| YABLOKO leader Sergei Mitrokhin believes that the full
restoration of the right to form electoral blocs will prevent
deepening of the political crisis, which is boosted by mass-scale
creation of new parties. He made such a statement at the meeting
of the Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation.
On March 26 the Committee examined amendments to the new law
on political parties.
Sergei Mitrokhin noted that simplification of the procedure
for registration of political parties had been caused by the
desire of the government to maintain their monopoly. "They
realised that their monopoly could not be maintained with
the help of reprisals and administrative restrictions. So
they decided to do the opposite - let the new political emerge
and multiply freely , Mitrokhin said. According to YABLOKO
leader, "now each party will get its own political rival,
except for the ruling party, which will not allow to create
one more party of the same type."
YABLOKO leader expressed his confidence that a huge number
of new political parties in the situation of ban on electoral
blocs would disperse the electorate, biting off a significant
percentage from the parliamentary parties. Consequently, a
large part of the society would not be represented in the
parliament being below the five per cent threashold. This
would lead to further alienation of the government and the
society, and can also lead to a major political crisis.
Mitrokhin also noted that creation of parties by neighboring
regions or regions united by a common confession would lead
to the disintegration of the country.
He said that the deficiencies of the law should be corrected
by introducing amendments into other laws, first of all, by
abolishing a ban on electoral blocs.
Valery Rashkin, deputy of the State Duma deputy from the
Communist Party faction, urged the senators to veto the draft
law. However, he could not answer the question why he and
his faction had voted for the President's initiative in all
the three readings.
Nevertheless, after discussing the possible risks of adoption
of the draft law, five out of nine Committee members voted
for its approval. However, this decision could not be considered
adopted by the Committee, as such decision can be adopted
only by a majority vote, and three senators were absent from
the meeting.
See also:
Law
on political parties
Sergei
Mitrokhin in the State Duma: a new law on political parties
can not be considered as "a victory of common sense"
until formation of electoral blocs is permitted
Press Release, Video, March 23, 2012.
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