Friday, June 17, 2016

“Kommersant”: The CEC asked the president an additional 500 million rubles for the elections to the State Duma – NEWSru.com

The Central Election Commission appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to allocate additional funds for the holding of elections to the State Duma September 18, 2016, the newspaper “Kommersant” , citing a source in the CEC. According to the companion publication, the CEC requests additional to those already provided 10.4 billion rubles from the budget transfer in the event about 500 million rubles.

According to the source, the president “took the case” and gave corresponding instructions to the Government. According to him, now the decree on the allocation of these funds is on the signature of the Prime Minister and, according to preliminary data, the government is to meet the CEC.

 Past CEC headed by Vladimir Churov debated with the Ministry of Finance about the finances needed for the elections, at least since 2015, the newspaper reminds. Then the Commission requested to allocate 14.7 billion rubles elections. A similar amount – 14.3 billion rubles – was called in the financial and economic feasibility of the project of the new law on the State Duma elections in 2013. However, in last year’s Duma elections, it was decided to allocate only 10.4 billion rubles.

 After changing the composition of the Commission in March 2016 has not been lifted problem, the sources said the CEC. So, the last part of the Central Election Commission pointed to the need to adequately compensate for the labor of election commissions members. This problem was raised and the head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova.

 According to a source in the CEC, however the requirements of the budget for the elections have changed – we were able to optimize the costs of the federal campaign. Now additionally required no more than 500 million rubles in the labor commissions paid employees.

 According to “Kommersant” expert movement “Voice” Andrei Buzin, it is for the CEC “actually fight for their subordinates, because they are not very interested in working.” He noted that members of the commission during the election observers complain that the work “is almost for nothing.” At present, for the Duma elections commission members receive 1.5-2 thousand rubles, if the elections are not aligned with the other levels of elections, said Buzin. It was reported that the previous Duma elections in 2011 has been allocated seven billion rubles.

Elections to the State Duma will be held September 18, 2016. According to a recent poll , conducted by “Levada Center”, in the vote going to take less than half of people in Russia – 44%.

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