Regional law «On the status of member of the Legislative Assembly of Primorsky Territory» now requires lawmakers to declare income and expenses, regardless of whether they work in a professional manner or not.
Already this year, MPs have to report those expenditures in 2012 that exceed the three-year total family income. These include the acquisition of land, real estate, transport, securities or shares.
Changes include the duty of the deputy also provide information on the costs of their wives /husbands and young children.
Earlier, the amendments to the law «On the status of member of the Legislative Assembly of the Primorsky Territory,» passed by the Legislative Assembly on 27 February in the first reading, have been rejected by the governor. In the previous version of the law to provide information on income and expenditure of the family ordered only deputies AP PC running at all times.
«My position is this — the status of the MP as a public policy to the declaration of income, without exception, he is working on a professional basis or not. I hope you will support my idea of the full report of deputies to the voters,» , — Said Vladimir Miklushevsky.
Commented Chairman of the Committee on Rules of Procedure of the Legislative Assembly, Deputy Ethics and organization of regional Constantine Mezhonov:
— We tried to thoroughly look into the matter to get out of our law, all legal conflicts and lead maritime law in line with federal law. For this, we turned to the practice of other subjects and for clarification of the relevant committee of the State Duma. We were told that report their income to all MPs, regardless of the basis on which they work, as Member of the Legislative Assembly — is a government job that requires a certain transparency to the voters and monitoring bodies and anti-corruption.