No program – no protest? ‘Fair elections drive may disappear in weeks’

Published time: March 10, 2012 18:18
Edited time: March 10, 2012 22:18
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Political analysts say the low turnout at today’s opposition rally in Moscow is down to people’s weariness with their efforts yielding so few results. Slogans need to be replaced by a clear program if the movement is not to just fade away, they warn.

­Leaders of Saturday’s rally expected at least 50,000 people to attend. But according to official estimates only 10,000 people turned up to protest against the parliamentary and presidential elections results. The demo even wrapped up an hour earlier than planned.

People cannot demonstrate for nothing,” writer Aleksandr Latsa told RT after the rally.

The winter demonstrations attracted tens of thousands of people across the country but brought only minor concessions from the rulers, who promised to facilitate registration for new political parties and to investigate election violation claims. But there was no talk of annulling the results of the parliamentary poll or postponing the presidential elections.

Not quite satisfied with the response from the country’s rulers, the protesters were also baffled to find themselves being taken in a different direction by rally leaders.

People wanted fair elections, but then the protests became anti-Putin. This is not a political line. Being anti-Putin does not mean anything if you cannot agree on a political program,” says Latsa.

I think the movement is going to disappear in several weeks,” he added.

Saturday brought little progress for the initiative “For Fair Elections." Slogans slamming the alleged election violations as well as the regime remained mostly unchanged as did demands for snap presidential and parliamentary polls.

Non-systemic opposition leaders need to form a program, just like presidential candidates. They need to offer a program rather than a collection of slogans,” said political analyst Aleksandr Selivanov.

But the various political forces behind the rally still fail to agree on a common strategy. On Saturday, leftists again urged sit-in protests and acts of civil disobedience, while liberals insisted on peaceful and orderly demonstrations. The opposition is in bad need of a new agenda, analysts agree.

The slogan of the 'For Fair Election' has turned into a weasel claim with the majority of global powers acknowledging that Putin is the rightful leader. Unless there is a new agenda, there will be a waning in the numbers of protesters in the streets,” Selivanov told RT.

Mikhail Remizov, the head of the fund “Strategy-2020,” is convinced the decline in protesters’ numbers tells the opposition they should start creating their own shadow system of rule.

An alternative to the current ruling system can be created only if you become a ruling system yourself – at all the available levels. This is a more mundane task than protests,” Remizov told RIA Novosti.

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notcirilic 12.03.2012 01:32

The samedid Stalin, and the result was that Germans started the war to take everything  for them self . TheGermans are the perfect willing executioners for the Jews plans. Who do youthinks that's leading today Germany!!?? The Germans!!?? Absolutely wrong !Indisputable wrong ! The answer is : The Jews ! Why doyou thinks is Putin so "enigmatic “and powerful. !!?? He is thebest child of the Rothschild’s !! The rest is mirrors and smoke ! Putin isa puppet , the best saltimbanc the money can buy ! Even this"very friendly "analysis of one Israel Shamir , shows at once who isPutin! Jew's manand obedient servant ! Jews havein hand all Power That Be everywhere, don' t be naive , in Russia nothing haschanged , only the actors and the decors ! The power is the same ! Putin andAngela Merckel are coming from the same cradle of the "High Jewish InternationalMafia". All theso called "protests" in Russia were perfectly organized from out-side/inside, just for fun and deceit for the naive public, from abroad and insideRussia , to make them see the danger , all dangers and beyond of , just toinsure the re-election of Putin the favorite pupil of Rothschild’s !!Could youfollow me ! Not !!??Just wait and see ! Dixit !!Andmister Israel Shamir must know that there is not a born Jew who could fullaroudwith me and make me believe their lies. . Jewslies, manipulation, mythomanical scenarios of moron fairy-tales  are so childish for me that I becomeirritated for their lack of fantasy !  Common  Israel, you could  do it better !

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Options 11.03.2012 15:03

Nast wrote in #8
Don't get me wrong, I am not trying to compare powers that are very different! But talking about Putin and his friends in Russia, Communist party in China, or ZOGs in all western countries, all these will be hard to replace, and not much will change in the next years.

What do you think?
Answer: I wouldn’t place Putin and China in the same category as ZOGs in all western countries, because the first two are trying to bring the rule of law and resolutions through constructive dialogues. Now that we know that there are two different and opposing categories, we should also note that the process of change for the second category has already begun. The scope of change is geographically so wide that the US and its allies can only sabre rattle or risk a rapid depletion in direct confrontations. The adversaries of the US and its allies know this fact and regardless of the pretexts of a war they are going for a direct confrontation. In the final analysis, it is still better for the US and its allies to realigne their policies with the external change in progress, and very soon.

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BitterTruth 11.03.2012 13:28

New World Order,

Listen to me you Silly fool, Russians don't like people like you, don't you get it, nobody can deny the Majority of Russians there shared racial ancestry with Europeans while there're undoubtedly mongoloid admixture through their brutal conquest and domination in the past, the Fact still remains that Russians are predominantly European, it matters not if they're pure or not they're still mainly European of the Slavic stock.

Russia will never become Mongrelised like the West you idiot if that's what you want, Russians are not your Friends, period.
P.S you can take those stupid lecture and shove them up your behind, cheers.

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