Pavel Krasheninnikov, chairman of the Duma Committee on State Construction and Legislation, said that the president had submitted to the State Duma "another package of bills in order to implement the updated provisions of the Constitution."
He said that “a new version of the law on the procedure for forming the Federation Council has been developed, as well as amendments to the law“ On the status of a member of the Federation Council and the status of a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia ”.
The press service of the Committee on State Construction reported that the Federation Council, in addition to representatives from the legislative and executive authorities of the Russian regions, will be able to include former presidents, becoming senators for life, as well as “no more than 30 representatives of Russia appointed by the president, of which no more seven can be appointed for life. "
At the end of July, the chairman of the Federation Council committee on constitutional legislation, Andrei Klishas, announced the start of work on bills on the State Council and on the right of the former president of Russia to become a senator.