Alexei Navalny’s Program as a Candidate for Mayor of Moscow

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MOSCOW

PROGRAM

for the candidate for mayor of Moscow

Alexei Navalny

2013

CHANGE RUSSIA, START WITH MOSCOW

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PROGRAM FOR THE CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR OF MOSCOW ALEXEI NAVALNY

Moscow has sufficient resources to become a comfortable city, not lagging behind other European capitals in quality of life. A city in which free citizens have a sense of dignity and can directly influence the policies of the city authorities.

Moscow's budget is more than 1.6 trillion rubles per year, comparable to New York City's budget. Per Muscovite, including children, that is more than 140 thousand rubles. This money is certainly enough to make life in Moscow—for the rich and the poor, for the young and the elderly—no worse than in any European capital.

Why, then, despite these enormous resources, have the Moscow authorities still been unable to deal with traffic jams, crime, police abuse, the low quality of healthcare and education, and the poor condition of urban space? The answer is very simple: theft and inefficient spending of the city's funds.

The issue here is not specific individuals, but the archaic management principles that are applied in Moscow and that do not meet the needs of a modern metropolis. Neither a simple change of officials' surnames nor—still less—the preservation of the current team will make it possible to change the very system of power in the city, to make it capable of responding to modern challenges.

Moscow needs: complete transparency in all decisions, accountability of the authorities to the citizens, and victory over corruption. It is precisely thanks to this that it will be possible to free up enormous resources that will allow us to solve the key problems of our city.

Moscow's problems and the ways to solve them are so obvious that many candidates promise the same thing. Among them, one must choose the one who will not deceive the voters. The authorities have shown that they can only make promises.

PROGRAM OF ALEXEI NAVALNY, CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR OF MOSCOW

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Program of Alexei Navalny, candidate for mayor of Moscow

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WHY CAN ALEXEI NAVALNY DO THIS, WHILE OTHERS CANNOT?

• Navalny has unique many years of experience successfully fighting theft and inefficient spending of budget money — the RosPil project alone prevented the inefficient spending of more than 50 billion rubles in budget funds.

• Navalny knows Moscow’s problems firsthand: he lives in an ordinary apartment in Maryino, sits in traffic with us, his children attend a regular school and kindergarten, and the whole family uses an ordinary district clinic.

• Navalny created the “Committee for the Protection of Muscovites” and led its work in fighting infill development and illegal construction in 2004–2008.

• Navalny conducts all of his activities publicly and transparently, reporting on each of his projects, on each of his steps.

• Navalny owes nothing to the federal authorities; he is not tied hand and foot by a system of controlled arrangements with bureaucrats and bureaucratic clans.

OUR MAIN GOALS

• Building an honest, accountable to Muscovites, and replaceable city government.

• Solving transportation problems.

• Victory over police arbitrariness, personal safety at the level of “we are not afraid to let children go outside alone.”

• Reducing illegal immigration, which has a negative impact on the labor market and leads to rising crime and social tension.

• A decent standard of living for pensioners.

• Access to high-quality housing and utility services, healthcare, and education for everyone, including socially vulnerable city residents.

• Creating a favorable environment for business development — eliminating administrative barriers and officials’ arbitrariness.

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MAIN WAYS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS

• Full transparency in the decision-making process and the spending of budget funds in the city, transparency of municipal enterprises and the terms for leasing municipal property.

• Direct participation of residents in determining the city's development priorities — holding referendums at the city and municipal levels on key issues.

• Creating an efficient public transportation system.

• Creating a functioning system of paid parking (with prices affordable for local residents).

• Expanding the powers and budgetary independence of municipalities.

• Ending infill development.

• Creating conditions for competition (including full transparency of prices and terms for receiving services) in the housing and utilities system, healthcare, and education, with a real opportunity to choose management companies, clinics, and schools.

• A significant increase in funds allocated to targeted social assistance, using resources saved through the victory over corruption.

• Creating a system for the integration and legalization of migrants and their family members, transparency in the wage payment system, and zero tolerance for violations of migration legislation at municipal enterprises, in municipal services, and in companies working under city contracts.

• Creating a system for electing justices of the peace.

• Creation of a municipal police force accountable to the citizens of Moscow.

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CHANGES IN MOSCOW — THE KEY TO CHANGES IN RUSSIA

The creation of functioning political institutions on a national scale—an independent judiciary, fair elections, and a government that is replaceable and accountable—is our long-term political goal. The whole country needs change. We propose starting with Moscow and ensuring the basic constitutional rights of citizens in our city:

• holding mass events on a notification basis;

• elimination of censorship in city media;

• ensuring the rights of election observers and public oversight over the conduct of elections at all stages: from candidate registration to vote counting;

• term limits—no one may be elected mayor for more than two terms.

