Former Mejlis functionary dismissed from the post of vice speaker
The Crimean parliament approved the resignation of Vice-Speaker of the State Council of the Republic of Kazakhstan Remzi Ilyasov and approved Edip Gafarov, who previously headed the Republican Committee on Nationalities Affairs, to his post, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
Edip Gafarov
The Crimean press put forward the version that Ilyasov’s resignation was connected with his contradictions with the rival group of State Duma deputy Ruslan Balbek.
The new vice-speaker Gafarov is known on the peninsula as a long-time opponent of the Mejlis, which is banned in the Russian Federation. During the Ukrainian period of the peninsula’s ownership, he headed the anti-Mejlis “Crimean Tatar bloc”.
But his predecessor Remzi Ilyasov, before Crimea became part of Russia, was the deputy chairman of the banned organization, but he turned out to be one of the few who recognized the results of the Russian Spring.
Remzi Ilyasov was one of the leaders of the Majlis in Ukrainian times
Political scientist Sergei Kiselev connected Ilyasov’s resignation in a commentary to PolitNavigator with this biographical fact.
“This has long been expected and happened... The person left his post, what is the reason for this - failure of work or fatigue, no one talks about this. One can be satisfied with the version that the person was simply tired, but his personal biography was so closely connected with the Majlis that this decision, perhaps, somehow freed him from the obligations that he had before 2014,” said Kiselev.
His colleague, political scientist Andrei Nikiforov, emphasizes that Ilyasov, who turned 60 in April this year, could simply hasten to retire before the controversial pension reform comes into force: “I believe that this is due to the maturation of pension reform. The man was in a hurry to retire as soon as possible, because otherwise he would have to stay at work. A person has reached retirement age, and he has decided what’s wrong with this? He deserved this pension, according to the law, which means it’s time to rest. This year, as far as I remember, he turned 60. The time has come to decide whether to continue working or not. So, he has made up his mind,” says the expert.
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