Candidates to the City Council from YABLOKO may loose their jobs because of running from the YABLOKO party
Press Release, July 11, 2013
Candidates from YABLOKO to the City Council of the Myski city, the Kemerovo region, are threatened with dismissals because of running from the YABLOKO party. They were asked to stop their membership in YABLOKO and retreat from the election race.
Today three people from the party list, miners from the Sibirginskaya mine – Alexander Nizhatov, Alexei Terendin and Nadezhda Guseva – were summoned to the employer and under the threat of loosing their jobs were told to stop their membership in YABLOKO and retreat from the election race.
“Yesterday Alexander Derbenyov, head of the mine phoned me and told that he was dissatisfied with my participation in politics,” Alexander Nizhtov, one of the candidates from the YABLOKO list told to the Press Service.
He also added that the employer had said that the dismissal would be formally grounded on the work rather than ideological basis. However, the workers do not succumb to pressure and continue defending their stance.
In total YABLOKO’s list for the elections of the City Council contains ten candidates, but, in accordance with the law, if three persons are excluded from the list, the party will have to cancel the whole list and thus retreat from the election campaign.
Elections to the City Council of the Myski city will take place on September 8.
Posted: July 11th, 2013 under Elections, Regional and Local Elections.