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Moscow, December 17, 2002. The YABLOKO faction supported the initiative of the centrist factions of the Duma to adjourn examination of the package of draft laws on the energy sector reforms from December 18, 2002, to a later period. The press service of the YABLOKO faction informed Rosbalt that on Tuesday the leader of the party and its Duma faction Grigory Yavlinsky made a statement that this proposal of the centrists (also supported by the Duma Council today) had been agreed with the presidential team.
Yavlinsky stressed that "the decision to considerably review the energy package may become a very serious political decision by Vladimir Putin targeted against the criminal-oligarchic economic system". According to Yavlinsky, the variant of the reforms prepared by the RAO UES of Russia and supported by the Government had serious drawbacks that could create a "political and economically dangerous situation in the country". In addition the leader of YABLOKO expressed his conviction that, if the variant adopted by the State Duma in the first reading was implemented, this would lead to unrestricted growth in prices and tariffs, first of all in the housing and communal sector.
Nevertheless Yavlinsky thinks that it is impossible to amend the considerable shortcomings in the energy package in a week. According to Yavlinsky, "a serious revision of the package of draft laws can be only be carried out next year." The leader of YABLOKO said that "it is feasible to prepare a coordinated and considerably improved variant of the reforms in spring, or even in summer."
See also:
Energy Sector Reforms
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