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Sergei Mitrokhin about the Moscow City Duma election in his blog

Press Release
October 14, 2009

Leader of the YABLOKO party Sergei Mitrokhin has summed up the results of the Moscow City Duma election in his blog at the Echo Moskvi radio station web-site.

“Proceeding from a number of direct and indirect data, we can say that YABLOKO obtained about 12% of the votes. Fraud bit almost two thirds of our votes,” Mitrokhin writes.

Answering the question “who is to blame for the fraud” YABLOKO’s leader singles out three groups: “the passive protesting majority allowing the authorities to persuade them that ‘everything has been already decided for us’”; propagandists of the elections boycott called ‘a media-Solidarity batch’ by Mitrokhin; and the authorities.

“Our ultra-radicals are even unable to understand that they are helping the authorities to avoid anything resembling an ‘orange revolution’”. As only those who participated in the election go into the streets to protesting against a deceit,” Mitrokhin says.

According to Mitrokhin, YABLOKO will take another way. “If 100% of the citizens come to the elections, they will inevitably sweep away the ballot-riggers either at the election or at the Red Square after the fraud”, runs the blog.

 

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Moscow City Duma Elections, 2009

 

 

Press Release

October 14, 2009