Opening Remarks at Meeting with Members of the United Russia Parliamentary Group
July 1, 2006.Part 1
Lesniye Dali Guest-House, Moscow Region
Вступительное слово на встрече с членами парламентской фракции «Единая Россия»
1 июля 2006 года
Московская область, пансионат «Лесные дали»
PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN: Good afternoon, dear colleagues,
We meet regularly and always here, it seems. Given the number of parliamentary deputies your party has the constitutional majority I think that these consultations with the party, with the partys parliamentary group, are very important.
I completely understand your desire to focus party work on resolving issues that really matter to the public. Timely decisions have been taken in the social sphere, for example, to increase child benefits, student allowances and address similar matters.
Another example is the abolition of the inheritance tax and the decision to simplify property registration procedures. These measures have been dubbed the dacha amnesty, and I think this is perfectly fair. It is also good that the procedures for examination of appeals from citizens to the authorities have also become simpler.
I am grateful to you for supporting important political initiatives. The Public Council, for example, has now begun work. Clarifications have been made to electoral law and the legislation on political parties. Laws have been passed to develop civil society, establish procedures for parliamentary control and combat extremism. The Water Code has been adopted. Procedures for registration and use of agricultural land have been simplified. The reduction of the legal prescription applying to privatisation deals has helped strengthen ownership rights. Work has been done to develop bankruptcy and licensing legislation.
Your initiative has brought order to utilities price-setting by municipal services providers, and the law on special economic zones, meanwhile, will help us create favourable conditions for developing innovative business.
Furthermore, United Russia has stepped up its ideological work considerably and has become a lot more recognisable. You have your own political vision of Russia as a sovereign democratic state with a competitive market economy and an effective social policy.
All of this creates a solid foundation for the party to increase its role and significance in the life of our country. If United Russia truly wants to open up new political horizons, it must increase its practical impact today and in the future, for the future of our country. This requires the party to develop its human resources and intellectual potential and to be able to make use of this potential to resolve strategic tasks. Of course, this potential cannot be built up overnight, but requires systematic effort.
In this respect there are several points I would like to note.
First, the party could take part in training people to work in civil service and local self-government. The situation is complicated, especially at local level. This issue has been much discussed both in the Government and the parliament. The human resources situation is complicated. According to information from the Central Electoral Commission, only 19 percent of deputies in the municipal representative bodies were put forward by political parties. This means that the majority of the 34 political parties currently registered were not ready to take on responsibility for the work of local self-government. At the same time, as at May 1, the number of deputies in the municipal representative bodies had undergone a 2.5-fold increase and now comes to 240,000 people. I note that 7,000 of them have not even completed their school education. This is not to question their personal merit and public activeness, but we need to be honest that there is a need to provide deputies with additional training in the skills of rational and efficient administration. Deputies need to learn more about the subtleties of legal regulation, all the more so as they are already working now at local level on carrying out the large-scale national projects and implementing the new demographic initiatives.
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