Candidates for Audit, Public Chambers should be nominated by Duma - Putin
MOSCOW. Feb 6 (Interfax) - The rules for forming the Audit and Public Chambers should be changed by transferring the relevant powers from the head of state to parliament, said Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin.
"It would be right to adopt a new legal framework for nominating candidatures for the chairman and auditors of the Audit Chamber and for forming the list of appointees in the Public Chamber," Putin wrote in his new article titled, "Democracy and the quality of the state," due to be published in the Kommersant newspaper on Monday.
"Candidates must be nominated not by the president as they are now, but by the State Duma Council on the basis of an approval of the candidature by all factions," the prime minister said.
"To secure a victory against systemic corruption, we need to separate not only power and property, but also the executive power and control over it," he said.
"Both the authorities and the opposition must bear joint political responsibility for the fight against corruption," he said.
Parliamentarians "should think about giving real meaning to the parliamentary investigation procedure enshrined in law," Putin said.