In the State Duma decided to send a request to the Constitutional Court on early elections – RBC

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A draft law on the transfer of a single day of voting in the second to the third Sunday of September, the State Duma will consider the fall follows from the words of the chairman of the Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building Vladimir Pligina.

The Constitutional Committee also decided to send a bill to Change the date of a single day of voting in the regions for a review of 30 days, which expires after the scheduled last meeting of the Duma during the spring session, the correspondent of RBC.

In addition, the Committee adopted a decision on the second question, which requires law changes on the election of deputies to the State Duma. The deputies approved the draft appeal to the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation on the initiative transfer the 2006 parliamentary elections on December 4, the third Sunday of September. The court must decide whether the transfer of the Constitution.

The amendments to the law on elections of the State Duma, which may be approved by the transfer, if they will make on Monday, the State Duma may consider in the first reading this week, follows from the explanations Pligina . Amendments should only be made after a review of the government will be. If the project will be submitted on Monday, the committee will take a period for providing comments before ten in the morning on Tuesday, he said.

Explaining RBC such haste Piligin said that “on this significant issue we have to reach a certain stage of the first read ».

The bill on holding early elections in the State Duma was introduced last Friday, the leaders of the faction” United Russia “, LDPR and” Fair Russia ».

Communist Party opposes the postponement of elections. On Monday, it became known that the Communists with the consent of, the Duma sent a request to the Constitutional Court. The faction will not protest against the direction of the Duma query, but will not support it, said a member of the constitutional committee of the House, Communist MP Vadim Solovyov. Communist Party does not need an explanation – the decision to reduce the 60-month period of the Duma to 57 months unconstitutional, said Solovyov. The Communists do not support, and the relevant bills, and in the event of dispute them to the Constitutional Court, said at a meeting Solovyov Constitutional Committee on Monday.

The project request to the Constitutional Court of the State Duma elections, the need to transfer from December to September motivated by increasing the electoral activity, and political competition, said Solovyov and deputy Dmitry Gudkov, Eser. These arguments are untenable in September voter turnout did not exceed 20-25%, the elections to the State Duma will raise it to 30%; In December, voter turnout exceeded 60%, said Solovyov. What based expectations of political competition, the deputies also unclear. And Solovyov and Gudkov abstained from voting on the draft request to the Constitutional Court. Both said they would support a dry text, “not far-fetched arguments.”