TRANSPARENCY AND THE FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION

The mayor has nothing to hide from his voters. Honest government is the main mechanism for solving Moscow's problems.

The city economy and budget are used inefficiently because of corruption, incompetence, and disregard for the interests of residents. According to estimates by RosPil, about half of public procurement in Moscow is conducted on a non-competitive basis — by this indicator, Moscow is ahead of all other major regions of Russia. The lack of competition in public procurement leads to inflated prices. As a result, citizens lose 150 billion rubles annually (about 30 thousand rubles per family).

We will ensure full transparency in decision-making and in the city's revenues and expenditures. Transparency in the city economy will make it possible to create effective public oversight and free up significant funds to solve the city's problems and provide targeted assistance to those in need.

1. The principle of full transparency should apply to public procurement, to enterprises owned by the city, and to housing and utilities, education, and healthcare institutions.

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2. Ensuring competition and transparency in all public procurement of the Moscow budget and enterprises belonging to the city.

3. Publication of information on the results of completed work and the achievement of goals specified in contracts, as well as warranties for facilities (roads, landscaping, repairs, construction).

4. Creation of an institution of contract inspectors — certified experts empowered to inspect procurements, request documents, and suspend procedures in the event of violations being identified. Publication of reports on the activities of contract inspectors.

5. Limiting the cost of official cars for Moscow officials to no more than 1.5 million rubles.

6. Publication on the internet of detailed financial information (budgets, contracts, staffing schedules, summarized accounting information) about the activities of city structures, municipal enterprises, housing and utilities management companies, schools, hospitals, and clinics.

7. Publication of rental rates for each municipal real estate property offered for lease.

8. A systematic withdrawal of the city from non-core assets and enterprises operating in competitive markets, in order to eliminate feeding troughs for corrupt officials.

9. Introduction of modern corporate governance practices at city-controlled enterprises: professional boards of directors with independent directors, a competitive procedure for appointing top managers, publication of financial information, including information on management remuneration.

REFORM OF CITY GOVERNMENT: ACCOUNTABILITY AND DECENTRALIZATION

Moscow is a city the size of an entire country (in most countries of the world, fewer than 10 million people live there). Such a large city cannot be governed from a single office. The problems of every house and apartment building entrance are better known—and therefore can be solved—not by the mayor, but by municipalities. That is why it is necessary to transfer the authority to make many decisions to municipalities —

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and support these powers with financial resources. It is also necessary to ensure effective and timely feedback from citizens. The key mechanism for such feedback is, of course, fair elections.

1. Holding citywide and district referendums when making important decisions in the city and district. The use of electronic democracy, including for public hearings and advisory voting on key issues at the local and city levels.

2. Transfer of powers and resources to municipalities, including part of the personal income tax and property tax. Facilitation of the speedy introduction of a real estate tax.

3. Real participation of municipal deputies in decision-making at the district and prefecture levels. Gradual abolition of district administrations and prefectures with the distribution of powers between local authorities and city hall departments. When powers are transferred to the municipal level, prefectures will not be needed.

4. Creation of a functioning electronic complaint system regarding the actions of city officials.

5. Introduction of the election of justices of the peace. Magistrates' courts consider three quarters of the cases that go to courts of general jurisdiction: almost all administrative cases, family cases, property disputes. The introduction of the election of justices of the peace will increase judges' independence from administrative pressure and the objectivity of legal proceedings.

Who holds power here

Municipal deputies represent their voters and their problems 120 times better

600 000

5000

35 (Moscow City Duma)

1800 municipal deputies

16,000,000,000 rubles

1,600,000,000,000 rubles

6. Co-financing local initiatives: the city allocates money for local initiatives at the district level provided that municipal deputies find co-financing.

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TRANSPORT

Traffic jams are, of course, Moscow's biggest problem. The authorities have shown their inability (or unwillingness) to cope with this problem. Improving the transport situation is a key priority of the program.

The main causes of transport problems in Moscow:

• low connectivity and density of the road network — to get to a neighboring district, you have to go through the center, the Third Ring, or the MKAD;

• underdevelopment of public transport — it is inconvenient, runs infrequently and irregularly, and moves along the same streets clogged with cars;

• chaotic parking — everyone parks however they want;

• the work of the traffic police — it creates traffic jams instead of fighting them;

• the construction lobby — it is interested in huge infrastructure projects unrelated to the real needs of the transport system;

• infill development — every infill development project creates a new traffic jam.

