Civil Platform "a virtual party" - Navalny campaign staff
MOSCOW. Aug 26 (Interfax) - Mayoral candidate Alexei Navlany's campaign staff is prepared to draw businessman Mikhail Prokhorov's Civil Platform party in election monitoring on September 8.
"We are cooperating with all independent observer movements. We, too, recruit and train observers and we will invite all sufficiently skilled people to do the election monitoring. We don' care who sends these people to us - Civil Platform or anyone else," the chief of Navlany's campaign staff, Leonid Volkov, told Interfax on Monday.
"I have doubts about Civil Platform's organizational talents, or its ability to mobilize and provide a large force of election monitors. But if they do, they will get the accreditations," Volkov said.
Civil Platform is "a virtual party with no real members or activists," he also said.
Civil Platform's press service said on Monday that it wants the mayoral candidates to give it the accreditation to monitor the mayoral elections on September 8.