Medvedev harshly critical of government's failure to fulfill Constitutional Court decisions
GORKI. Nov 19 (Interfax) - The government's non-fulfillment of Constitutional Court rulings with regard to by-laws is unacceptable, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev told vice prime ministers on Monday.
"I must say the situation is extremely complicated. To be frank, it is totally unacceptable. More than 200 necessary by-laws have not been drafted - that is the quality of our work. Fifty-eight decisions of the Constitutional Court have not been fulfilled. That is a total disgrace," he said.
Medvedev ordered the government administration to supervise that work and "to put things in order."
He recalled he had ordered an analysis of the drafting of normative acts related to federal laws, which was a task of the government, and the fulfillment of Constitutional Court decisions in the past decade.
"Being a permanent body, the government must show an example of legal culture irrespective of its composition. The situation, which, I emphasize, has taken shape not right now but through a rather long period, does not allow the government to show this example. Frankly, this is proof of nihilism," the prime minister said.
"Before demanding correct behavior from others, we must bring ourselves in order," he said. Documents must be drafted; normative acts "are not just papers we were told to prepare - each normative act implies interests protected by law and acute problems of people," he said.
Medvedev ordered the government administration to make related proposals.
Igor Trunov, lawyer of the plaintiff family in the case of a traffic accident on Leninsky Avenue, appealed to the Moscow Presensky Court on November 16 in connection with the government's non-fulfillment of a Constitutional Court ruling.
"The Russian Constitutional Court acknowledged that interrelated provisions of Item 4, Part 1, Article 24 and Article 254 of the Penal Code, which legalized termination of a criminal case in connection with the death of a suspect (a defendant), were inconsistent with Articles 21, 33, 46 and 49 of the Russian Constitution to the degree to which provisions of the relevant article of the legal statute allowed termination of a criminal case in connection with the death of a suspect (a defendant) without consent of his close relatives," said the lawyer's appeal published on his website.
It also said that Trunov had appealed to the government for eliminating violations of Item 1, Article 80 of the Federal Constitutional Law on the Russian Constitutional Court with regard to the three-month period assigned for the fulfillment of Constitutional Court rulings of July 14, 2011. The lawyer asked the government to submit to the State Duma a draft federal law or amendments to the law regarding the unconstitutional provisions.
