Parliament awaits Vladimir Putin's address on September 30

Parliament awaits Vladimir Putin's address on September 30



Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing to address the Federal Assembly on September 30: after summing up the results of referendums in the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions of Ukraine. Four interlocutors in both chambers of the Russian parliament, as well as a source in the presidential administration (AP), told Vedomosti about this. The interlocutor in the State Duma says that the president will address the Federal Assembly in the Kremlin, as was the case in 2014. “The procedure [будет] exactly the same as in 2014. [с Крымом]. We will accept new territories,” says another source in the lower house of parliament.

Referendums in the DPR, LPR, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions on joining Russia began on September 23 and will continue until September 27. On September 23, VTsIOM published the results of the survey, from which it follows that 87% of citizens of the DPR and LPR, 80% of residents of the Zaporozhye region and 69% of the Kherson region plan to take part in it. According to VTsIOM, 97% of respondents can vote for joining Russia in the DPR and LPR, 89% in the Kherson region, and 87% in Zaporozhye.

A Vedomosti source close to the Presidential Administration says that the results of the plebiscite are planned to be summed up on September 28-29.

The fact that in the Zaporozhye region the results of the referendum are planned to be announced on September 28, said the head of the pro-Russian military-civilian administration of the region Yevgeny Balitsky. The Central Election Commission of the LPR is also guided by this date. "I can't really say right now. [когда будут зафиксированы итоги референдумов о присоединении к РФ], - said on September 23 the press secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov. "But I'm actually convinced that it will be fast enough." According to him, this will require the decision of both the Russian Parliament and the President - the signing of the necessary documents.

Vedomosti sent an inquiry to Peskov about Putin's possible appeal to the Federal Assembly.

Such an appeal by the head of state is not a mandatory part of the procedure, follows from the law “On the procedure for admission to the Russian Federation and the formation of a new subject of the Russian Federation in its composition”, as well as the practice of eight years ago. At that time, the addressees of Putin's speech were members of the Federation Council, deputies of the State Duma, representatives of the Republic of Crimea and Sevastopol, already at that time the president addressed them as citizens of Russia.

In 2014, the referendum in Crimea was held on March 16. The next day, a resolution of the State Council of the peninsula on independence was adopted, in which there was an appeal to Russia with a proposal to accept Crimea as part of Russia as a new subject. On the same evening, Putin signed a decree recognizing the Republic of Crimea as an independent state.

And on March 18, Putin addressed the Federal Assembly in the Kremlin. There he asked the deputies and senators to support the constitutional law he had introduced on the admission of the peninsula into Russia and the creation of two new subjects of the Federation (the Republic of Crimea and the federal city of Sevastopol) as part of the Russian Federation, as well as to ratify the treaty on their entry into Russia - signed with their leaders to this point.

On March 19, the Constitutional Court already checked the constitutionality of the treaty. The term for the adoption of the law on the new subjects of the Russian Federation is not specified, but then the speaker of the State Duma, Sergei Naryshkin, promised that the chamber "will do everything quickly and responsibly." On March 20, the deputies adopted the law, and on March 21 it passed through the Federation Council and was signed by the president.



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