Sergei Mitrokhin: All-Russia People’s Front proposal to liquidate local government is anticonstitutional
Press Release, December 6, 2013
Representative of the All-Russia People’s Front Olga Timofeyeva proposed President Putin to liquidate local government in large cities and municipal districts and leave it only in towns and regions of large cities, but divest the local government of nearly all authority allowing them only to “recondition the roads” and “remove the snow”.
[The All-Russia People’s Front was created in 2011 as a loose association of conservative Putin supporters with vague aims and an organizational structure that largely depended on the ruling United Russia party, now headed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.]
YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin claims the proposal is anti-constitutional. “The All-Russia People’s Front always makes anti-constitutional proposals aimed to tighten the screws. The proposal to liquidate local government violates the Constitution and the European Charter of Local Self-Government ratified by Russia. YABLOKO managed to stop the attempt to liquidate local government in 2000 when I explained the details of the Charter to Vladimir Putin”, said Sergei Mitrokhin.
YABLOKO will do everything possible to block the anti-constitutional proposal.
Posted: December 9th, 2013 under YABLOKO Against the Parties of Power.