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Russia’s Human Rights Council says election commission boss should go
Published: 24 December, 2011, 19:53
RIA Novosti / Aleksey Philippov
TAGS: Election, Scandal, Russia, Protest, Politics, Law
Central Elections Commission Chairman Vladimir Churov should resign as he has lost the trust of the people, says the Presidential Human Rights Council. Its appeal has no legal force as even the president has no right to dismiss the head of CEС.
“In light of the ongoing [presidential] election campaign, this position should be immediately occupied by a person with an impeccable reputation and enjoying authority in civil society," the council’s chairman, Mikhail Fedotov, stated.
The Council also called for "creating a negotiating mechanism to conclude a fair social contract between the people and the authorities in transitioning to a new political reality."
Churov’s resignation is one of the popular demands of the protesters rallying throughout Russia since December 4 parliamentary elections, which they say were fraudulent.
However, under Russian law, only the members of the CEС can appoint or dismiss their head. The 15 members of the CEС are appointed by the president and the upper and lower houses of parliament and can be displaced only by order of a court or due to a change of citizenship.
“There are no legal or judicial implications in the [Human Rights Council] decision,” said Central Election Commission member Elena Dubrovina.
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Marzipan6 (unregistered)
Well thanks for your Hyperbolic criticisms but No thanks,you're Simply not Qualified to Pass Judgement on Us Particularly when it comes from the Prejudiced Prism of a Western Perspective, different Standards apply here so don't Judge us according to your own Criteria which is Failing you Anyway.
Russians are coming of Age and they don't need you to tell them what's Best for them, I'd think that to rather Arrogant don't you? we know what's best for Us thank you very Much, you would do very well to Put your Semantic Skills against your own Corrupt Regimes in the West.
BitterTruth, thanks for your concern, but I'm not in the least bit uncomfortable over your posts. The West has plenty of problem. I know, because I live there, and must deal with those that directly affect me. But this particular forum is on the subject of Russia's problems, not the West's. I am bemused that so many contributors seem to instinctively believe that changing the subject to problems of countries that are not Russia actually says something about Russia's problems. I have never heard of anyone (let alone almost everyone) in the West seriously attempt to discuss Western problems by immediately deflecting the discussion to what's happening in Russia. Have you?
Bianca, welcome, my friend, I have missed you. I hate to say this, but your posts are still factually challenged. RT has not been unlucky enough to have been deprived of my posts at all. Do a search, and see what you've been missing!
And may I also ask you, just as I previously asked BitterTruth and Gunshipdiplomacy, why are you incapable of discussing Russian circumstances without
immediately changing the topic to the West? Russia's democracy or lack
of it remains exactly what it is, regardless of what may or may not
exist in the West. Those who love Russia will not remedy its problems
by one scintilla by instead addressing someone else's presumed problems. Or even someone else's real problems.
BitterTruth, I would not write a single word about Russia here or anywhere else if Russia did not offensively lie about, threaten, hypocritically preach to and constantly criticise its neighbours and others, including my people. Given such Russian behaviour, it is entirely appropriate if Russia's neighbours also analyze and comment on events there.
In fact is is more than just appropriate -- it is necessary and inevitable. One never knows where such a Russia will lurch next or what the fallout of that will be on surrounding nations, and one needs to be prepared. Given Russia's historically mega-destructive effects on other countries, the progress of democracy there (or lack of it) is of very legitimate interest to them.