On April 10, the YABLOKO party held a meeting for representatives
of democratic parties and organizations. The meeting discussed
YABLOKOs proposal on compiling of a single list of democratic
candidates for the Moscow City Duma elections 2014. Earlier
YABLOKO had proposed to give half of places on its party list
to the candidates from democratic forces.
Members of the Democratic Choice party and their leader Vladimir
Milov, representatives of the Solidarity movement and RPR-PARNAS,
activists from Grazhdanskaya Initsiativa (Civil Initiative)
and their leader Andrei Nechayev, Gennady Gudkov , member
of the opposition's Coordination Council, and Ilya Ponomaryov,
deputy of the State Duma, took part in the meeting. Opening
the meeting YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin spoke about YABLOKOs
initiative on creating a broad democratic and civil coalition
for the Moscow City Duma elections. YABLOKO proposed to conduct
primaries, where all the Muscovites could participate; whereas
the winners in the primaries would be included into the YABLOKO
party list of candidates and in single-mandate electoral districts.
Sergei Mitrokhin emphasized that if the parties reached an
agreement, YABLOKO would ready to take their representatives
on the partys part of the electoral list.
Ilya Ponomaryov and Vladimir Milov spoke about the need to
divide single-mandate electoral districts between the democratic
forces. Vladimir Milov also spoke about the importance of
raising the turnout and proposed to conduct a sociological
survey first.
Sociological surveys always demonstrate out-of-date data,
said Galina Mikhaleva, First Deputy Chair of the Moscow branch
of YABLOKO. The task of a politician should be forming of
public opinion and changing the agenda, she added.
Mikhail Shneider reported that RPR-PARNAS had planned to hold
primaries for all the positions on their list of candidates.
Sergei Mitrokhin noted that in this case their party would
be deprived of a mechanism for coordination of interests with
other parties.
According to Gennady Gudkov, a single charter for all the
opposition politicians and political forces running in the
elections against the Moscow City authorities should be created.
The participants of the meeting agreed that the next meeting
should take place in a neutral territory and with broader
representation. All the potential participants of the negotiations
should receive invitations to the meeting. Gennady Gudkov
proposed that representatives of the Communist Party and the
Just Russia party should also be invited to the second meeting.
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin noted that the meeting was
a success and the discussion of these issues would go on.
See also:
Moscow
City Duma Elections 2014
Sergei
Mitrokhin called Muscovites to change the Moscow government.
Press Release, March 2, 2013
Half
of YABLOKO’s candidates for the Moscow City Duma elections
will be determined by Muscovites in primaries. Press
Release, February 17, 2013
YABLOKO
to call for nomination of candidates from a united democratic
opposition for the Moscow City Duma elections. Press
Release, February 14, 2013
Regional
and Local Elections 2013
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