YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin agrees with the idea of returning the item “Against All” in the voting ballots
Interfax, 26.09.2013
Chairman of the YABLOKO party Sergei Mitrokhin supported the initiative to return the item “Against All” to the voting ballots.
“I believe this is a right proposal,” Mitrokhin told Interfax on Wednesday.
According to Mitrokhin, returning of the line “against all” to the ballots would bring back the voters’ right taken away from them earlier. Mitrokhin suggested that the return of an option to vote against all the candidates would channel all the snowballing negative feelings towards the authorities into this line.
“This is probably better for the authorities compared to when people vote for the opposition. For me as a leader of an opposition party this maybe not so beneficial. But in this case, I am speaking about this from the point of view of law and the rights of citizens. The question of a political gain should not be the first priority here,” Mitrokhin added.
Posted: September 26th, 2013 under Moscow City Duma Elections 2014.