Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin , in an interview with Bloomberg , said that as many people as agreed by the authorities should participate in rallies, and everyone else should not be allowed to attend the rally.

“If they come more than announced, they should not be allowed to the rally, otherwise the streets will be blocked, and if at the same time people are provoked to illegal actions, of course, the police must take appropriate measures,” the website of the capital’s mayor’s office quotes Sobyanin as saying .

He added that he considers such protests taking place in the capital after the elections to be quite acceptable if they are agreed upon.

“Those demonstrations that are allowed and take place in the prescribed manner are not dispersed by anyone, no one offends them,” Sobyanin said.

Sobyanin also expressed confidence in the interview that the elections to the State Duma took place without violations.

“If this had been a mass phenomenon, we would have received serious protests on the networks from the leading political parties. What is a mass violation? This means that some parties did not reach their percentages, but today all three parties say that this did not happen,” the mayor said.

According to him, the election results, in which United Russia, according to the latest data from the Central Election Commission, gains less than 50% of the votes, demonstrates that society wants change.

“These elections showed a serious lesson that people want change, people want the government to be more effective, so that it hears them and involves them in governance, and serious conclusions must be drawn from this, because the party’s rating has dropped significantly compared to previous elections , and this cannot be ignored,” said the head of Moscow.

On Saturday in Moscow, an opposition rally for 300 people was agreed upon on Revolution Square. After the number of people gathering for the rally on social networks exceeded ten thousand people, the mayor’s office agreed with Nemtsov and Ryzhkov to move it to Bolotnaya Square, expanding the number of participants to 30 thousand people. However, representatives of the Left Front, who are considered the organizers of the action, refused to agree with this decision and intend to hold a rally on Revolution Square .

Sobyanin: there should be as many participants at the rally as the authorities decided, the rest should not be allowed - Gazeta.Ru