Valery Zorkin for the fifth time is reassigned to the head of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation

The Federation Council on Wednesday was reassigned to the chairman of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation Valery Zorkin. His candidacy was supported by 141 senator, ITAR-TASS reports. No one spoke out against, one member of the Council abstained. Thus, the 69-year-old Zorkin was reassigned to this post for the fifth time. On February 10, Zorkin's candidacy was submitted to the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev.

The head of the Committee of the Chamber of Constitutional Legislation, legal and judicial issues Nikolai Fedorov noted that Zorkin, being a professional lawyer, always publicly defended the positions of the KS, which gained high authority. At the same time, Zorkin "never clinged to the posts," he emphasized.

Zorkin himself, speaking to the senators, noted that the Constitutional Court plays the role of an "arbiter between the authorities and between citizens and power."

Even before the vote, a member of the profile committee of the Council of Constitutional Legislation, legal and judicial issues Anatoly Lyskov said that Zorkin would be rejused at his post, there is no doubt. "Zorkin is a very authoritative jurist, he very qualified and at a high level set up interaction with the Federation Council," said Senator RIA Novosti .

At the same time, during the meeting, who took place after the president’s presentation, Zorkin had to make excuses for the decision of the Constitutional Court, which supported the liquidation of the election of governors, Prav.ru noted.

In particular, responding to the replica of Senator Yegor Stroyev, who recalled that several years ago Zorkin “spoke negatively about the election of governors,” the head of the KS said that Straev made him feel “already in a frying pan”, recalling the corresponding resolution of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. “We were very scolded for him, they say, we actually authorized the Kremlin’s policy,” Zorkin admitted.

He emphasized that the Constitutional Court never said that the elimination of the election directly follows from the Constitution of the Russian Federation, but it does not contradict it and was caused by "certain circumstances", since then "election was used for destructive purposes." At the same time, they were aware of the Constitutional Court and "emphasized that in this situation there would be less democracy."

He spoke out against the strengthening of democracy on the eve of reassignment. In particular, he criticized the proposals of revising the Constitution in order to strengthen the powers of the parliament, calling such measures "untimely." “The current situation does not imply at a cool move to change the structure so that there is more democracy,” Zorkin said at a meeting of the Constitutional Constitutional Legislation Committee, legal and judicial issues, answering senators' questions about the reform of the political system in the Russian Federation.

Valery Zorkin was first headed by the Constitutional Court of Russia under President Boris Yeltsin. On October 29, 1991, he was elected by the judge of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation, and already in November he headed the Constitutional Court and stayed in this position of incomplete two years.

During the conflict between President Boris Yeltsin and the Supreme Council in the fall of 1993, he tried to carry out an intermediary mission and called on the parties to "return to the legal field." However, after the conflict grew into an armed, on October 6, 1993 he resigned from this post, remaining a judge in the Constitutional Court.

Zorkin returned to this position ten years later, already under Putin. On February 21, 2003, by decree of President Vladimir Putin Zorkin again headed the country's highest court. On February 20, 2009, he was re -elected chairman of the KS for a period of three years. Zorkin's powers as chairman of the Constitutional Court expired on February 20 of this year.

Earlier, the chairman of the Constitutional Court was elected by secret vote by the judge of the Constitutional Court, the term of stay in position was limited to three years. According to the new legislation introduced under the President Medvedev in 2009-2010, the president submits the candidacy of the chairman of the KS for consideration by the Federation Council, and the chairman of the KS for six years is elected. Zorkin is first elected according to the new procedure.