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The Central election Commission requests to increase the funding of elections in the state Duma
According to “Kommersant”, the Central election Commission (CEC) appealed to the President with a request to allocate additional funds for the conduct of elections in the state Duma. Kommersant’s source in the Commission said that, in addition to those provided 10.4 billion RUB can allocate about 500 million rubles to ensure the allocation of funds, including providing employees with a system of election commissions, tried and the last part of the CEC, but to no avail.
As told “Kommersant” a source in the CEC, the government can go forward and allocate additional funds for the campaign for the election of deputies of the state Duma. “The CEC appealed to the President, who accepted our arguments and gave instructions to the government”,— told “Kommersant” a source in the CEC. According to him, “currently, the decree on the allocation of these funds is to be signed by the Chairman of the government”. “This money will allow us, in full accordance with the law to carry out all planned activities,”— said the source in the CEC.
CEC launched a pre-election debate with the Ministry of Finance
CEC in October 2015 tried to negotiate with the Ministry of Finance the budget that could be allocated to the Commission on the organization of elections of deputies of the state Duma in 2016. CEC has requested to 14.7 billion rubles., but the project main financial document of the country laid under them was RUB 4.3 billion less, despite the fact that the calculations of the CEC did not expect even the cost of video surveillance of voting
The last part of the CEC, which was headed by Vladimir Churov, debated with the Ministry of Finance about the Finance required for the conduct of elections, low in 2015. Then, the Commission had requested to the elections 14.7 billion rubles, including in connection with the increase of labor costs of employees of the system of electoral commissions given the fact that MPs are elected not only by party lists, but also in single-mandate constituencies, said the source “b” in the CEC. An amount close to this was stipulated in the feasibility study of the draft law on election of deputies of the state Duma in 2013 (then expected to spend RUB 14.3 billion). But last year the Duma elections was allocated only 10.4 billion rubles (see “Kommersant” on October 10, 2015).
Kommersant’s sources in the CEC said that after the change of the composition of the Commission in March 2016 issue had not been withdrawn.
For example, the last part emphasized the need to adequately compensate for the remuneration of members of election commissions, most of which falls in district election commissions (about 960 thousand people).
The CEC itself will deal with the media
The CEC will deal with the conflicts that arise for journalists on the day of the Duma elections on 18 September. It promised in may, CEC Chairman, Ella Pamfilova, refusing to establish a Commission with any special authority for settlement of disputes, which will be inevitable in this campaign due to the mandatory accreditation, first established to the media
This problem was raised by the head of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova. “The budget includes funding in the amount of 10.4 billion rubles, 4 billion rubles less than was justified by the CEC in its application,”— said the interlocutor of Kommersant. According to him, the requirements to the budget for the elections was changed. Managed to optimize the cost of conducting the Federal campaign. Now required is not more than 500 million rubles, said the source “Kommersant”. We are talking about the salaries of employees of the commissions.
For CEC it is “actually fight for their subordinates, because they are not very interested in working with us,” said the expert of the movement “the Voice” Andrey Buzin. “The members of the commissions during the elections observers complain: “We now know that you pay, and we work almost for nothing”,” he says. Now for the Duma elections Commission members will receive a “1.5–2 thousand rubles., if elections are combined with elections of a different level (when not paid by the Federal budget),” said Mr. Buzin.
“Churov in recent years were waiting for care, and weight of the hardware was low, and Pamfilova came, and she had a great advance of confidence,” said political analyst Yevgeny Minchenko. Besides “the money allocated for a particular program of action,” he said.
Ella Pamfilova on Wednesday promised to discuss “some very difficult regions, where the heads as if in some kind of hibernation, I think that can get away with it”, including the electoral Commission of the Moscow region. “We have a rating, we know exactly which points need to beat” she said. As head of the Russian center for training election technologies (rtsoit) in the CEC, meanwhile, was fired, Alexander Ivanchenko, who was the head of the CEC in 1996-1999. Rtsoit on Wednesday publicly criticized: offering to enter into a plan of its main events paragraph on “monitoring indicators and modalities for ensuring the legitimacy of the election of deputies of the state Duma”, which will cost 8.5 million rubles), Ella Pamfilova said that this should have been done in January.
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