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The Saratov Regional Duma decided to correct the president. Regional deputies demanded changes to the bill on the appointment of governors. According to the amendments, the candidate proposed by the President can be considered not ...

The Saratov Regional Duma decided to correct the president. Regional deputies demanded changes to the bill on the appointment of governors. According to the amendments, the candidate proposed by the president can be considered not two, but three times, but even if the decision is negative, the head of state will lose the right to dissolve the Legislative Assembly.

At the first consideration in early October, the Saratov parliamentarians approved the bill unanimously. But, according to their current explanation, they made a decision “without thinking” - that is, “conceptually”. For a month and a half, the regional Duma gathered its thoughts and sent amendments to the State for the second reading. The initiator was the deputy group "United Russia".

A long-standing dislike for Dmitry Ayatskov forced the local party members to deviate from the central course. According to the province, it is his candidacy that the president is most likely to propose. United Russia, supporting Vyacheslav Volodin, will have to vote against. And no one wants to lose the mandate ahead of schedule.

The road to achievement was difficult. The final text of the amendments was approved late in the evening on the eve of the parliamentary session. The most daring was the representative of the Communist Party Olga Alimova.

- One president cannot be more brilliant than all the deputies! - said Mrs. Alimova.

Are you talking about our president? the speaker of the Duma was amazed. - You are fundamentally wrong.

After reading their demands from the rostrum, the parliamentarians were afraid of their own courage. From the audience they began to ask not to send any amendments to Moscow at all. Voting failed. But the instinct of official self-preservation won, and on the second attempt, the deputies adopted a “softened” document.