In the opposition

Open letter to Sergey Udaltsov

January 20, 2012 Ivan Starikov

Sergey!

You and I have known each other for a long time. Your character, fundamentalness, honesty, known today in the country for everyone, have become clear to me in 2005. Then, even from liberal politicians, not everyone showed his readiness to enter the initiative group to nominate Mikhail Khodorkovsky to the State Duma. Moreover, your position from the left flank surprised: “Injustice to a person has no political coloring, it is neither right nor left. This is the vileness of a dull repressive state machine. ”

I am not a supporter of the left idea. Moreover, I consider it dangerous to solve today's problems of the country with the help of the ideology of communism.

But politics is an art of possible. Today, the Left Front you head signed an agreement on the support of the presidential candidate from the Communist Party of the Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov. And I turn to you as a person of an unconditional moral authority.

The decision that I propose would not have the slightest meaning, it is sounded before the December events. But today the situation in the country has changed irreversibly and - today the Communists have a unique opportunity to dissolve the Moscow City Duma shamefully chosen on October 11, 2011!

The level of abuse, falsifications, administrative lawlessness during those elections simply went off scale! He was much more significant than in the past Duma. Due to the debugged “magic elected machine”, Luzhkov were able to provide a appearance of 110% and take all 35 seats in the Duma! Exclusively and only because for the legitimacy of the Duma it is necessary to participate in its work at least two parties, 3 communists got into it: Nikolai Gubenko, Andrei Klychkov and Vladimir Svyatoshenko.

You and I are well aware that these three respected people in the full -time work of the City Duma do not solve anything.

But it is on them that the fate of the Moscow City Duma, false and illegitimate!

Sergey!

Due to the moral and political authority gained by your organization, you have reason to put forward some requirements for the ally of Gennady Andreevich.

Offer to make a decision of the Central Committee on the reservation of the powers of deputies-communists of the City Duma.

Agree, the dissolution of the metropolitan parliament, where 90% of the seats belongs to United Russia, is a strong political move! Especially important in the conditions of the upcoming elections of the President of Russia. It is necessary to deprive the "batch of crooks and thieves" the possibility of undividedly rule the law in the capital! And the elections for the Moscow City Duma forcedly scheduled for the summer of 2012 will inevitably show the collapse of the party in power. I think it is also clear that, in accordance with the real alignment of political forces in the country, the Communists in the newly elected Duma will not take three best places.

Sincerely, Ivan Starikov.

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