There will be no direct elections of the head of the region in Crimea

The head of the Republic of Crimea will not be elected by direct vote. This was stated by the head of the Crimean Constitutional Commission Grigory Ioffe in an interview with Kommersant. According to the draft constitution, the head of the republic, elected by the parliament on the proposal of the President of Russia, will be led by the Peninsula.

The new Crimean Constitution is likely to be adopted by the Crimean parliament until April 10, Ioffe noted. At the same time, according to him, there is no talk of holding a referendum on this issue. “The discussion of the constitution by the people is, in my opinion, pseudo -democracy, this is such a scoop,” he said. “It is enough that the document is discussed in the expert community: 99 percent of citizens are not required to understand the legal language at all.”

The draft Constitution retains expanded powers, in particular in personnel issues, for the Parliament of Crimea. As Kommersant notes, this can be an obstacle to the approval of the new law by the Kremlin. "The parliamentary Republic as a form of state structure in Russian legislation is not provided," a source in the presidential administration told the publication.

Direct elections of the head of the region were canceled in the three Caucasus republics - Dagestan, Ingushetia and North Ossetia.

On Saturday, the head of the Majlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Refat Chubarov, said that Majlis would create Tatar autonomy in Crimea . As the leader of the Crimean Tatars explained, representatives of the Mejlis studied the Russian Constitution and regional laws of the constituent entities of the Federation and decided to demand the rights to self -determination. Within the framework of which country, the Crimean Tatars want to create autonomy and what borders should have, was not specified. Chubarov said that their demand would rely on international law. According to him, Majlis intends to negotiate with Russia, and Ukraine, and with organizations such as the UN, the Council of Europe and the OSCE.

Crimean Tatars opposed the accession of Crimea to Russia and boycotted a referendum on the status of the peninsula. The new Crimean authorities promised the Tatars to expand their rights, including grant them guaranteed places in local authorities.