Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk region rejected the draft law on the return of direct elections of the mayor of Irkutsk. This is reported on the website of the regional parliament on Wednesday, June 28. Against the document, 26 people voted, for - nine, two abstained, clarifies irk. En. According to the chairman of the committee on legislation on state construction and local government Boris Alekseev, the current way of electing the head of the city can not be regarded as limiting the electoral rights of citizens, because it is based on the norms of federal legislation. In addition, according to Alekseev, his legality was confirmed by the Constitutional Court of Russia. The legislative initiative on the return of direct elections was made by deputies from the Communist Party faction.

The document proposed to establish as the only way to elect the heads of municipalities of the Angara region direct elections. For these purposes, it was necessary to exclude the provisions limiting the validity of this rule in Irkutsk, as well as to recognize as invalid the article regulating the special procedure for electing the head of the municipality,. Direct elections of the mayor of Irkutsk were canceled in 2015. The mayor now elects the local legislature.

Original article: Irkutsk left without direct mayoral election.