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Russian political system needs “some modification” says new party leader

BBC Monitoring

Businessman Mikhail Prokhorov, who was today elected leader of the Right Cause party, has said the least his party is aiming for is to get in the State Duma and the most is to get about 15 per cent of the vote.

At a news conference following his election as the party leader, Prokhorov said he had a negative attitude to the One Russia ruling party. At the same time, Prokhorov said, Vladimir Putin, Russian prime minister and the leader of One Russia, must have become more critical of his party too, otherwise he would not have set up the All-Russia People’s Front.

“Had things been going well for One Russia, one would not have set up People’s Front,” Prokhorov said in an interview to the “Vesti on Saturday” programme on the official Rossiya 1 TV channel on the same day.