MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator...
the test of time.” However, there are certain drawbacks that become a special headache during elections. The president proposed “continuing joint work to improve the quality of representative power and to create additional conditions for a free, fair and civilized competition between parties.”Regional and municipal elections have recently been criticized especially often, Medvedev said. Therefore, the president said he decided after consultations with representatives of public organizations and political parties that the reform of election legislation should shift to the regional level.
First of all, we must “introduce a single rule for determining the number of deputies in a legislature.” It is wrong that Moscow, a city with a multimillion population, has only 35 deputies in its legislature, while the legislature of Tyva, a republic in Siberia with a population 30 times smaller than in Moscow, has 162 deputies. A golden mean must
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