As the leadership of the State Council of the Republic explains, this is not an easy task, and as if it were not number one
The State Council of Tatarstan will amend the republican Constitution, renaming the president as the head of the republic, next year. But it is not known exactly when. This was stated at the final press conference by the Chairman of the State Council Farid Mukhametshin.
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The change, which the leadership of the republic has long resisted, should be adopted in compliance with the new federal law on the organization of public power in the regions. But Farid Mukhametshin, without at all questioning this fact, nevertheless stated, speaking about the timing of amendments to the republican legislation:
– I cannot say today: we will finish in June, we will finish in May. In general, the work will be serious.
At the same time, he clarified that questions about the president will be considered among all others, despite the fact that the adopted federal law “will require big and serious changes from Tatarstan.” And this big work has already been started promptly: “the process of forming an interdepartmental working group has already started, which will have to deal with changes.” More Moreover, the group already has a leader – this is deputy chairman of the State Council Marat Akhmetov.
Whether in this case we are really talking about solving some complex technical problems, or the game around the abolition of the post of the last republican president in Russia has simply moved into a new phase, we asked the head of the “Political Expert Group” Konstantin Kalachev. And, judging by his answer, no less than a six-month “transition period”, which is hinted at in Kazan, really did not appear for nothing. Here’s what the expert said:
– For Farid Mukhametshin and everyone else, this is a story not so much technical as related to the preservation of one’s own face, about how to eat a fish and not soak one’s feet. And to comply with the law on the organization of public power, and to show everyone that Tatarstan still has certain privileges. The point is that I want to satisfy the federal center, preserving my face as people who defend, say, the remnants The sovereignty gained by Tatarstan in the 90s is a special place of Tatarstan in the Russian Federation. And about taking a transitional time to move from the tough opposition to the position of power, to show off, showing: we were against, now we are for, but during this time the federal center gave us this, gave that. That is, six months have passed, and during this time we have given this, but we have received this, and the republic has risen thanks to our wisdom and integrity.
If anything, the budget of the 22nd year in the republic is in short supply. And now, in six months, it can be proved that in fact federal programs work in relation to Tatarstan in a way that they do not work in relation to any other region, that “we are actually successful lobbyists and defenders of the interests of the republic, drivers of its development, therefore, by surrendering one position, we get another.”