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On Saturday, Russia’s president Dmitry Medvedev will meet with leaders of four parliamentary parties to discuss preparations for political reform. Representatives of the parliamentary opposition was created in October demarche in the State Duma, hoping that the Kremlin to them at least show respect.

On Saturday, the residence of the President of Russia in Zavidovo come the leaders of four parliamentary parties – United Russia, the LDPR, the CPRF and Fair Russia “. This was confirmed by “Gazeta.ru” a source in the presidential administration. The meeting should be attended secretary general council EP Vyacheslav Volodin, deputy speaker of the State Duma from the Liberal Democratic Party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Fair Russia faction in the State Duma Nikolay Levichev. On the meeting itself, participants learned only the day before.

The meeting will be devoted to the preparation of political reform, which next week, January 22 to discuss the state of the Presidential Council. Writing the main report on the reform, which will deliver the State Council Kaliningrad Governor Georgy Boos, close to completion, said the source “Gazety.Ru” in the Kremlin.

Thus, according to his information, the report will be the most neutral, and the most radical and ambitious proposals of parties will not get there. “Most of the proposals of the opposition will be filtered” – he said.
Thus, the source said, in a rough version of the report made no mention of the fact that political parties abolish the procedure of collecting signatures for the election. At the same time is supported by the idea of introducing elections only on party lists at the regional level.

Before the State Council of the Party, both parliamentary and extra-parliamentary, the Kremlin sent in dozens of proposals to change the electoral law.

Meeting with party leaders – the latter for the politicians to somehow influence the fate of the report. Sami policy not worry that the Kremlin did not approve of most of their ideas.

“The president simply can not take all our suggestions. Thank you and on the fact that many of the ideas discussed were voiced in his message and that will be held on a state council “- modestly said” Gazeta.ru “leader of the LDPR faction Igor Lebedev.
According to first deputy chairman of the Duma’s Communist faction Ivan Melnikov, illusions about the fact that all the proposals in the report of the Communist Party will get the president, his supporters were from the very beginning, so they expect the State Council quietly. “We expect that the power that something will change, or whether it will be a session of respect for the opposition”, – said Melnikov.

Nevertheless Melnikov hopes that a number of proposals (such as the prohibition of governors, “locomotive” headed the electoral lists) will still be taken into account. “You have to understand that the wave away from our proposals are not so simple. For a wide range of three parliamentary factions come out with similar positions. Also in October, three factions emerged from the audience not to talk about the elections and to ensure that the political atmosphere and the electoral practice, there have been concrete changes, “- said he was” Gazeta.ru.

If events unfold in a negative scenario and the opposition’s voice is heard at the State Council, worse, according to Melnikov, would not the minority, but first and foremost the authorities themselves. “They otfutbolyat no opposition, and the elections themselves, as soon not only the citizens will lose interest in them, but party activists and potential candidates”, – he said.

The leader of the faction “Fair Russia” Nikolay Levichev chose not to make plans for the future. He noted that, most likely, the tone of the state council will largely depend on the outcome of tomorrow’s meeting of leaders of parties with the president.

Among the proposals, which the party voiced previously, the abolition of early voting at the regional and municipal level, the sharp restriction of voting with absentee ballots and the elimination of the mandates by the method Imperiale, which gives an unambiguous advantage of the party, became the first in the elections, changed the rules of formation of election commissions.