Martynov: "Civic platform" becomes Patriotic party

The new leader of the Civil platform "Rifat Shaikhutdinov has the support not only in most of the regional offices, but also in the capital of Russia, as if tried to provide some former members of this party," said the newspaper VIEW political analyst Alexei Martynov.
last Tuesday party conference "Civic platform" the head of the Federal political Committee of the party Rifat Shaikhutdinov said, the vast number of regional offices " SE ", 48 regions, hosted a party conference and called for the holding of the extraordinary Congress of the party." for this reason, on April 17, we collect our Congress "- quoted Shaikhutdinova RIA " Novosti ". Remember the beginning of March 2015 in the party was a scandal because of its authorized participation in the March "Intimidad" whose members actively criticized one of the authorized political Committee of GP Andrei Makarevich for position on Ukraine. In the end, the scandal 13 March about his withdrawal from the party said in practice all members of the political Affairs Committee, including Makarevich, Prokhorov, his sister, Irina, TV presenter Alexander Lyubimov and lawyer Mikhail Barshchevsky. Before Prokhorov initiated resignation Shaikhutdinova down as head of the political Affairs Committee, but After billionaire from the party, Shaikhutdinov returned to the leadership. On the same day has been decided to build the party Congress, and before that a regional conference to develop a common position of party members, and on the Ukrainian question. Then Shaikhutdinov held on 24 March party conference With the participation of commissioners of the regional offices, so they expressed their position against the party leadership. April 17 is obliged to place party Congress. Director of the international Institute of the newest countries Alexey Martynov sure That " in the majority, it (Shaikhutdinova - approx. OPINION) support in the regions - I mean the honest party members ". The interviewee said That it was "cleansing" Civic platform " from a number of people, including those who stood at its source some time ago." Civic platform " becomes normal, liberal, Patriotic party ". Those who chose not to participate, may not participate, the analyst added: "What to do?! They strangely imagine the political activity: how the destruction, undermining the state system and the overthrow of the regime. This is some kind of Bolshevism, not liberalism ", - said the expert. However, he drew attention to the fact That a liberal and a patriot Is not two words are antonyms. The liberal has the ability to be a patriot, and moreover, there must be a patriot, if engaged in politics, loves his country wants good things for her, " explained the analyst.- we, unfortunately, have bred these two concepts into a discourse between liberals and patriots." The interviewee added That sense which is currently payable with the filing of the media and parts of newsmakers in the term "Liberal" wrong." in a sense we are all liberals, we are for freedom: free market, free speech, freedom of conscience and so on, we are against totalitarianism and other things where we once lived, " drew the attention of the analyst. As for the so-called "liberal party with a minus sign - It is not the liberals, and destructors, which are the small liberal lexicon for destructive purposes, with certain tasks, for some money from certain places and States" - concluded the expert.


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