Grigory Yavlinsky about why it is important for people to vote
https://www.facebook.com/yavlinsky.yabloko/videos/1713171582109325/
Grigory Yavlinsky FB post, 01.02.2018
[Presidential elections of] 2000. I participate in the presidential elections and come third. And literally a month later I was invited by Putin and he asked me a question: “Tell me, if you became President, what would you do first?” And within three months my proposals on the fiscal system, the reserve funds and the state budget were realised.
I explained, on a concrete example, at the meeting with voters in Pskov that if millions of people in Russia support a particular policy, then [the authorities] can’t ignore it. And if there are only Zyuganov [leader of the Communist party] and Zhirinovsky [leader of another parliamentary party LDPR], then it is their policies that are implemented by [the ruling] United Russia [party], because the latter does not have its own policies. Such is the mechanism.
Source: https://www.facebook.com/yavlinsky.yabloko/videos/1713171582109325/
Posted: February 1st, 2018 under Presidential elections 2018.