This file photo of January 1, 2004 shows the president's inauguration Vladimir Putin, left. The ceremony is attended by Russia's First President Boris Yeltsyn.
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Zhirinovsky Suggested Making Supreme Ruler Out Of President
When elaborating the bill for president’s authority extension for the second reading, the State Duma’s profile committee rejected a number of amendments spiralheaded by Vice Speaker Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
Amid other things, Zhirinovsky suggested renaming the position of Russia’s president. It would be more correctly to call him the Supreme Ruler, Zhirinovsky said.
Another proposal was to change the parliament’s strength in part of reducing the number from 450 to 300 lawmakers, abolish the upper house, change federal establishment of Russia and replace “the multinational people” word combination in the RF Constitution by “the Russian nation and other nations” words.
But none of Zhirinovsky’s amendments have been OKed for consideration, as they were regarded contradicting to Clause 134 of the RF Constitution that governs procedures of changing the basic law of the country.
The State Duma’s committee also turned down proposals of LDPR members Igor Lebedev and Sergei Ivanov that advocated extending the president’s term to seven years, and the proposal of Viktor Ilyukhin from communist faction that urged to limit the president’s staying in office to one term.
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