The most congested cities in the world in 2012

City Congestion level, %

MOSCOW (during rush hour) 138

MOSCOW (average) 66

Istanbul 55

Warsaw 42

Marseille 40

Los Angeles 33

Rome 33

Source: navigator manufacturer TomTom, TomTom Congestion Index, 2013

Average commute time to work

City min.

London 44.0

MOSCOW 42.5

Tokyo 38.0

Los Angeles 35.0

Île-de-France 33.4

Madrid 29.7

Berlin 27.2

Source: navigation device manufacturer TomTom, TomTom Congestion Index, 2013

How much time Moscow residents spend in traffic jams

16 days a year a Moscow resident spends in traffic jams

Source: navigation device manufacturer TomTom, TomTom Congestion Index, 2013

Traffic jams lengthen every trip:

• on average, 2/3 of the usual travel time

• during rush hours, 2.5 times

Source: navigator manufacturer TomTom, TomTom Congestion Index, 2013

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We propose the following solutions:

1. Elimination of illegal parking. Ending the unauthorized seizure of parking space by state and private organizations. Universal enforcement of parking rules — everywhere, always, and for everyone. Creation of a special city service to monitor compliance with parking rules and collect fines. Clearing sidewalks, crossings, lawns, and playgrounds of motor vehicles. Encouraging the construction of new above-ground and underground parking lots and garages.

2. A convenient citywide system of paid parking. The current authorities still have not managed to create a functioning parking system, which is extremely important for combating traffic jams.

3. Targeted solutions, not multibillion-dollar projects. Building new major roads on the principle of «the bigger and more expensive, the better» cannot solve the traffic jam problem. What is needed is the elimination of specific bottlenecks (increasing the uniformity of traffic capacity, for example, in the case of wide roads that run into narrow ones), improving the connectivity of the road network, bridges over and tunnels under railways and highways, interchanges, and new streets providing links between districts.

Comparison of the cost of travel by public transport and by car

What the cost of commuting to and from work consists of

The driver's direct trip expenses (fuel, depreciation, insurance, etc.)

5-15%

Source: http://citypeople.ru

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4. A breakthrough in the development of public transportation. In all developed cities, the overwhelming majority of the population uses public transportation because it is faster and more convenient than traveling by car. The following are necessary: • development of surface transport modes moving along dedicated lanes, and effective enforcement of the ban on using dedicated lanes for private vehicles; • increasing the frequency and regularity of surface transport service; real-time online monitoring of buses, trolleybuses, and trams (on the overwhelming majority of routes, buses, trolleybuses, and trams should run every 5 minutes); • investment to make public transportation more comfortable and modern: increased capacity, convenient boarding, comfortable seats, air conditioners, and Wi-Fi in surface transport and the metro; • integration of different modes of transport (surface transport, metro, and commuter trains, convenient transfers and unified tickets, creation of modern transfer hubs and park-and-ride facilities); • development of inter-district connections — introduction of new routes for surface public transportation.

469 357 817 900 rub. 32% 25% 7% 36% 167 144 336 700 rub. 171 003 594 300 rub. 104 281 616 300 rub. 26 928 170 600 rub.

Cost of converting Leningradsky Prospekt into a signal-free arterial road 42 000 000 000 rub. total estimated cost, rub. 18 000 000 000 rub. estimated cost of building interchanges 9 000 000 000 rub. cost of constructing a high-speed tram line (according to project experts)

60-80 km/h speed on the signal-free arterial road

Source: "Transport and Moscow" http://www.transmoscow.ru/article_29.html

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5. Work with the traffic police, which must stop violations that cause traffic jams, in particular parking violations, entering an occupied intersection, etc. Assigning problem areas to specific units, monitoring the work of the traffic police in each area. Increasing the promptness of the traffic police in dealing with the consequences of road accidents. Monitoring the uniform application of traffic rules and the Code of Administrative Offenses to all categories of citizens.

6. Complete cessation of infill development.

7. Independent expert review of major projects. No transport infrastructure project costing more than 1 billion rubles may proceed without an independent international expert review at the pre-project stage.

ILLEGAL MIGRATION

The slave-like condition of illegal migrants benefits their employers, among whom there are also city structures. Corrupt officials or contractors hire illegal migrants for pennies and pocket most of the allocated budget funds. At the same time, migrants are in a position of slavery, subjected to abuse and extortion. In addition, illegal migration is a breeding ground for violence and crime. We believe that in Moscow — and even more so in the municipal economy — there should be no place for slaveholding and systematic violation of the law.

