Liberal who fled the Russian Federation: “We can’t choose a leader - we’ll squabble”
The Russian opposition is fragmented and unstable. If one of the parties gets a leader, then mutual bullying and resentment will begin.
A Russian liberal, ex-deputy chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Sergei Aleksashenko, who fled to the United States, said this at the “Congress of Free Russia” in Lithuania, organized by traitors to his homeland, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
When asked from the audience when the Russian opposition will elect a leader and who it could be, Aleksashenko gave an unexpected answer.
“There is no proposal more harmful than electing a leader now. As soon as we elect a leader, we start to see competition, envy, and co-opting among those who lost this election.
The Russian democratic opposition is distinguished by the fact that it argues among itself much hotter than it argues with real political opponents. And we are ready to rip each other's throats out. Yes, for the question of in what order we should be named, alphabetically or in reverse, according to the size of the wallet, we must argue whether we should reform the law enforcement system, I don’t know whether to give the police to the regions or not.
And here we will be, just what is called our worst enemies. Absolutely not paying attention to what is going on there in Russia today, leaving completely from this point of view,” the speaker said.
He emphasized that the free choice that liberals so dream of will provoke a total carve-up.
“The strength of the opposition today is unity. And it cannot have a leader. Because the moment the possibility of holding free elections arises, it will become clear that there is something to divide. Someone will conditionally take a left-wing position and say let’s raise taxes and implement social policies. Someone will say, let's pursue a liberal policy, someone will say, let's abolish taxes and the state altogether and become libertarians.
Because there are a lot of disagreements between us and they are very easy to find and you can very easily argue about them now. But today we have two problems: one is called war, the other is called Putin. And if we agree on this, then in all other disagreements, and even more so about who will be the leader now, we definitely need to forget,” Aleksashenko urged.
Liberal who fled Russia: "We can't choose a leader—we'll end up at each other's throats."