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Democrats Promise to Close Ranks
An initiative group met in Moscow Friday to nominate Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky as the presidential candidate. Bukovsky is the second candidate of democrats. The first one is People’s Democratic Union leader Mikhail Kasyanov. The Congress of Union of Right Forces (SPS) will decide on participation in the presidential race today, December 17, 2007. Boris Nemtsov is the most probable candidate of that party, though some members may propose to support the candidate of ruling United Russia – Russia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
Pursuant to the RF laws, a presidential candidate is first to convene an initiative meeting and register 500 supporters. Bukovsky’s meeting was held yesterday, December 16, 2007 at the Sakharov Public Center, Moscow, and 823 registered there by 7:00 p.m. MSK. Bukovsky was nominated unanimously.
“I’m very pleased that you have come. Have come believing that we will win,” Bukovsky addressed the supporters, informing them about some unity amid the democrats. Bukovsky said he inked a coordination agreement with SPS potential candidate Boris Nemtsov and People’s Democratic Union leader Mikhail Kasyanov. They all will attempt to collect signatures and pass registration in the Central Election Commission. Then, one of them with the highest rating will become a single democratic candidate.
Yabloko promised to support Bukovsky Friday. Having failed in the parliamentary elections, that party decided against independent campaign for presidency, viewing it “the propaganda farce around a successor.” Yabloko declared it favored “slogans and actions” of candidate Bukovsky, as he “has proved by all his life the right to be the strongest moral opponent to authoritarianism.”
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All the Article in Russian as of Dec. 17, 2007
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