Maskhadov announced impeachment

Aslan Maskhadov, deputies of the former parliament of Ichkeria announced impeachment, reports Echo of Moscow. This was announced in Moscow at the press conference of Isa Temirov, who previously acted as chairman of the Ichkeria parliament. He read out the “Decree of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria of September 5, 2003”, which states that Maskhadov “in violation of the constitution illegally assigned power and, by his decree, introduced the Sharia rule into the ChRI, which changed the foundations of the constitutional system, which in itself is the most grace crime.”

The deputies came to the conclusion that to stabilize the situation in the republic there is only one tool - to remove Maskhadov from office.

"The decree of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria is based on the Constitution of the Chry," Temirov said.

According to him, before initiating the issue of the impeachment of Maskhadov, parliamentarians "visited the regions, talked with the Chechen diasporas, the population of the Chechen Republic."

After the impeachment declared Maskhadov, Vakha Arsanov became the President of Chechnya. Previously, he held the post of vice president.

Upon learning of the event, the assistant to President Putin Yastrzhebsky noted with satisfaction that now, "after the decision of the so -called Ichkeria parliament, Zakayev cannot call himself the emissary of the President of Ichkeria." And, although "this can hardly affect the minds of English judges, those who are considering the case of Zakayev in England, but from that moment Mr. Zakayev cannot call himself the emissar of the President of Ichkeria, and can only call himself the emissar of the field commander Maskhadov." "In this regard, the solution of the so -called Ichkeria parliament also carries a significant positive charge," the assistant said.

Meanwhile, Prima conveys with reference to the Chechen Foreign Ministry that Isa Temirov lost his deputy mandate back in May 2003. The reason for this was the cooperation of Temirov with the Russian special services. The Chry Foreign Ministry indicates that the Chechnya Constitution provides for a decision on the beginning of the President’s impeachment procedure only by a “majority of two -thirds of the full list of Chechen parliamentarians”. "Very few former deputies of the Chechnya parliament who committed the act of betrayal in the hope of avoiding torture and death at the hands of Russian special services have no authority to begin such a procedure," the Republic’s Foreign Ministry said. The Foreign Minister of the Chry Ilyas Akhmadov called the message about the impeachment "an intentional distortion of the actual state of things aimed to mislead the international community and to reinforce Russian plans to hold the presidential election in Chechnya in Chechnya."

In addition, the statement of the department says that after the start of the operation of Russian troops in Chechnya, the Law on Martial Procedure entered into force, which prohibits the resignation of the president during the war.