Menyailo changed his mind - he no longer wants direct elections
In Sevastopol, they are delaying the introduction of amendments to the city's legislative assembly to introduce direct elections of the governor. Sergei Menyailo, who previously spoke in favor of direct elections, suddenly started talking about how expensive it is.
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The chairman of the legislative committee of the Sevastopol parliament, Viktor Posmetny, who led the commission to develop proposals to change the city charter, told Kommersant that the bill has not yet been submitted to the legislative assembly and the collection of the eight parliamentary signatures required for this has not yet begun. “There are still four and a half years before the gubernatorial elections, we have nowhere to rush,” explained the deputy. “Now we are working on more important bills.”
As planned, the heads of Sevastopol and Crimea and the parliaments of the two new entities should be elected in 2019. On April 15, Alexey Chaly said that changes to the charter of Sevastopol for direct elections of the governor will be made in May. At the same time, Chaly stated that he and Sergei Menyailo should leave their posts if the situation in the city cannot be radically corrected before the summer.
Menyailo considers Mr. Chaly’s statements emotional. “I also want to get up in the morning, wave my wand, and roads, houses and everything else will appear,” he said “To Kommersant”. Regarding the elections, he said, “there are different opinions”: “If Sevastopol residents want to choose by popular vote, let them choose what problems they have. You just need to understand one thing. In our emotions, sometimes we don’t consider the economy. How much do elections cost? And do you think they will make it to the same round?”
The chairman of the budget commission, the head of the United Russia faction in the legislative assembly of Sevastopol, Vyacheslav Aksenov, confirms that electing a leader by the people and not by deputies is more expensive, but “this cannot be a serious argument against direct elections.”
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