Moscow, August 5, 2003. Those who ordered the campaign
"YABLOKO Without
Yavlinsky" will be detected soon. Such a statement was made by Deputy
Head of the YABLOKO party Sergei
Mitrokhin during an interactive press conference with Rosbalt. According
to Mitrokhin the names will be announced on Thursday or Friday.
At the same time Mitrokhin, who had previously
stated that Anatoli Chubais had ordered the campaign, noted that such
a provocation could have been performed by representatives of the parties
connected with large monopolies.
He stressed that the YABLOKO party was consistent in opposing the [government's
variant of the] reform in the electricity sector, the opaque privatisation
of the largest and most profitable assets in this sector, the attempts
of the large monopolies to grasp the housing and
utilities sector and switch to 100% payment by the population of housing
and utilities services.
Mitrokhin also said that in all the aforementioned positions YABLOKO
and the Union of Right-Wing Forces (SPS) were on different sides of the
barricades and in this aspect the SPS was YABLOKO's ideological rival.
It should be added that the Coordinator of the YABLOKO faction in St.
Petersburg Legislative Assembly Mikhail
Amosov noted that he "did not have any problems with the General
Director of Lenenergo, member of the Political Council of St.Petersburg
branch of the SPS Andrei Likhachyov.
See also:
State Duma elections
2003
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