He responded to the request

Politician Dmitry Gudkov decided to withdraw an application for a rally in defense of the electoral rights of citizens on Academician Sakharov Avenue on December 24, Rain reports . The reason was the head of the Krasnoselsky District of Moscow Ilya Yashin, who on the same day is going to hold a "day of free elections" in the format of the municipal holiday in the Lermontovsky square.

“Nobody offered any spoiler event to do. I wanted to make a great citywide rally, realizing that in this situation we have the opportunity to press the city hall. Because when the mayor's office feels the power, she always makes concessions,” Gudkov said. “I don’t understand why he (Yashin. - Ed.) Refuses this opportunity. We can hold a large rally on Sakharov Avenue, we can invite Alexei Navalny there and all the others who are there. We will wish to speak there.

The application for the five thousandth rally of Gudkov submitted on Tuesday. A few hours later the city hall agreed on the event.

According to Yashin, in the Public Chamber of Moscow, he was offered to cancel the decision of the Council of Deputies on behalf of the “Day of Free Elections” on behalf of the City Hall and join the rally on Sakharov Avenue. "My position: the decision of our Council of Deputies to hold the holiday is legally, since it is customary in accordance with the law and compliance with the procedures. The abandonment of it will actually mean a voluntary abandonment of our powers in favor of the city hall - this is unacceptable. It is not only about the event on December 24: we are defending the rights of local self -government as a whole. Tomorrow it will become widespread practice," Yashin wrote .

At the same time, the politician noted that if the city hall offers "transfer the holiday to a more convenient site on Sakharov Avenue", the Council of Deputies will consider this option.

"As for Gudkov’s application for a rally, I do not consider it a provocateur, of course, and I believe in a sincere desire to help in resolving the conflict. But from my point of view, officials are trying to use it against us for their political purposes. Therefore, I ask Dima to withdraw the application," Yashin said.

On November 28, the Council of Deputies of the municipal district of Krasnoselsky approved the "Day of Free Elections" on Lermontovskaya Square on December 24. According to the law "On local self -government in the city of Moscow", the arrangement of local holidays refers to issues of local significance of the municipal district.

On December 13, the deputy prefect of the central administrative district of the capital, Sergei Travkin, sent a letter to Yashin, which stated that due to the unhappy deadlines for filing a notification and the lack of the necessary package of documents "The event was not agreed." The official referred to the mayor’s order, although the festive events that are held by local governments in Moscow are not regulated by the city authorities and do not require their coordination.

On the same day, the head of the Moscow Public Security Department, Vladimir Chernikov, called the "Day of Free Elections" illegal and "certain kind of provocation." Chernikov said that the organizers of the planned district holiday supposedly had to notify the authorities of him for at least a month.

Then Yashin turned to the metropolitan prosecutor with a request to make a warning to Chernikov and Travkin for attempts to disrupt the "Day of Free Elections".

The next day, the Meshchanskaya Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office sent a notification to the head of the Krasnoselsky Council of Deputies about the inadmissibility of the "actually unauthorized rally under the guise of a district holiday."

On December 18, Yashin stated that he would sue the mayor of Moscow. “There is no doubt that Sergey Sobyanin personally stands in our powers to an attempt to interfere with our powers,” Yashin notes. “I believe that he expects to once again show his loyalty to Vladimir Putin, stopping any independent events on the president’s official nomination for a new term.” According to the politician, the prohibition of the "Day of Free Elections" Moscow Mayor "risks Putin to Putin a large pig," since the possible detentions at the event will become "the dubious start of the election campaign of the head of state."

On Monday, Yashin spent a single picket from the Central Election Commission in protest against the restriction of the powers of local authorities. According to him, Yashin, he asks the head of the cyc Ella Pamfilov "to contact Sergei Sobyanin and remind him of the rights of local self -government and inadmissibility to interfere in our powers."