Less than a week has passed since I announced my candidacy, and they’re already scared.
And what they’re scared of is exactly what I talked about in my campaign announcement video: elections. The first real elections in 20 years.
Television, vote rigging, criminal cases, and so on are not enough for them. They also need a candidate they can control.
The kind who doesn’t actually campaign, doesn’t raise money, says only what’s written on the cue card during debates, and “doesn’t make it personal.” In other words, just like it was in 1999, 2003, 2008, and 2012.
When, on the very first day, a campaign brings in 4,500 volunteers and 2,300 donors, of course that gets declared “harmful.”
They’ve started singing the same old tune: “the only question is whether it’s 5% or 10%.” We’ve seen this before:
So, in response to the Kremlin’s view that my participation in the election is “harmful,” here’s what I have to say:
- I consider it harmful that the Kremlin has both the right and the ability to decide that someone’s participation in an election is harmful. I’m running in this election in part to make sure that never happens again.
If you feel the same way, leave your email in support of my candidacy here: https://2018.navalny.com/
And here is my recent interview with TV Rain (an independent Russian TV channel). It covers this topic and much more — from Yeltsin to minimum wages.
