Sergei Mitrokhin: nominating Gennadi Gudkov Governor of the Moscow Region marks the launch of the strategy towards a broad union of democratic forces
Press Release
The Regional Council of the Moscow Region branch of YABLOKO recommended to the YABLOKO conference to nominate Gennady Gudkov, an oppositional politician, ex MP and ex member of the Just Russia party, for Governor of the Moscow Region. Tonight Gennady Gudkov spoke at the Regional Council meeting and answered the questions from the Council members. YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin also spoke at the Council meeting.
Following the discussion the Council held an open vote: 23 members of the Regional Council supported the address to YABLOKO conference to support Gudkov, two voted against and one abstained.
Sergei Mitrokhin noted that he was satisfied that the initiative proposed in his speech at the recent rally at Bolotnaya Square, Moscow, on May 6, found support from the Regional Council members. “Gudkov has made a convincing speech at the Council meeting, which certainly increased the number of the Council members supporting him,” Mitrokhin said.
“Starting from this meeting we can begin countdown for formation of a broad alliance of the democratic forces, which is not limited to the campaign for the nomination of a candidate in the Moscow Region gubernatorial elections. I hope that the next step will be to creation of a single list of candidates for the Moscow City Duma elections in 2014,” said YABLOKO’s leader.
Posted: May 15th, 2013 under Elections, Topics of the day, Yabloko's Views.