Residents of Sevastopol are again not given the right to elect a mayor, but deputies will have immunity

Sevastopol, April 10 (Navigator, Egor Kagorov) – Sevastopol deputies are preparing to vote for the City Charter, the draft of which was submitted for consideration by the acting. Governor Alexey Chaly. Not everyone is happy with the document - for example, it turned out that, as in Ukraine, the popular election of the leader of Sevastopol is not provided for. Found this out "Navigator", asking deputies, social activists and lawyers to evaluate the future Charter.

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Gennady Basov, “Russian Bloc”:

“The charter is the Constitution of the city. I want to say right away that when it is said that everyone took part in its development, all deputies could make their proposals, this is a deliberate lie.

I have certain questions about the document. It will be necessary to make some amendments that relate to the issue of local government. Now our party's lawyers are working on the text of these adjustments. If they are not included, our city will resemble a community that will have very few rights and opportunities. First of all, we will insist that the governor be elected by the people. No “games in the dark”!”

Alexander Puras, lawyer:

“Among the positive changes, it is worth noting the reduction in the number of people’s representatives to 24 people, however, an even number of “legislators” could theoretically lead to an ineffective vote (12 “for”, 12 “against”).

The Charter provides that deputies will enjoy immunity. Until now, deputies of the Sevastopol City Council have felt great without immunity. Probably, starting with parliamentary immunity, people's deputies can continue lawmaking in the form of allowing special signals for their cars, etc. This is a vicious practice and leads to greater distancing of deputies from the people!

There is no definition of the term “official publication”, whether it is through the print media, then which one, if through publication on the website of the Legislative Assembly or the governor, then it is assumed that not all residents of Sevastopol will be able to familiarize themselves with it, since not everyone uses the Internet yet .

According to this project, the governor is given enormous powers, some of them, such as approving the candidacy of the prosecutor of the city of Sevastopol, should be attributed to purely positive trends, but the possibility of one person combining both the positions of governor and chairman of the government can lead to the usurpation of power in the city, especially that the governor has the power to dissolve the Legislative Assembly. It is worth noting that the Legislative Assembly has the right to express no confidence in the governor and send its decision to the President of the Russian Federation for consideration. That is, in this case, the system of checks and balances between the branches of government is somewhat biased in favor of the governor.

There is no procedure for appealing legal acts of the Legislative Assembly, the governor and the government, initiated by an individual (legal) person, if such a document significantly violates his rights.

In my opinion, the adoption of the Charter is vitally necessary, but at the same time, the document itself would look optimal if its draft was developed jointly by representatives of all branches of government, and was not based on a draft in which the author carefully thought through the rights and capabilities of only one body.”

Vasily Parkhomenko, “Communists of Sevastopol”:

“What causes embarrassment? First: I can’t figure out who developed the project. Why were the deputies again excluded from developing the Charter? I thought that a commission would be created. I got ready for normal work. By the way, in my archive there are 20 versions of different charters, dating back to 1991.

Second: at the moment, the governor cannot be elected by all the people. I understand that there are formal subtleties, and this is temporary. But let's decide how we will elect a governor at the Legislative Assembly session? I am sure that a whole package of laws will need to be developed for the Charter to start working. There is a feeling of incompleteness."

Valery Saratov, ex-governor of Sevastopol:

“Of course, it is necessary to adopt the City Charter. In fact, this is a huge step forward in terms of forming a system of self-government in Sevastopol. What we dreamed about becomes reality. In general, I perceive the proposed project positively. The contents of the city's main document fully comply with Russian legislation and common sense. Of course, the Charter is imperfect. In addition to it, we will need to adopt the “Law on Municipal Construction” and the “Law on Elections” as soon as possible. But this is the next stage.”

Ivan Komelov, social activist:

“This is quite an interesting document. It contains basic clauses that make it possible to separately prescribe and adopt special legislative norms. This is very convenient, since individual laws are easier to amend than the entire Charter as a whole. Thus, both the elections of deputies and the territorial division of the city will be regulated. This is amazing. The only thing that is somewhat confusing is the fact that for now the governor will be chosen not by the population, but by representatives of the Legislative Assembly. Although, perhaps, this approach has its own meaning.”