Igor Yakovenko: "The powerless mayor or a strong mayor?"

"In countries where the word" democracy "is used without adjectives, and the word" democrat "is not abusive, the authorities seeks to gain the trust of citizens, and in the event of a loss of trust, it ceases to be power. In our Russian sovereign democracy, the population must earn confidence in the authorities and correct voting. In the event of improper voting, the power punishes the population, which happened with the inhabitants of the Urals. Columonist "Daily Journal" .

"... Roizman, already in the status of the mayor, stood in a picket in support of the prisoners of the" swamp business ", as well as in a picket against the Russian war with Ukraine. Neither the mayor of Nizhny Tagil, nor the mayors of other Russian cities, can trust the residents of these cities, and the residents of Yekaterinburg can no longer.

Supporters of the cancellation of the elections give that argument in favor of their position that in the current two -headed system of the city administration, the mayor is the "English queen", and in the new model the mayor will have the full power. Why the appointment can be endowed with power, and such power can not be given to the mayor, the supporters of the Sverdlovsk governor cannot be given to the mayor.

Citizens of Yekaterinburg intend to resist. One of the slogans at the thousands of thousands in defense of the mayor’s election sounded like this: "We need a mayor, not a mayor." Roizman wrote on his Twitter: "There is no word to" give up "in our dictionary. There are few resources for resistance to Roizman and his supporters. This is street activity, attempts to resist amendments to the city charter and appeal to the court.

If you look directly into the eyes of reality, not one of these resources is sufficient to prevent the cancellation of the mayor’s elections. In order for street activity to lead to this result, it is necessary that the whole city comes out. At least one hundred thousand, which is unrealistic. If the supporters of Roizman in the City Duma refuse to make changes to the city charter, that is, they refuse to bring the city charter into compliance with the higher regional law, then the prosecutor’s office will force them to this. The court remains ... Here, apparently, it is worthwhile to be sad.

Roizman and his supporters will continue the struggle. And in this they are undoubtedly right. This is important for their reputation. Putinism will perish. As Stalinism, Hitlerism and other muck disappeared before. And people who do not give up and continue to fight for the rights of citizens in any conditions, these citizens will be in demand. "