China News Agency, Moscow, July 1 (Reporter Wang Xiujun) The online voting stage of the draft amendment to the Russian Constitution ended on June 30, and the Russian Central Election Commission announced that the online voting rate reached 93.02%. Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a televised speech on the 30th calling on everyone to participate in the July 1 vote and emphasized that the content of the constitutional amendment will only take effect with the consent of the people.
On June 25 local time, the Russian people voted at the polling station No. 2766 in Moscow. On that day, the draft amendment to the Russian Constitution began a referendum. China News Service reporter Wang Xiujun
According to the rules of the Russian Central Election Commission, from June 25 to July 1, Russia will begin an all-Russian vote on the draft constitutional amendment. Among them, the citizens of Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod Oblasts can vote online in the first 6 days. This is the first time that Russia adopted online voting in major political events after it passed a law allowing remote voting during elections in late May. According to news from the Russian Central Election Commission on the 30th, a total of nearly 1.2 million people registered to vote online, and eventually received more than 1.1 million online votes. July 1st is the main polling day for the all-Russian vote to amend the constitution, when the public can only vote at the polling station. Putin had previously signed an order to make July 1 a non-working day.
Putin issued a televised speech on the 30th, calling on all people to vote on the draft constitutional amendment on July 1 to express their opinions. He said that if the public voted for the constitutional amendment, the common values of the people would be written into the constitution and protected by the constitution. At the same time, he emphasized that the content of the amendment will only take effect with the support and consent of the people.
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Putin proposed to amend the constitution in his State of the Union address issued on January 15. The constitutional amendments include strengthening the power of the State Duma in the formation of government cabinets; giving the Federal Council (the upper house of parliament) the power to appoint the president and judges of the Supreme Court; prohibiting senior officials from holding dual nationality or long-term foreign residence permits; clarifying the status of the Federal Council of State, etc. . Since then, when the State Duma (lower house of parliament) conducted the second reading of the draft constitution amendment, it added content to allow the current Russian president to participate in the 2024 presidential election again.
This vote is the last link in the important political event of the revision of the Russian Constitution. Previously, the draft amendment was approved by the State Duma, the Federal Council and the local council and confirmed by the Constitutional Court. According to the original plan, the all-Russia vote on the draft constitution amendment should be held on April 22, but the vote was postponed because of the new coronavirus epidemic. (Finish)