The Federation Council on June 24 to discuss the draft request to the Constitutional Court, which must assess the legality of the transfer of the State Duma elections in 2016, from December 4 to 18 September. On Monday it was assumed that the request to the Constitutional Court, the State Duma will send itself. On the morning of profile Duma committee on state building recommended it for adoption, and in the afternoon the State Duma Council included this document in the agenda of the plenary session on Tuesday, June 16. However, in the evening the Speaker of the State Duma Sergei Naryshkin suddenly announced that the court would not request the deputies and senators. “We took into account the fact that in relation to this large and important topic in the Council of the Federation increasingly acts as a neutral party” – said Naryshkin.
The Senators do not object to the transfer of the Duma elections, but they, apparently, did not like the fact that after the State Duma will also have to reduce or increase the terms of office of the regional and municipal legislatures. Under current law, in the case of coincidence of the regional and municipal elections to federal parliamentary, they are not held in the single day of voting in September, and on the day of elections to the Duma – the first Sunday of December. The bill to postpone the election to repeal this rule and carry out the 2016 local elections on the same day the Duma – September 18.
In the State Duma hopes that the senators’ request to the Constitutional Court will not differ from that prepared and intended send members of the lower house of parliament. They are well familiar with the article of the Constitution, which states that the federal deputies are elected for five years, and, as they say, “the point.” However, lawmakers are sure to postpone the election for three months and trim life Chamber of possible “in order to constitutionally significant.” As the text of the draft request prepared by the Duma, established under the MPs understand “synchronization timing of the elections, combining days of voting in elections of different levels and the introduction of a single day of voting”, which for several years now falls to us as time in September.
In addition, speak Okhotny Ryad, the day of the federal elections in Russia will not always come to the same date. “An analysis of federal legislation shows that the elections were carried out in the first, second or third Sunday of December of the year” – the document says. But, most importantly, to choose it is only offered in September the State Duma of the seventh convocation, which is thus an exception to the rule (in the history of Russian parliamentarism, since 1993).
Address request to the Constitutional Court is not other than as an attempt to forestall and knock the cards out of the hands of the Communist Party, which was the only Duma faction whose leader Gennady Zyuganov decided not to put his signature to the bill on the postponement of the elections. Hypothetically, the complaint of the Communist Party in the court to postpone the election could undermine the legitimacy of the new Duma. The positive conclusion of the Constitutional Court before the adoption of the law by the State Duma (and the fact that it will be like this, no doubt), nullifying the attempt of the Communists to protest the law after it is signed by the president.
“Everyone understands that Now if the COP does not find contradictions in the Constitution to postpone the election, further attempts to challenge the law will look ridiculous, “- he said in an interview with the correspondent of” Rosbalt “a source in the Communist Party. Although in words the Communists continue to argue that their complaint will be urgent, as there were many cases when the State Duma “misinterpreted the findings of the COP”.
It seems that the authorities will be able to stop the scandal, not only around the “unconstitutionality “of the law to postpone the election, but the” golden parachutes “that promised the deputies. On compensation from the federal budget may take up to 714 million rubles – about 1.6 million rubles per one member of parliament (not including social benefits, including parliamentary apartment in Moscow, as well as the inviolability of which the MPs will retain until 4 December 2016) . However, the money will be needed only if the new Duma will not be able to pass all the 450 deputies present.
However, the country three months have actually contain two parliaments, one of which will continue to exist only in accounting statements. However, as soon as the communists and other critics of the law were quick to call the upcoming elections “literally gold”, came to the forefront of the Liberal Democratic Party MPs, who said that the amended act on the abolition of the “golden parachutes” (though this bill is listed under the signature of the party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky) .
Despite all kontrpiar, in the State Duma are not willing to admit that de facto it is not a transfer, but the early parliamentary elections, the base of which is also described in detail in the Constitution. At the moment, they simply do not (one of them – the dissolution of the State Duma). The explanatory note to the bill MPs argue the necessity of making the transfer of the election the new members of the House have regular federal budget, consideration of which the Duma traditionally begins in October. However, any deputy with experience confirms that the main work on the budget is in May and the summer months, including August, that is, just at the peak of a future election campaign.
Unofficially, the need for early elections in the State Duma explained banal fear of the authorities before the protracted economic crisis, which has no end in sight, and as a consequence, the growth of dissent in the country (although the parties are able to become their mouthpiece, the chances of passage in parliament is not). “Maybe it was just after the December” marsh “protests seen as a cursed month,” – he said in an interview with “Rosbalt” one of the deputies, who bluntly said that he saw no “rational arguments” in favor of redrawing the electoral calendar.
In the meantime, on the Okhotny dominant version of that moving the elections in September, the Kremlin expects difficult for the opposition to conduct an election campaign, which falls on the holidays, as well as hope for the low turnout at the sites. Thus, it is a safety net for the “United Russia”, which, together with members of the ONF, running in single-mandate constituencies, should once get a majority in the Duma.
At the same time on the Okhotny there are persistent rumors that transfer saga elections may end up that they eventually did not take place in September, and in October, as originally sought Communist Party (it is only in the last days of the desired date moved to November 4). The fact that such a scenario can not be excluded, indirectly confirmed plans deputies did not hurry with the adoption of the entire package of bills before the end of the spring session, and continue the conversation in the fall.
Elena Zemskova
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