Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg
Members of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Nadezhda Tikhonova (“Fair Russia”) and Mikhail Amosov (Yabloko) has submitted to city court the claim about cancellation of the law, equating the meeting of parliamentarians with voters to rally. About it reports the Internet-the edition “Fontanka” with reference to Amos on Monday, March 6.
In his opinion, a law that allows you to meet with voters without the consent of the designated places, “contrary to the meaning of parliamentary activities and of the Constitution.”
“It often happens that the meeting with the Deputy organizes the people themselves, for example, some ditches that were dug to lay a pipe, and forgot, or, for example, in the square who want to cut down. They will come to me with this proposal, and I tell them that only on the field of Mars?” perplexed choice.
According to him, the lawsuit also underscores that the right to set the rules of holding public events only has the Federal Parliament.
February 22 St. Petersburg legislative Assembly adopted the law on equating the meetings of deputies with voters, the rallies, taking into account the amendments proposed by the city Governor Georgy Poltavchenko. On the first version of the document, envisaging a complete ban on holding of meetings with citizens, without the permission of the Smolny, he vetoed.
The final version of the law stipulates that parliamentarians can get together with the residents without the consent of the authorities of St. Petersburg only in case if the meeting takes place in special reserved for meetings places and it involves no more than 100 people.
The head of the faction “United Russia” in city legislative Assembly Alexander Teterenko developed the document after the protests against the Saint Isaac’s Cathedral Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) in the campus Martius, which was attended by about two thousand people. The city administration denied the organizers in the coordination of the meeting, so they held the event in the form of a meeting with parliamentarians.