Constitutional Court began its consideration of the request to postpone the election to the State Duma – the Russian newspaper

Yesterday, the Constitutional Court began its consideration of the case to postpone the elections to the Duma to be held in 2016. In the “constitutionally significant purposes,” they planned to combine the elections to the regional authorities and conduct are not in December, and in September.

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The bill to postpone the elections was adopted in the first reading on June 19. “United Russia”, “Fair Russia” and LDPR consider reducing the term of office of the current deputies of the sixth convocation justified and logical. As the plenipotentiary representative of the State Duma in the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation Dmitry Vyatkin, in accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, “the bearer of sovereignty and the only source of power in the Russian Federation is its multinational people.” And the dilemma between the need for deputies to work out his term “day” or citizens of the most comfortable way to exercise their right to vote is not even worth it. However, the Communist faction in the issue of postponement of elections in a completely opposite position, the representative of the Communist Party Yuri Sinel’shchikov.

– In 2011, the voters passed the powers of deputies for a term of five years. For deputies from the Communist Party voted 12.6 million people, but now no one wanted to ask them if they agree to reduce the period of work of their elected representatives – said Sinel’shchikov. – Early elections require early resignation of acting deputies, but early dissolve the parliament can not.

The State Duma is going to consider a bill to postpone the election on July 3 and then leave for summer vacation

For this because the Federation Council considered it necessary to seek clarification from the Constitutional Court, while stressing that no specific legislation is discussed, and the possibility of a single principle “minor change the term of” Duma deputies. Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Construction Klishas pointed out that the voting day, and so determined not always the same, because over the years the Duma elections were appointed for the first or the third Sunday in December, and in addition, the calendar and the same third Sunday falls on different dates. At the same time, he said, “before the reduction or increase of technical nature, never the term of elections did not move on a monthly basis”.

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The representative of the President of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation Mikhail Krotov said that the situation in this case is no different. Enshrined in Article 96 of the Constitution of the Russian position that “The State Duma is elected for five years,” only shows that elections must be held every five years, and the period of the election is not identical to the term of office. Indirectly, this is indicated by, for example, the possibility of an early dissolution of Parliament by the President of the Russian Federation.

– The constitutional deadline can not be completely the same as the calendar period, – says Krotov. – And in this case the transfer is negligible, elections will be held in 2016.

Constitutional Court to re-examine all points of view in the closed mode. The date of the proclamation of the decision to be announced, it is expected this week.

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