print versionDeputy absenteeism will be traced with special chips, reports RBK Daily. It should encourage the members of State Duma to visit sessions properly.
Rules Committee leader Otari Arshba claimed, that chips will be built in deputies’ ID cards. It is not planned to implant them yet. Built in chips will monitor the arrival and departure time. This will solve session absenteeism problem. The problem can hardly be called “made out of thin air”, and the President Dmitry Medvedev brought to notice that.
Fast project implementation might be the result of lately shown State Duma sessions. Ren-TV channel showed a report, where 88 deputies passed a law, having voted on behalf of 449 deputies. Those, who were concerned, could watch deputies “on duty” running along the rows and voting for their absent colleagues, on Youtube.
The State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov insists that personal presence at sessions has to be strictly defined by a law. There also have to be reflected circumstances, when a voice can be handed over by attorney.
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