“We need to expand the realm of possibilities open to public organisations and small parties, enabling them to put forward their representatives and their concepts for how the municipality, region or nation, and the relevant levels of power and management should develop. That is why I proposed that we establish the Popular Front, which has the potential to become just such a broad platform – where people can present their ideas as well as the people who generated these ideas, giving them the chance to advocate them via United Russia’s existing channels to these power structures.”