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Д.Медведев.Заседание Госсовета.22.01.10.Part 1

Speech at State Council Meeting on Developing Russias Political System.Part 1
January 22, 2010
The Kremlin, Moscow

Выступление на заседании Госсовета по вопросам развития политической системы России.
22 января 2010 года Москва, Кремль

PRESIDENT OF RUSSIA DMITRY MEDVEDEV: Good afternoon, colleagues.

Developing Russias political system is the subject of todays State Council meeting. This subject is out of the ordinary for the State Council, as it is the first time that we are holding a meeting devoted exclusively to domestic policy and the development of our political system and democratic institutions.

This is also the first time that the leaders of all of our countrys political parties are present at a State Council meeting, so I hope that our discussions today will be serious and direct.

For everyone present here political life is a part of your daily work. You have to work together with public organisations and citizens, criticise others and respond to criticism in your address, prepare, take part in and organise elections, find common ground between different social groups interests, and, finally, maintain in all of these endeavours our countrys political stability.

All of you have contributed to building todays political system, and I am willing to repeat words I have spoken on many past occasions and say that we have a political system that works. It is far from ideal, but it does work. The regional leaders and party leaders have done a lot to ensure that our political system and our countrys democracy are up to the task and able to work.

In its modern understanding the political system is a rather broad concept that encompasses all of the states fundamental institutions, including the courts, law enforcement agencies and government agencies. In other words, it covers the executive functions of power, the whole range of federal relations, civil society institutions, and political parties, of course.

I propose that we discuss all different issues today, including those I named, and not just limit ourselves to discussing elections. Each issue demands a whole separate examination, and we can outline the main directions for continuing the discussions we begin today.

In my opening remarks I will say a few words about some of the matters I consider most important, issues that I mentioned in my Address to the Federal Assembly last year, and that concern development of the constitutional principle of a multiparty system and increasing the level of political competition and the quality of popular representation.

Effective decisions have been taken over these last years to strengthen and consolidate parties. At the same time, parties have received what I would call unprecedented new possibilities. Elections to the State Duma now take place solely on the basis of party lists. At least half of all deputies in regional parliaments are also elected on the basis of party lists.

Parties receive financing from the federal budget. In other words, they exist on taxpayers money. Starting last year, parties have the sole right to nominate and submit to the president candidates for the post of regional governor.

I could go on with the list of parties powers. As a result of these steps we have taken over these last years, we now have fewer parties, but their influence has increased considerably, especially at regional level. They have become stronger organisationally too, and this goes for the ruling party and the opposition parties.

I remind you that in 2004, we had 48 parties. Today we have seven parties. But the number of party factions in the regional parliaments has risen dramatically from 91 in 2004, to 211 in 2007, and 248 in 2009. I remind you that United Russia had factions in 56 regions in 2004, and by last year had factions in every single region in the country. The Communist Party increased its number of factions in regional parliaments from 17 in 2004, to 67 last year. The Liberal Democratic Party saw its number of factions increase from 6 in 2004, to 43 last year, and A Just Russia saw its number go up from 18 in 2006, to 50 in 2009. Some of the other parties are also represented in regional parliaments. These figures speak for themselves.

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