Gorbachev: I feel sick of the actions of the authorities

The authorities are obliged to fulfill the requirements of the participants in the rally and, until December 24, raise the question of canceling the results of elections to the State Duma, the ex-president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev said on the air of the Echo of Moscow. “We must raise the question of the need to cancel on behalf of our system that arose, say“ Bolotinskaya, ”Gorbachev said. He noted that the authorities“ do not react to this and do nothing, and lead us by the nose. ”

"I feel sick already from this. If they do not offer us a solution to the issue of cancellation of the elections during these 12 days, then we have the right to tell people:" We must take up this for this. "And we all the time wereware: no need, no need." If the authorities with society will treat this, if it will cunning and mobilizing its entire resources, then society should be able to answer this, ”concluded Gorbachev.

On December 7, Gorbachev said that ignoring the opinion of the population regarding falsification of elections to parliament destabilizes the situation in the country, and also discredits the current government, said the ex-president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev. The country's leadership must recognize numerous falsifications and nagging and hold new elections, Gorbachev said.

“Every day, more and more Russians do not believe that the announced election results are honest,” the ex -president said. In his opinion, official results do not reflect the will of voters.

On December 12, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that falsifications in the elections reported by the media and the opposition do not affect the results of elections to the State Duma, since they are too insignificant. "Even if you put all these so -called falsifications together, then in total they will only amount to 0.5 percent of the total number of votes. So, even if they hypothetically imagine that they are all satisfied with the court, they will not in no way affect the question of the legitimacy of the elections and general results," Peskov said.

On December 11, President Dmitry Medvedev said that he did not agree with either the slogans or the requirements put forward by participants in the thousands of protest against falsification in the elections in Bolotnaya Square in Moscow. “I do not agree with either the slogans or the statements that sounded at rallies,” Medvedev wrote on his Facebook page. “According to the Constitution, Russian citizens have freedom of speech and freedom of assembly. People have the right to express their position, which they did yesterday. It is good that everything went within the framework of the law,” Medvedev wrote.

Earlier, the Central Election Commission refused to consider the resignation of the chairman of the department Vladimir Churov. On Sunday, a member of the CIK with the right of an advisory vote from the Communist Party Kirill Serdyukov suggested discussing the resignation of Churov. He explained that the resignation of the head of the CEC became one of the requirements of the rally in the Moscow Bolotnaya Square, which gathered tens of thousands of Muscovites. In support of Serdyukov, only one member of the commission, communist Yevgeny Kolyushin spoke out.

Earlier, the CEC refused to discuss another requirement of protesters in Moscow and throughout Russia, regarding the abolition of elections to the State Duma and the appointment of new elections in which all opposition parties could participate. Deputy Chairman of the Central Election Commission Stanislav Vavilov called these requirements unfounded.

On December 10, the rally participants against falsification of elections on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow adopted a resolution in which, in particular, they demanded a revision of the results of the elections. In total, protesters put forward five demands to the authorities: the immediate liberation of all political prisoners; cancellation of the results of falsified elections; the resignation of the head of the CEC Vladimir Churov and the investigation of his activities, the verification of all facts of falsifications; registration of opposition parties, adoption of democratic laws on parties and elections; Conducting new open and honest elections. The opposition gave the authorities for two weeks to fulfill the conditions put forward. The next rally should be held on December 24.