The state Duma Committee on Federal structure and local government recommended to reject the consideration in the first reading a bill prohibiting close relatives of officials to engage in entrepreneurial activities. The initiative was made in January, a Deputy from the Communist party Vadim Soloviev.
“The truth, of course, is (in the bill), but we, as legislators, are not able to accept this legislative initiative”, – said at the meeting, the member of the relevant Committee member Margarita Surganova.
According to her, the bill “actually proposes to deprive the individual citizen to hold any government, either civil or municipal office in this or that structure”. “Due to the contradiction to the constitutional principle of equal access of citizens to public office, the settlement proposed restrictions in the current legislation, it is proposed … to reject this bill,” she concluded.
The bill Solovyov foresees that a citizen cannot be accepted on civil service “in cases of close relationship or property (parents, spouses, children, brothers, sisters, and brothers, sisters, parents, children of spouses and spouses of children) with a person engaged in entrepreneurial activities, if the main is replaced or the highest civil service positions and if the position of civil service related to the direct ownership or podnadzornoy a business”
