Press Release, 5.06.2024

Photo: The Moscow City Duma / Photo by the Yabloko Press Service

At a meeting on 5 June, the Moscow City Duma called the elections to the Moscow parliament. On 8 June, the Moscow Yabloko will conduct a Conference at which party candidates in Moscow districts will be nominated.

Maxim Kruglov, the leader of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma, spoke about the results of Yabloko’s work in the Moscow city parliament over the past five years and the upcoming elections:

Over the course of five years, the Yabloko faction has become in the Moscow City Duma the voice of people of democratic views who respect each other and love their city and their country. We proposed alternative amendments to the Constitution, expansion of the powers of the Duma, introduction of a parliamentary investigation into the actions of officials, our own amendments and proposals from municipal deputies to the city budget, protested against surveillance of citizens and police brutality in the streets of Moscow, called for stopping repression in Russia and bloodshed in Ukraine.

The Yabloko faction and its deputies introduced about 70 bills at the federal and regional level for consideration by the Moscow City Duma. We voiced the party’s position not only from the rostrum, but also in the form of draft laws. We held 15 round tables. We received and considered 8,745 citizens’ appeals. We sent 17,040 parliamentary appeals, about a third of them were not a response to what had been sent to us, but our initiative. We made political statements on key issues of the city and country, and gave tough and honest assessments of the work of the Moscow police. We worked on the budget: over five years, the faction proposed 38 amendments and our deputies tabled 201 amendments; 11 amendments have been taken into account by the executive branch in one form or another. We held a huge number of meetings with Moscow residents.

We continue working until September, and, I hope, we will be with Muscovites for the next five years. We remain in Moscow, we remain with our voters, we are simply not going to give them up to officials and the party of the majority, which, by and large, is no different from the officials. The results of our work will become a good foundation for preserving the faction. We tried to bring changes closer and continue to do so.

Our gratitude to all who said kind words about our work, thank you for your support! With your support this work becomes easier, and most importantly, meaningful and justified.

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Elections to Moscow City Duma will be held on a single voting day, 8 September.

MAXIM KRUGLOV

is a Deputy Chairman of Yabloko,

a member of the Federal Bureau of the Party,

Deputy Chairman of the Moscow branch of Yabloko,

head of the Yabloko faction in the Moscow City Duma,

Candidate of Political Sciences.