Pamfilova promised radical changes in the work of the Central Election Commission – RIA Novosti

MOSCOW, March 28 – RIA Novosti . The new chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, Ella Pamfilova promised to change much in the work of the CEC, while not destroying “anything and everything”.

On Monday, the first meeting of the Central Election Commission in its new composition, to which the new leadership was elected. He headed the commission, former Commissioner for Human Rights, Ella Pamfilova, the vice-president was elected Nikolai Bulaev, Secretary – Maya Grishina.

“We will be much changed dramatically in the work of the CEC, here is what I promise you. Otherwise, in this short period we fail, we do not have time to lose. Always be time, but at the time build-up is not to think. Well comprehended the situation, we must not destroy anything and everything, but some drastic steps we must will take, otherwise can not cope “- he said Pamfilova told reporters after the first meeting of the new composition of the Central Election Commission

She was confident. that updated the CEC will not be a body that only “mechanically takes the law.” “We will choose to analyze which rules work well, what rules do not work, to give their comments, suggestions, justifying them by experience, which is revealed in the electoral process, to ensure that this legislation is changed in the interests of the voters. I believe that CEC is a very important function, it has to be, otherwise there is little of it will depend on “, – said Pamfilova

The Central election commission -. the federal department responsible for the organization and conduct of federal elections and receiving complaints about the decisions of the lower election commissions. It is composed of 15 members with the right to vote. In five members appointed for five years, President of the Federation Council and the State Duma.

The Russian Central Election Commission renewed by almost two thirds in 2016: of the 15 members of the current to the new CEC were six: Boris Ebzeev, Siyabshah Shapiev Anton Lopatin, Maya Grishina, Valery Kryukov, Eugene Kolyushin. The new CEC members were Ella Pamfilova, Vasily Likhachev, Evgeny Shevchenko, Alexander Kanev, Sergey Sirotkin, Nikolai Levichev, Valery Gal’chenko Nicholas Bulaev Alexander Klyukin.