Navalny announced an action against pension reform on a single voting day

Alexei Navalny announced a new all-Russian protest against the pension reform. It will take place on a single voting day on September 9, when, among other things, the election of the mayor of Moscow will be held.

“We will make it so that in these “elections” raising the retirement age is the main topic,” the oppositionist said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGhGMhSd99w&feature=youtu.be

• The pension reform united people, even deputies of United Russia spoke out against it, Navalny says in the video. According to him, Vladimir Putin is “cowardly” to publicly support the bill due to the collapse of ratings, and the reform itself is needed to “pull away” the money received from it.

Context

• Navalny has already held an all-Russian protest against raising the retirement age on July 1, during the World Cup. The rallies then took place in 39 cities and did not take place in the cities participating in the football tournament. We wrote more about the protests here .
• Large-scale actions against the reform were also carried out by other structures - for example, at the end of July, rallies throughout the country were organized by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, in Moscow took to the streets. more than 12 thousand people
• The Russian authorities want to raise the retirement age to 65 for men and 63 for women. The bill has already been adopted in the first reading, possible amendments will be made in the second reading.
• After the announcement of the pension reform in mid-June, Vladimir Putin's rating fell to a record low since the protests on Bolotnaya Square. The president himself commented on the reform for the first time (he does not like all the options for raising the retirement age) only a month later, at the end of July.