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United Russia Checked for Chairman’s Conformity
Russia’s Communist Party has directed an inquiry to the Federal Registration Service, requesting a copy of the amendments to the United Russia’s Charter that the Congress endorsed on April 14. The communists suspect that amendments contradict the Act on Political Parties and Vladimir Putin took over United Russia bypassing the laws.
United Russia amended Section 7 of the Charter, changing its heading from “Party Chairman” to “Chairman of the Party and Chairman of the Party’s Supreme Council.” Under the amendments, United Russia may introduce a supreme elective post in the party, the post of the party’s chairman, at suggestion of Supreme Council and its chairman. As a result, the Congress elected President Vladimir Putin to chair United Russia and State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov was elected to chair its Supreme Council.
According to the amendments, United Russia’s Congress elects a chairman by open two-third majority vote for the term of four years. But pursuant to the Act on Political Parties, the party’s supreme bodies shall be elected by secret ballot and this discrepancy has been noted by the communists.
What’s more, Vladimir Putin was elected to lead the party without being its member, while the law says that the party members are entitled to being elected.
Another item of the inquiry of communists demands to clarify procedure of checking amendments to the Charter that is to held by the Federal Registration Service (FRS). The laws give a month for the inspection, while the FRS needed just a few hours to record the amendments on April 14.
“After the FRS responds to the inquiry, we will see in the party if the law has been violated from our point of view,” said Vadim Soloviev, who heads legal service of the Communist Party and is the State Duma member.
The rightists also look forward to the FRS reply. The emergency registration of United Russia’s amendments is “an open use of administrative resource,” said SPS lawyer Vadim Prokhorov.
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All the Article in Russian as of Apr. 18, 2008
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