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Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Vladimir Lukin (Yabloko
faction) thinks that the country currently lacks the requisite
conditions for the election of Duma deputies by means of
the majority system only, i.e. only in single-mandate electoral
districts.
In an interview with journalists that took place on May
12, 2000, he expressed his opinion that the holding of elections
according to the mixed system (250 deputies elected in single-mandate
electoral districts and 250 deputies on party lists) is
the optimal solution for Russia at the present stage.
Commenting on Vladimir Putin’s preference for the majority
voting system Vladimir Lukin noted that “every country undergoing
a transitional period … chooses such a system that could
promote the creation of political parties and civil society
rather than a system based on an absolute majority.”
According to Lukin, such a system functions in Germany,
Italy, Poland and Turkey. Lukin also noted that in his opinion
the institutions of a civil society in Russia are only at
a fledgling stage. Speaking about the Federation Council,
he said that “there is a problem”. The upper chamber must
represent the regions with elected deputies, “two deputies
from each region, as in the United States”, noted Lukin.
Based on Interfax reports
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