In the Duma have been laws on equal air for all parties and reduce the number of signatures

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev introduced two bills in the State Duma, reformative electoral system. This is the last of the initiatives made by the President of the Federal Assembly on November 5 last year. They relate to reducing the minimum signatures required for registration in the elections to the Duma, and guarantees the rights of all parliamentary parties to have equal access to the airwaves of public television and radio, writes the newspaper GZT.ru.

The draft law "On guarantees of equality of the parliamentary parties, with the coverage of their activities by public television and radio channels accessible to all Duma factions pledged the same amount of talk about their work on television and radio, within the framework VGTRK, that is on TV" Russia "," RTR - Planet "and" Vesti-24 ", as well as the Radio of Russia" and "Lighthouse."

The Act does not apply to coverage of the parties during election campaigns, because these issues are governed by the laws of the Russian Federation on elections and referendums, "explained in the paper attached to the presidential bill.

During the process will follow the working group, which, after the law came into force to establish a CEC of Russia. The composition of the supervisory body will include representatives from each party, the Public Chamber, Rossvyazkomnadzora and VGTRK. Manage it will be one of the members of the CEC. Panel to monitor and compare how much time during each month, highlights the work of the parties. If the CEC record that one of the parties during the month reported more than others, others will offer to compensate for this additional time editor in the next month.

In TsIKe note that it is important to compare not only the time of the ether, and informative stories about the parties.

In the Communist Party fears that the rules of the new law would be easy to circumvent. The document does not change the order of coverage of the bodies , which means the Governor or the Minister of will show the same level and without any compensation to the other parties. According to the Communists, the deputies from United Russia are also planning to introduce amendments in the bill are allocated airtime according to the mandates given to the party at the last election.

Medvedev also made to the State Duma a bill reducing the minimum signatures to register for election to the State Duma. The threshold of the collection of signatures will decline gradually. After three years at the election of deputies of the Duma sixth installment will be required to collect 50 thousand signatures is less than - 150 thousand from the present 200 thousand in each region is required to collect no more than 5 thousand signatures, but now - 10 thousands of these figures will be reduced and in respect of voters living abroad.

At all subsequent elections to the Lower House electoral race will allow the participants to collect an additional 30 thousand signatures below, that is, 120 thousand

In addition, the document establishes that the parties represented in at least one third of regional are also exempt from collecting signatures.