To return the Situation to the Constitutional Environment

A vicious practice in recent years has become unsigned by the president of adopted by the Supreme Council laws. Notwithstanding enshrined in the Constitution of the responsibility of the President to take the final decision on adopted by the deputies laws since 2012 in uncertain status was listed nearly a hundred of legislation: the president during allotted 14-day period did not put them under his signature, and did not vetoed. Representatives of the Supreme Council were quite a long conversation with the guarantor of the Constitution, - the head of the republic to return the situation to the constitutional environment, but there was no result. The next step was repeated appeals to the Constitutional Court. There were four inquiries. According to the results of consideration of each of them decisions confirming the powers of the President to fulfill his constitutional duty was made. However, two of them are still not fulfilled by the President in full. By the way, the Court was also uncomplying in 1998 in a similar situation in the Russian Federation, it ordered the president to sign and promulgate adopted by the State Duma the law within the prescribed period.

Another important detail that the Chairman of the Supreme Council Vadim Krasnoselsky and his deputy Galina Antyufeeva drew attention during today's meeting: non-fulfillment of decisions of the Constitutional Court, under the Criminal Code, may be regarded as containing the elements of a crime of grave crime.

To date, 11 laws are unsigned, the obligation to sign the two of them has been confirmed by the Constitutional Court as early as 2013 and 2015. Among the unsigned – constitutional law that was called once and for all settle the matter. It is referred to giving the right to the Supreme Council Chairman to sign the law, if within 14 days the president does not fulfill its constitutional duty of signing or not to use its veto, that is, leave the law in precarity. Appropriate amendments to the Constitution were supported by the deputies July 20 this year.

Today, Vadim Krasnoselsky following the discussion decided to exercise the right, granted to him by Article 106 of the Constitution on the signing of the Constitutional Law, which is not signed by the President. Earlier, this right was given to the Speaker in 1995 through the adoption of appropriate provisions of the Constitution in a national referendum. The speaker used this right for the first time, once again emphasized that the law does not suggest any limitations of the President powers that it only guarantees the continuity of the legislative process.

• List of laws

• A list of decisions of the CC on unsigned laws

Decision of the Constitutional Court PMR dated November 19, 2013 № 08 - A / 13

Decision of the Constitutional Court PMR dated December 22, 2015 number 03 -A / 15

Decision of the Constitutional Court PMR dated December 8, 2015 № 02 - A / 15

Decision of the Constitutional Court PMR dated April 5, 2016 № 01 - A / 16

Decision of the Constitutional Court of the PMR dated May 19, 2016 № 02 - A / 16