By the number of illegal migrants, Moscow ranks 2nd in the world 50% — (part of the chart indicating the share of crimes related to migration) 20% — (part of the chart indicating another share; the caption is not fully legible) From 20 thousand to 160 thousand — estimates of the number of illegal migrants in Moscow (according to various estimates)

1. Preventing the use of illegal labor in the municipal economy. Companies fulfilling municipal contracts must not use the labor of migrants who do not have work permits. Violation of this requirement should become grounds for contract termination and financial penalties.

2. Control over the legality of the use of labor, primarily at municipal economy enterprises, construction, and retail trade.

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3. Full publication of staffing schedules and salaries at municipal enterprises. This will help avoid hiring illegal migrants for part of the funds allocated to pay for their labor.

4. Oversight of places where migrants live compactly, prevention of the creation of criminal ethnic ghettos. The Moscow government cannot replace federal agencies (the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Migration Service), but it will appeal to them with a demand to monitor compliance with the law and publish information on how they are fulfilling their duties.

5. Organization of centers for educating migrants' children, facilitating their integration into Moscow schools, and teaching them the Russian language. This will give them the opportunity to study normally and will contribute to decriminalization.

6. Submission of proposals to federal authorities on restricting migration and introducing a visa regime with the countries of Central Asia.

Housing and Utilities

To improve the quality of housing and utility services and reduce their cost, transparency and competition are necessary. Muscovites should have the opportunity to choose a management company. Their choice should be based on timely and accurate information about the services and rates of competing management companies.

1. Professional independent audit of management companies and resource-supplying organizations in order to determine their efficiency and cost-cutting reserves. Publication of the audit results.

2. Combating collusion among management companies. The Moscow government will identify cases of collusion among management companies, go to court and the Federal Antimonopoly Service, and publish a list of suspicious management companies.

3. Informing citizens about their right to choose a management company and about the procedure for changing the management company. Ensuring transparency in the activities of homeowners' associations (HOAs). Mandatory publication of data on the work of HOAs. An information campaign about the opportunities and rights of HOAs.

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4. Careful monitoring and reduction of inflated investment and operating costs of utility suppliers, preventing these costs from being shifted onto residents through tariff increases.

5. Co-financing of capital repairs. For every ruble invested by Muscovites in capital repairs, there should be three rubles invested by the Moscow Government. The acceptance certificate for capital repair work must be approved by the general meeting of owners.

HEALTHCARE

The main goal is to create in Moscow a network of modern and high-quality clinics and hospitals accessible to every Muscovite. To do this, it is necessary to move away from “line-item” financing (regardless of the quantity and quality of services provided) to the principle of “money follows the patient.” At the same time, every Muscovite must have the right to choose which doctor and which clinic or hospital (regardless of ownership form) to go to, and the budget or insurance company will pay the organization he chooses. This will create competition among healthcare institutions and will encourage them to provide higher-quality services.

1. Elimination of artificial bureaucratic barriers when making an appointment at a clinic. Electronic appointment booking must be open at least three months in advance, and the patient must have the opportunity to choose any clinic, while specialists receiving patients on the day of обращения will be on duty in all district clinics.

2. Creation of an effectively functioning system for accounting and payment of medical services based on insurance principles. Patients and medical workers should not waste extra time and nerves filling out unnecessary paperwork. Modern technologies will allow the patient not to think about how settlements are arranged between the budget, the insurance company, and the clinic or hospital.

3. Replacement of the ineffective system of supplementary drug provision with universal drug insurance. It is not the patient but his insurance company that pays for the medicines prescribed by the doctor. For needy Muscovites, insurance is paid from the city budget.

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4. Every Muscovite will have the opportunity to choose their own general practitioner, certified by the Department of Health. Treatment within the established rates will be paid for by the insurance company.

5. Development of technologies that replace inpatient treatment. If a patient does not require round-the-clock inpatient monitoring, they should have the opportunity to receive all necessary medical care at home.

EDUCATION

Secondary education must remain free. To improve its quality, increased funding and linking it to the school's performance results are necessary. This will become a reality when the activities of schools are transparent, and parents have the opportunity to choose a school for their child and participate in governance.

1. Widespread establishment of boards of trustees and parent councils in schools and kindergartens. Publication of reports on the work of the councils.

2. Publication of financial indicators of schools and kindergartens. Collection and publication of statistics on the further education and employment of school graduates. Publication of average Unified State Exam results for each school.

3. The possibility of choosing a school. The use of modern methods of assigning children to schools. These methods, taking into account the preferences of children and the requirements of schools, make it possible to avoid overcrowding in popular schools. These algorithms are successfully used in many American and European cities, for example, New York, Boston, and Paris. Their invention was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize in Economics.

