The State Duma Committee supported the project on local self-government in Russia

The State Duma Committee on State Building and Legislation supported the draft law on the general principles of organizing local self-government in Russia. This was announced on January 24 by the head of the committee, Pavel Krasheninnikov.

“I hope that tomorrow we will consider this law and adopt it in the first reading,” he said.

Krasheninnikov added that the committee received almost 40 comments on the project on local self-government.

“We received 38 responses from the constituent entities of the Russian Federation. The comments are mainly related to the transition to a single-level system of local governments. Colleagues are asking for a detailed description of this transitional period,” he said.

A draft of a new law on general principles for the organization of local self-government was submitted to the lower house of parliament on 16 December.

The bill, in particular, provides for the establishment of a single five-year term of office for mayors and all local government officials. In addition, according to the document, the head of the subject has the right to issue a warning and reprimand the head of the municipality or the head of the local administration for improper performance or non-performance of duties. The governor also has the right to remove the mayor from office.

The authors of the project noted that the draft law would allow creating a new system of local government organization, which would be based not on the territorial principle, but on the principle of binding to the population.

As Oksana Fadina, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Regional Policy and Local Self-Government, told Izvestia, the norms reflected in the bill will become a good management tool in the public sector in terms of motivating municipal managers, as they will allow “ask” not only from governors.