The Fractional Discussion

Members of “The Obnovlenie” parliamentary faction discussed the issues included in the agenda of today's plenary session. There are more than fifty points, including five vetos on laws adopted by the Supreme Council, the initiative, suggesting amendments to the Constitution, the so-called Regime folder.

There is a proposal to consider the report the Accounts Chamber in closed session at the request of the Supreme Council regarding checking the efficiency of the unitary enterprises, use by state unitary enterprises and municipal unitary enterprises retained earnings, the legality of the financing of public authorities. Members of “The Obnovlenie” parliamentary faction suppose that such information is not confidential and should be presented to the public.

The amendments to the Constitution proposed by the largest parliamentary group seem appropriate to deputies. It is about providing of the right to appeal to the Constitutional Court to the councils of People's Deputies of towns and regions.

Parliamentarians highlighted the initiative of Valery Chervonooky to lift the ban on the sale of tobacco products in the territory of less than 100 meters from educational institutions among the vetoed and returned by the President for reconsideration of legislations. The author of the document and supporting him colleagues parliamentarians recalled the recent toughening of penalties for the sale of cigarettes to minors, as well as common practice in the Russian legal proceedings related to the ambiguity of understanding the rules limiting the distance to the subject, sells products made from tobacco. The developer of the law-in-draft and members of the relevant committee are in favor of overcoming the veto.

Another issue according to which the opinion of the deputy and the president is differ, - is amendment to the Land Code. The President placed for consideration the initiative to transfer some of its powers of government in the regulation of land relations. Without disputing the proposal in principle, parliamentarians insist that the grounds and procedures for land acquisition should be as it is today, regulated at the legislative level, not by the subordinate acts. The one and the other is clearly spelled out in the Land and Civil Procedure Code.

Final decisions regarding all these issues would be taken by deputies in the plenary session.