Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Prokhorov demanded meeting “Civic Platform” because “Antimaydana” – RBC

Prokhorov demanded meeting "Civic Platform" because "Antimaydana" – RBC

Businessman Mikhail Prokhorov

Photo: REUTERS 2015

The businessman Mikhail Prokhorov is going to convene an extraordinary meeting of the Federal Civil Committee” Civic Platform “after participating in the procession party” Antimaydan. ” This was Prokhorov wrote in his blog in Livejournal.

According to him, “so decided unilaterally party leader, not consulting with any of the members of the political or civil committees».

The businessman said that participation in such actions “has little to do with the ideology of the” Civic Platform “, which was originally the basis of the party, bringing together millions of people».

On Saturday in the center of Moscow Rally “Do not forget, not forgive “organized movement” Antimaydan “on the anniversary of the overthrow of Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych. According to the Metropolitan Police, per share came to about 35 thousand. Man, one of the organizers of the march, Senator Dmitry Sablin, estimated the number who came in 50 th. The action including participated leader of “Night Wolves” Alexander Zaldostanov (surgeon), and Speaker of the Parliament of breakaway New Russia, ex-deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Oleg Tsarev. The action started on Pushkin Square and ended with a rally at Revolution Square, where they made including Vika Cyganova and Julia Chicherin.

In the federal civil party committee includes the most famous figures of “Civic Platform”. Among them – Andrei Makarevich, Elizabeth Glinka, Ulitskaya. Ulitskaja told RBC that is not involved in the work of civil committee after Irina Prokhorov left the presidency of the party.

Irina Prokhorov as chairman of the federal civil party committee left in mid-October. “In a situation where the position Prokhorova foreign policy at odds with the position of the majority of party members, this is an honest act, and he certainly adopted for the development of” Civic Platform “, – said the head of the federal political party committee Rifat Shaĭkhutdinov.

At the end of December 2014, Prokhorov stopped funding the “Civic Platform” .Then Shaikhutdinov said: “Mikhail [Prokhorov] is a member of the federal civil party committee and, accordingly, a member of the party itself. No leadership positions it does not take. We have created a batch of 12 people, 11 continue to finance it. A year we do not live at the expense of Mikhail Prokhorov ».

Until May last year was a major political strategists Shaikhutdinov party. However, on the eve of the annual election campaign in regions Prokhorov announced that he intends to engage in long-term economic development of the party platform, therefore resigns direct its head.

Rifat Shaĭkhutdinov in 2003 he was elected to the State Duma from the Liberal Democratic Party. When Prokhorov headed the “just cause” in 2011, Shaikhutdinov led the campaign headquarters of the party. Prokhorov explained the choice of the fact that Shaikhutdinova have experience campaigning in a competitive environment: in 2010 Shaikhutdinov worked at the headquarters of the presidential candidate of Ukraine Yatsenyuk, recalls the source RBK, who participated in the campaign “right things”. According to the source, the party is often talked about the proximity to the curator Shaikhutdinova domestic policy Vladislav Surkov: in close to the Kremlin “Europe” published a book about the threats Shaikhutdinova power.

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