The President as sacred authority

The Institute for National Strategy of S. Belkovsky continues the advertising campaign of its constitutional reform project. About this article by Pavel Svyatenkov "Two-storied Constitution" , posted on the website of APN.Ru.

The model proposed by S. Belkovsky presupposes something like a bourgeois democracy, limited by a sacred sovereign, modeled on the Iranian political system.

Democracy in Russia is weak, and a weak democracy cannot regulate itself and inevitably slides into corrupt authoritarianism, which is fraught with revolution. And a revolution in Russia, albeit a “velvet” one, can lead to the fact that “the country will forever be stuck in the“ third world ”” .

Therefore, there is a need for an arbiter standing above the democratic system, who would have sufficient tools to "intervene in the situation in the event of a failure of democracy" . "Hence - the actualization of the idea of ​​an uncrowned monarch or even the direct restoration of the institution of imperial power in Russia . " The guarantor of democratic institutions, the sacred center, the author believes, can be not only religious figures, but also law enforcement agencies, for example, as in China.

"From the point of view of achieving agreement between the Russian elites, this model is optimal at this stage ," P. Svyatenkov believes.

Sources

• Svyatenkov P. Two-storied Constitution // Political News Agency. 2005. B.d.