and other resources, and bureaucrats get payoffs
from the oligarchs.
Modernisation of the State Duma is a very important task,
Mitrokhin said to the President. According to Mitrokhin, maximally
free and fair elections, equal access of parties to press
and television can solve this task of modernisation of the
Russian parliament.
Mitrokhin also proposed to Dmitry Medvedev to allot to each
of the parties ten minutes of prime time a day at the main
television channels in the last two weeks of election campaign.
Mitrokhin also raised the issue of lack of equal conditions
for parties participation in the elections. He said that a
norm allowing to the citizens to see the voters lists should
be introduced into the law. Mitrokhin also proposed to grade
different violations subject to criminal liability that may
involve election fraud.
The President has positively reacted on these two proposals
and promised to carefully study them, Mitrokhin said. Commenting
Mitrokhins words on the monopoly of one party in the State
Duma Dmitry Medvedev said that excess monopoly is a bad thing,
but it is also bad when the parliament is not consolidated
like it was in 1990s.
See also:
State Duma
elections 2011
Modernisation
in Russia
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