Igor Buga, "Reducing the turnout threshold - defense mechanism for statehood"

The Supreme Council deputy Igor Buga and Andrei Safonov initiated the adoption of the law-in-draft "On Amendments to the Electoral Code". They proposed to establish that for the elections of the President of PMR valid required turnout of more than 25% of the voters included in the electoral lists at the time of voting.

The motives for the amendment of the existing rules of the Electoral Code became established in the republic the negative situation with labor migration, the lack of Russian legislation, even the very concept of "turnout" in the vote for the President and deputies at various levels, as well as its data in the course of autumn 2015 the year, elections to representative bodies of PMR authorities. Then the average turnout in the republic amounted to about 47%.

Due to low turnout of the December presidential election deputy of the Supreme Council Gregory Dyachenko told about negative political consequences of possible failure.

The head of the profile parliamentary committee on legislation Galina Antyufeeva informed colleagues that the law-in-draft aimed at changing the rules of the Electoral Code, the legislative rights of the subjects received 7 reports, all of them are positive. As a result, 38 deputies voted for the law-in-draft "On Amendments to the Electoral Code" and only two voted against.