Vladimir Kozlov, director of the steering committee of the Alga! Party (Ahead!) that is still remains unregistered with the Justice Ministry,announced a new campaign to legalize the movement.
"We don’t need that registration any more. We publicly announce that we refuse to carry on with this procedure that has lasted for 1,000 and one day as of August 5,” he told reporters in Almaty on Wednesday.
"1,000 and 1 day is the Rubicon that if crossed should change the attitude and the essence of the event,” he said.
The party has no official explanation why its attempts to register have been blocked. "Тhose who created this deaden keep a dumb silence on the matter offering no comments. The situation obviously requires some “reloading”,” Kozlov said. The Alga! Party has been attempting to register since November 2006.
Kozlov says that the new law “On Parties” allows a steering committee of a party to legally function for 6 months. “If we our application is turned down again, or suspended, every six months we will organize a steering committee, hold an assembly and commence a new registration,” he said.
The Alga! Party had been trying to get registered for a number of years. However the justice agencies had never official refused the registration. In early June one of the Almaty courts sustained the decision of the special district administrative court concerning the leader of the unregistered Alga! Party (Go Ahead!), Vladimir Kozlov. The decision was issued on May 19, 2009 by the primary jurisdiction court to impose a fine of 127,000 tenge on Kozlov as he had been an acting leader of an unregistered party, which is treated as administrative offence. Thus, the Alga! Party was not allowed to exist any more.
Interfax-Kazakhstan
