| United Russia party congress.Vladimir Putin - Dmitry Medvedev September 24, 2011.Moscow В.Путин - Д.Медведев.Съезд партии Единая Россия.24 сентября 2011 года. Москва .Part 1 The President of Russia accepted the offer to head United Russia's party list in the State Duma elections on December 4, 2011. Dmitry Medvedev also proposed that the congress support the candidacy of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for president. PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Good afternoon, dear friends. Naturally, it's a pleasure to speak here: there is a special energy in this room, it's simply charged with emotions. And of course, we are meeting on a special day: there are ten weeks until election day, and today you will approve the lists of candidates for State Duma deputies and the party's campaign programme. A few words about how the elections will take place (I am obliged to say that as head of state, President and guarantor of the Constitution): they will be held under new rules. Thanks to a number of decisions in which you were directly involved, we have significantly revamped our electoral legislation. Together we have enacted a number of initiatives aimed at increasing the role of citizens in the work of governing institutions, in order to improve the quality of popular representation. And during this work United Russia has shown itself to be a strong and, I would even say, generous party, consistently improving the conditions for political competition. For many years now United ... |
