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Press release, 25.10.2000
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The Yabloko
Association establishes a system of observers at electoral
districts
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| The Bureau of the Central Council of
the Yabloko association approved during its meeting
on October 24, 2000, another list of Yabloko’s observers
with the right of a decisive vote (93 people) for the
electoral districts of the city of Voronezh. At previous
meetings, the Bureau approved the appointment of observers
of the territorial commissions of the Voronezh region.
The work of the observers will be tried out at the
gubernatorial and
mayoral
elections in Voronezh, to be held on December 24,
2000. Therefore,
during
the spring elections to the regional and the municipal
Duma ,Yabloko’s
observers will participate in the work of all the
territorial and
district
electoral commissions, where representatives from
Yabloko and its ally
the
Union of the Right-Wing Forces (SPS) have candidates.
The Bureau of the Central Council also decided to
support deputy of the
“Russia’s Regions” faction Vladimir Butkeev at the
gubernatorial
elections
in Magadan Region. The member s of the Bureau noted
that the cooperation
of
Butkeev with the regional branch of Yabloko in Magadan
was long-term and
productive. The elections will take place on November
5, 2000. At
present
VButkeev and the present governor Tzvetkov have the
biggest electoral
chances.
On October 28 the 9th Congress of the Yabloko Association
will be held
Moscow Region: the first meeting of the newly elected
Central Council is
scheduled for October 29. Both the meetings will
be devoted to another
stage
of party reform and will work in a regime that is
closed to the mass
media.
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