MOSCOW, October 25. /TASS/. The head of the faction “Fair Russia” Sergei Mironov and his Deputy Oleg Nilov introduced Tuesday in the state Duma a bill which proposes mandatory repeat voting at election of deputies of the lower house of Parliament in single member constituencies if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote. The text of the document posted in the Duma’s electronic database.
Changes are proposed to certain legislative acts of the Russian Federation. “The draft of the present Federal law establishes the obligation of the repeat voting for elections of deputies of the State Duma in single-member constituencies if no candidate receives more than 50% of the vote,” write the authors in the explanatory note.
Deputies remind us that the current system does not provide for a re-vote, which is new but already tested in the elections to the state Duma of the seventh convocation. “At the moment it is already possible to draw conclusions about the proportionality of the consequences of it (the system of elections in single-mandate constituencies) of the introduction, which clearly say only that the results of her actions were often far from justice and the real approval by the people of the several candidates elected under such a system”, they say.
the Developers also point out that, “summing up the practical result (of the use) of the electoral system of single-member districts, it is possible to make unambiguous conclusions about its defiance of the fundamental principles of democracy.”
According to them, the bill “eliminates the main and the biggest injustice of the new electoral system of our country, providing for the election of deputies of the state Duma in single-seat constituencies in the absence of the second round”.
Elections to the state Duma of the 7th convocation took place on 18 September on a mixed system: 225 deputies were elected by party lists and 225 in single – mandate constituencies.
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