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#Putin continues centralisation of power in #Russia, summary by Russia Election Monitor:
By the end of the fall, the State Duma will adopt a bill on municipal reform. According to the bill, by 2028 all rural and urban settlements should be merged into municipal or urban districts, and their councils and administrations should be liquidated, - Vedomosti wrote.
As a result of the reform, Russia will have only three elected levels of government - federal, regional and district (municipal). The councils that existed below the district level - city and village councils - will be eliminated. The elimination of city and village councils and administrations means that the local residents are deprived of the most accessible and understandable elected bodies.
Personal comment: rural and urban district councils were the highest level of Russian system where some actual democracy was allowed and people could have been actually elected. This was because Kremlin believed that challenges such as installation of park porches or planting trees were uncontroversial politically and not attractive from financial point of view. From 2028 even this will be taken under strict party control.
Source: https://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/articles/2024/09/24/1064105-gosduma-primet-zakonoproekt-o-munitsipalnoi-reforme
By the end of the fall, the State Duma will adopt a bill on municipal reform. According to the bill, by 2028 all rural and urban settlements should be merged into municipal or urban districts, and their councils and administrations should be liquidated, - Vedomosti wrote.
As a result of the reform, Russia will have only three elected levels of government - federal, regional and district (municipal). The councils that existed below the district level - city and village councils - will be eliminated. The elimination of city and village councils and administrations means that the local residents are deprived of the most accessible and understandable elected bodies.
Personal comment: rural and urban district councils were the highest level of Russian system where some actual democracy was allowed and people could have been actually elected. This was because Kremlin believed that challenges such as installation of park porches or planting trees were uncontroversial politically and not attractive from financial point of view. From 2028 even this will be taken under strict party control.
Source: https://www.vedomosti.ru/politics/articles/2024/09/24/1064105-gosduma-primet-zakonoproekt-o-munitsipalnoi-reforme