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“Here we have the situation to change,” — said the head of the Central election Commission, Ella Pamfilova. In her opinion, “the adjustment may be cosmetic, it might be the best radical”. The discussion was presented the entire range of possible changes, from the mildest to the most severe. “We believe that parties that no collection of signatures to nominate the President of the Russian Federation, totally impractical to collect them at the regional level”, — said the Deputy of the state Duma from the Communist party Yuri Afonin. Now the right to nominate the candidate for the post of the head of state have the parties represented in the Duma and/or not less than one third of regional legislative assemblies. For non-parliamentary parties, the Communists propose to establish a municipal filter at the level of 3-5 percent, that he was not wearing protective nature. Currently, the “filter size” ranges from 5 to 10 percent of the total number of municipal deputies.
Vladimir burmatov, head of the Central Executive Committee of “United Russia”, said that not a filter, and “qualifications”, a useful provision that encourages parties to participate in municipal elections and also eliminates spoilers and representatives of criminals. He made adjustment to these requirements on vesting of municipal deputies the right to subscribe for two gubernatorial candidates (now dual signatures are the basis for refusal of registration). To cancel this filter for the parliamentary parties Burmatov considers it wrong, because all political forces should participate in municipal elections, and the problems with the filter they will not have.
90 percent of municipal deputies are “United Russia”
“We are categorically against tumors, which is called the filter, the qualification requirements,” — said the Deputy of the state Duma from “Fair Russia” Oleg Nilov. He stressed that now 90 percent of municipal deputies are “United Russia”, and all other parties have to go cap in hand to their competitors. It would be like “to participate in the Cup