An attempt of the Communist Party to hold a parliamentary inquiry against former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov has failed again – the proposal failed to gain the required number of votes. The communists try again. In addition, as stated by “Gazeta.ru” deputy Valery Rashkin now considering the possibility of appeal to the Supreme Court in connection with the actions of the committee on constitutional legislation, which is not considered their appeal in time.
In Wednesday’s plenary session of the State Duma deputies decided the fate of the initiative of the Communists, who proposed a parliamentary investigation against former Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov.
The position of the Communist Party in the parliamentary hearings was represented by Valery Rashkin. In his speech he praised the court, which did not let off with probation main supernumerary case “Oboronservis” Yevgenia Vasilyeva, and criticized the prosecutor’s office, “messing esprit de corps” – that she insisted on suspended sentences. However, Vasilyev a month can get parole until she will be in the “luxury prison with a hairdresser, beauty contests, pizza delivery and movies.” Serdyukov also spoke Communist, and all free. But a parliamentary inquiry is necessary not to do so.
According Rashkin, the main purpose of the investigation – to identify the causes and conditions that contributed to the facts of gross violations of financial discipline in the Defence Ministry, to tell the public about them and to make sure that this does not happen again.
«All the action as” Amazons Serdyukov, “and he himself should be evaluated not only in terms of direct financial loss to the state, but also in terms of damage to the defense capability of our country “- he explained the MP to his colleagues.
According to him, in case of failure of the investigation, the State Duma will share the blame for the” chaos “in the country’s armed forces.
According to the law the parliamentary investigation can not substitute for the inquiry, the preliminary investigation and trial, as it can not be the subject of establishing the guilt of specific individuals to the crime.
On these legal aspects noticed Vladimir Pligin, head of the committee on constitutional legislation, which in January gave a negative opinion on the initiative of the Communists. Piligin reported that nine episodes of the case that the Communists pointed to handle, already taken judicial decisions, and another 35 will be taken in the future, as the investigation continues. “We can not investigate the elements of the crime,” – he explained the position of the committee.
«In this way, the subject of a parliamentary investigation is not formulated”, – he concluded Piligin.
Communist faction submitted a draft decision to initiate a parliamentary inquiry in December last year, what did not fail to remind Rashkin: that is the question had to be considered by the Committee not later than 15 days after the treatment.
«I appeal to the Speaker Naryshkin: it is necessary to conduct an internal investigation on this matter,” – suddenly demanded another investigation of the deputy.
«If you go the other materials, it will be possible to dwell on them, but not in the investigation and other procedures” – retorted Piligin.
In support Rashkin acted as representatives of the Liberal Democratic Party, the Communist Party and “Fair Russia”. They tried to indicate to my colleagues that the proposed parliamentary inquiry into the relevant legislation. “I would like to note that almost all parliamentary inquiries – and there were 11 – were conducted in parallel with the preliminary investigation and inquiry procedure” – he reminded the representative of Communist Yuri Sinel’shchikov.
The deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party and deputy chairman of the Committee on Legislation Sergei Ivanov said that the initiators of the investigation just wanted to carefully consider suspicious activity Serdyukov episodes and find out whether or not the damage was: “We have the right to go and see.”
Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee for Security and Anti-Corruption Eser Dmitry Gorovtsov noted that the subject of a parliamentary inquiry is certainly wider than criminal law, and the position of the committee, on the contrary, limit it.
But in the end voted for the initiative only 199 deputies out of 235 present – did not have the votes to the Communists. In 2013, when a similar attempt to supporters investigation into three persons more.
Valery Rashkin said “Gazeta.ru” that his faction will try to carry out another attempt to launch a parliamentary inquiry procedure. However, this would have to collect signatures of 90 deputies. He also mentioned that considering the possibility of appeal to the Supreme Court for action by the Committee: “Why the committee on constitutional legislation allows himself to violate the rules of regulation?»
A specialist on lawmaking, associate professor of the Institute of Social Sciences RANHiGS Ekaterina Shulman explains, that in any case the institution of parliamentary investigations in Russia is much weaker than in some countries of parliamentary democracy such as the United States or Japan: “They have a sense of where the parliament have any possibility to influence the fate of the government. For example, the government is formed by the winning party or coalition of parties, the president presents one of the parties and the like. ” In our political system, the situation is different. 
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