Sergei Mitrokhin called
Muscovites to change the Moscow government
Press Release
March 2,
2013
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin called the participants of
the Social Manifestation to "change the authorities at
the next elections to the Moscow City Duma," rather than
ask the Mayor of Moscow team for some "handouts".
"We offer the entire civil society to unite for the Moscow
City Duma elections and agree to provide our party candidates
list for this purpose, and we give half of the list for civil
society activists," Mitrokhin said at a rally on Sakharov
Square.
Mitrokhin showed YABLOKOs Manifesto 2014 to the rally.
"If we can do it, than we will win the mayoral election.
And then we'll come and say Sergei Sobyanins (the present
Moscow Mayor) team: Moscow is not your city. This is our city!
" said YABLOKO leader.
Mitrokhin also said that the policies of the Moscow authorities
was "authoritarian and incompetent in many areas, but
extremely self-confident and based on the most profound contempt
for the Muscovites". "The Sobyanins team acts as
if they came to some kindergarten rather than Moscow. They
know what is better for us, and we should wait with our mouths
open when they bring happiness to us," Mitrokhin said.
Clearing off small businesses in favour of large networks,
depriving migrants of their rights to improve their living
conditions in favour of investors, tiling [the entire Moscow],
construction works in the parks, mindless expansion of roads
here is this happiness, but not for the Muscovites, it
is for officials and oligarchs at the expense of suffering
of ordinary people.
According to Mitrokhin, today each Muscovite should ask a
question "what is happening and why?" And give an
answer until it is not too late.
The rally on Sakharov Square was preceded by a manifestation
along the boulevards. YABLOKOs column together with other
political forces columns marched from Pushkin Square along
the boulevards to Sakharov Square. Muscovites who know YABLOKO
well as the party helped them to stand up for their rights,
joined the party column.
YABLOKO activists held a banner The Moscow authority must
be controlled by Muscovites!
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin heading the
column
Galina Mikhalyova, First Deputy Chairman of
the Moscow branch of YABLOKO