A DECENT LIFE FOR ALL

Every Muscovite has the right to a decent life. Moscow is a sufficiently wealthy city to ensure access to quality healthcare and housing and utilities services for everyone, regardless of income and physical ability. Through funds saved thanks to increased transparency and reduced corruption, we will be able to substantially expand targeted social support for all those who need it, including pensioners and people with disabilities, as well as improve the universally accessible urban environment.

1. Accessibility of medical care: the city budget will pay for health insurance, including prescription drug coverage, for socially vulnerable categories of Muscovites; for example, pensioners should not have to pay for medicines.

2. Affordability of housing and utility services: the city will pay for a “social minimum” of utility consumption. A reasonable amount of kilowatts and liters of water will be available free of charge to socially vulnerable and low-income residents. Additional kilowatts will be paid for at the market rate. The city will provide all Muscovites with meters.

3. Accessibility of public transport: socially vulnerable categories of Muscovites should not have to pay for public transport.

4. A city for everyone: ensuring accessibility of public transport and all city and municipal buildings for people with disabilities and residents with strollers.

5. A radical increase in spending on urban improvement: beautification of courtyards, repair of sidewalks and building facades, removal of unnecessary fences, creation and expansion of green spaces.

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REMOVING ADMINISTRATIVE BARRIERS FOR BUSINESS

Creating jobs is the business of business, not the state. The mayor’s task is to create conditions and remove barriers to business development. The international “Ease of Doing Business” ranking showed that Moscow today is the worst city in Russia (out of 30 cities that participated in the study). According to this ranking, Moscow lags behind the largest cities of Pakistan, Egypt, and Vietnam—and far behind the capitals of Chile, Mexico, and Eastern European countries. This is due to the lack of government accountability and its inability to fight corruption.

1. Reducing administrative barriers. It is necessary to fully implement the “road maps” for improving the business climate, and to simplify and shorten the procedures related to starting and running a business.

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2. Fighting extortion. The Moscow government will systematically fight extortion by officials—both city and federal.

3. The Moscow government will ensure a level playing field for all companies: large and small, private, municipal, and state-owned. This concerns access to public procurement, leasing, and the purchase of premises.

4. A special priority is increasing transparency in the area of construction regulation, with justified criteria and timelines for the necessary approvals. At the same time, strict compliance with construction deadlines and the elimination of long-term unfinished projects through fines for missing facility completion deadlines.

Moscow is currently the most uncomfortable city for doing business

1 Ulyanovsk 0.59 2 Saransk 0.53 3 Vladikavkaz 0.53 4 Rostov-on-Don 0.51 5 Kazan 0.51 6 Kaluga 0.51 7 Stavropol 0.5 8 Yaroslavl 0.5 9 Surgut 0.5 10 Irkutsk 0.47 11 Petrozavodsk 0.46 12 Kirov 0.46 13 Omsk 0.46 14 Vyborg 0.45 15 Vladivostok 0.45 16 Volgograd 0.45 17 Voronezh 0.45 18 Tver 0.44 19 Kaliningrad 0.44 20 Tomsk 0.44 21 Samara 0.44 22 Saint Petersburg 0.43 23 Khabarovsk 0.43 24 Yekaterinburg 0.43 25 Perm 0.42 26 Murmansk 0.42 27 Kemerovo 0.42 28 Yakutsk 0.41 29 Novosibirsk 0.4 30 MOSCOW 0.4

Source: Doing Business in Russia 2012 http://www.doingbusiness.org/reports/subnational-reports/russia

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POLICE

Citizens are often more afraid of the police than of criminals. This is due to the fact that the police are not accountable to Muscovites. We will fight for the creation of a municipal police force that can ensure a decent level of safety—when none of us will be afraid to let a child go outside alone. But even before the municipal police are created, we will not sit idly by.

1. The city will hire private security companies to patrol the streets and maintain order. Since they do not yet have police powers, they will call the police in the event of a disturbance of public order.

2. A network of “safe city” video cameras. Monitoring the quality of police work by individual areas and units.

3. Investigation of cases of offenses and crimes committed by police officers.

4. Publication of the results of monitoring and investigations and submission of them to federal executive authorities.

Number of police officers per 100 thousand population in cities around the world (people)

222 Vancouver, Canada 493 London, United Kingdom 946 Moscow, Russia 393 Hong Kong, China 439 New York, USA 557 Delhi, India 211 Jakarta, Indonesia 239 Singapore, Singapore

Source: open statistical data from law enforcement agencies

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