The relevant committee of the State Council of Tatarstan – the State Building Committee – at the plenary meeting proposed to consider the bill on the renaming of the position of the president of the republic, the Interfax correspondent reported from the meeting. The president is proposed to be called Rais.
“The Committee following the results of the meetings that took place yesterday and today, asks to include on the agenda of today’s meeting the issue of the draft law of the Republic of Tatarstan on amendments to the Constitution of the Republic of Tatarstan,” said Albert Khabibullin chairman.
At a meeting on December 22, the Committee recommended to withdraw this bill. But on the morning of December 23, the Committee held a second meeting in the mode closed from the press.
At the plenary meeting, Khabibullin said that the bill was amended: “The name of the position of senior official of Tatarstan will be“ the head – RAS of the Republic of Tatarstan ”, it is assumed to use and the abbreviated version of“ RAS of the Republic of Tatarstan ”.
The modified bill also contains transitional provisions, according to which the new name will be applied only to the newly elected senior official of Tatarstan, the head of the committee added.
A group of deputies of the State Council introduced to the regional parliament these amendments to the Constitution of the Republic on December 21. “… in the part of the second word” President of the Republic of Tatarstan “, replace the words” Head of the Republic of Tatarstan, “the bill says. It also provides for a restriction of stay in the post of head of Tatarstan for two terms. It is assumed that after the amendments to the current head of the region. These terms are reset.
Tatarstan is the only region of Russia where the President’s position has been preserved.
The State Duma in December 2010 adopted a bill on the ban on the heads of regions to be called presidents, the regions were given five years to rename, later the term was extended until 2016.
In December 2021, the Duma adopted a law on a single system of public power in the country, which forbade the heads of regions to be called presidents. Regions are obliged to make appropriate amendments to their legislation until 2023.
On July 12, 2022, the order and decree of President Vladimir Putin were published that the position of senior official of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov in official documents is now called as the Head of the Republic of Tatarstan. The State Council of Tatarstan in its normative acts will continue to call the highest official of the republic by the president, while this name remains in the constitution of the region, the speaker of the Council Farid Mukhametshin said on July 14.