First is the struggle for priority either ideology or of common sense, second is a struggle for supremacy either of the party or of the state, and third is the struggle for redistribution of power and property. In part, it was due to the objective tasks of perestroika itself that we had so many lanes, so many trends of confrontation within perestroika process" (Yakovlev). At this point, the party was too busy restoring its image and trying to prove to its people that life could be good; as a result, these three struggles show how perestroika was developed and implemented. Gorbachev had a choice, he could turn perestroika into "a truly, people"s democratic revolution, going to the utmost, really bringing the society total freedom, or to remain a Communist reformer, operating in the familiar and controlled milieu of the party bureaucracy" (Sneider). He attempted to make a society that was totally free, but this obviously did not happen. In 1990, Gorbachev again had an opportunity to allow perestroika to be seen as a glorious theory that will save the nation when "Article Six of the Constitution giving the Communist Party a monopoly had been abolished and a presidential system was to be established" (Nadler). Nevertheless, he chose to be elected by the Congress instead of by the people; this was his greatest mistake. Again, a cover- up was made. While he did allow elections to take place, Congress chose him in reality. The only person on the ballot ticket was Mikhail Gorbachev of the former communist party. No one was allowed to run because the government did not choose him or her. "Perestroika didn"t manage to overcome itself. Public, social, and political forces awakened by it remained unclaimed, while the old structure continued to exist and act against reform" (Sneider). It brought another result that was unforeseen; the "emergence of powerful nationalist movements in the fifteen republics of the Soviet empire.