Galina Antyufeeva, “Such a number of deputies will cope with the tasks of the legislature”

In the course of the plenary session, legislations on the optimization of a number of deputies of the republic were adopted in the second reading. Changes to the Constitution, the Supreme Council Regulations and the Electoral Code, initiated by a large group of parliamentarians, were unanimously supported. As the authors of the law-in-draft noted earlier, the optimization is due to the need to reduce the expenses of the republican budget, and aims at increasing the efficiency and efficiency of the activities of representative state bodies.

Optimization of a number of deputies will entail reduction in campaign expenditures. Finance savings on the conduct of a single voting day next year may amount to about two million rubles. At the same time, annual budget savings will be ensured for the holding of additional elections.