MOSCOW, July 15. /TASS/. President Vladimir Putin has signed a law on rescheduling Russia's federal parliamentary elections in 2016 from December to the third Sunday of September.
The document, posted on the official portal of legal information Wednesday, includes amendments to Articles 5 and 102 of the law on elections of deputies of the Russian State Duma, the lower house of parliament.
Article 102 is added by a new provision saying that the elections of the State Duma deputies of the seventh convocation are held on the third Sunday of September 2016.
The new State Duma is to hold its first meeting no later than on the 30th day after its election.
The amendments to Article 5 say that the parliamentary election day is on the third Sunday of the month when the constitutional term for which the State Duma of previous convocation was elected expires.
After 2016, all the next elections to the lower house will be held on the third Sunday of September.
The law envisages compensations to those deputies of the sixth convocation who will not be re-elected to the new State Duma or state bodies in the Russian federal subjects and local self-government bodies.
On July 1, Russia’s Constitutional Court announced a decision acknowledging that shifting the 2016 elections from December to September is in line with the country’s main law. The decision came after a respective inquiry from the Federation Council, Russia’s upper house of parliament.
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