The CEC approved two alternatives for the wording of the question for the pension referendum
Moscow. August 10. INTERFAX.RU — Russia’s Central election Commission approved the wording of two questions about raising the retirement age for making them in the all-Russian referendum, the correspondent of “Interfax”.
According to the accepted on Friday the CEC decisions, questions from the regional subgroups of initiative groups in Nizhny Novgorod and Vologda regions “correspond to the requirements of article 6 of the Federal constitutional law “On referendum of the Russian Federation”.
Thus, in Russia for five action teams who will register in more than half of subjects of the Russian Federation to organize a referendum on raising the retirement age. However, according to legislation in one region can be registered in only one of them, as the questions are all similar.
The options of question
Proposed in the Nizhniy Novgorod region the question is: “are You for a ban on the increase in established by the legislation of the Russian Federation on pension provision as at 1 July 2018, the age at which there is a right to pension for old age?”.
In turn, the issue of Vologda region is as follows: “for You to established by the legislation of the Russian Federation on pension provision as at 1 July 2018, by which citizens of the Russian Federation have the right to the appointment of old-age pension is not increased?”.
Meanwhile, earlier it was reported that mathematically difficult to organize a referendum in the case that there are three groups, as each of them must register in at least half of the regions in each of which it is possible to register only one subgroup with the same question.
The application for its registration was submitted to the regional election commissions on 7 and 8 August, respectively.
On 8 August, the CEC acknowledged the questions of the three other action teams, for submission to the national referendum on raising the retirement age, the relevant legislation.