State Council of Crimea
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| Founded | 17 March 2014 |
| Preceded by | Supreme Council of Crimea |
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| Seats | 75 |
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First election | 14 September 2014 |
Last election | 8 September 2024 |
Next election | 2029 |
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| Building of the State Council of Crimea,Simferopol | |
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| This article is part of a series on the politics and government of |
| Crimea |
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| Republic of Crimea (territory occupied byRussia 2014–present) |
| Autonomous Republic of Crimea (withinUkraine, 1991–present) |
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| Political status of Crimea Politics of Russia • Politics of Ukraine |
TheState Council of Crimea[a] is theparliament of theRussia-administeredRepublic of Crimea. It claims to be a continuation of the 'Supreme Council of Crimea'[2] following a vote by theUkrainian parliament to dissolve theSupreme Council of Crimea.[3][4][5] The Parliament is housed in theParliament building in the centre ofSimferopol.
Following the events of 2014,Crimea is a territory currentlyunder dispute betweenRussia and Ukraine with Russia administering the territory but most countries continuing to recognise the territory as Ukrainian.
During the period of time in which Crimea was controlled by Ukraine, the Parliament was unable to appoint thePrime Minister of Crimea on its own, being able to appoint him only with theadvice and consent of thePresident of Ukraine. This restriction did not sit well with the Parliament andits constituents, creating a long-standing rift between them and the national government of Ukraine.[citation needed]
As theCrimean crisis unfolded, the Parliament building was seized by unidentified pro-Russian gunmen. Under their control, the Parliament removed the incumbent Ukrainian-consented Prime Minister of Crimea and unilaterally appointedSergey Aksyonov in his stead. The disbandment was also caused by the belief that the Crimean Parliament collaborated with Russian troops in the region against Ukrainian authorities.[6] Days later,[quantify] the Crimean Parliament reunifiedits territorial jurisdiction with the city ofSevastopol intoa single united nation andunilaterally declared their independence from Ukraine followinga referendum. This newly formed nation thenacceded to Russia which ultimately transferred the Crimean Parliament undera newly formed federal subject of Russia.
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TheSupreme Council of Crimea was regulated according to a legislation passed by theUkrainian parliament on 10 February 1998.[7] The parliament lacked theright of initiative but was authorized to fix its own election date under theCrimean constitution.[8][9][10]
The way council members were elected was changed several times. Fromthe 1998 elections, a majoritarian system[which?] had been introduced that did not ensure the proper proportional representation of Crimean minorities in the council, especially that ofCrimean Tatars.[further explanation needed][11]
On 27 February 2014, during the2014 Crimean crisis,Refat Chubarov, leader ofMejlis of the Crimean Tatar People and member of theCouncil of Ministers of Crimea, said that unknown gunmen seized theBuilding of the Supreme Council of Crimea on Karl Marx Street and the building of the Council of Ministers on Kirov Avenue in Simferopol.[12]
Fifty gunmen occupied the building of the Crimean legislature, barricaded the building and installed machine guns at the front entrance.[citation needed] Roman Sohn from theEUobserver wrote that, "[the gunmen] let in [the Speaker of the Parliament] and the members of the presidium of the Crimean legislature, while denying entry to officials of its executive office."[13]
The Council then proceeded to hold an emergency session and passed amotion of no confidence in the Council of Ministers and adopted a resolution to terminate its powers.[12] Such session, however, was described as being, "undersiege and in violation of all due process" by Roman Sohn from theEUobserver.[13] The parliament dismissed the chairman and Prime Minister of Crimea,Anatolii Mohyliov, pursuant to Article 136 of theConstitution of Ukraine, and replaced himde facto withSergey Aksyonov, leader of theRussian Unity party.[13] This act has sparked some debate in the international community, as theConstitution of Ukraine establishes that the council can only appoint the Prime Minister in consultation with thePresident of Ukraine.[14][15] The contention strives on disagreements on who is the actual legitimate President of Ukraine, with the newly installed government in Ukraine considering the newly installedOleksandr Turchynov as the incumbent Acting President, while the Council considers Turchynov's appointment as illegitimate.
The Council then voted to hold areferendum on the independence of Crimea on 25 May 2014.[16] Olha Sulnikova, head of information and analysis department of parliament, reported on the phone from inside the parliamentary building that 61 of the registered 64 deputies had voted for the referendum resolution and 55 for the resolution to dismiss the government.[17] According to another source three members of all the 64 members of the supreme council could not vote for theCrimean referendum as their voting cards did not work in the system[citation needed].
Interfax-Ukraine reported "it is impossible to find out whether all the 64 members of the 100-member legislature who were registered as present, when the two decisions were voted on or whether someone else used the plastic voting cards of some of them" because due to the armed occupation of parliament it was unclear how many members of parliament were present.[17] The Norwegian newspaperAftenposten suggested in an article from 9 March, that 36 members had been present at the voting procedure.[18] Enver Abduraimov, member of the parliament presidium, said that he did not go inside when he saw that raiders who secured the building were confiscating all communications devices from deputies. Andriy Krysko, head of the Crimean branch of the Voters Committee of Ukraine, announced that no one from the parliament secretariat was in the building when voting took place.[17]
Vladimir Konstantinov, Chairman of the Supreme Council of Crimea, and the newde facto Prime Minister, Sergey Aksyonov, announced that they refused to recognize the dismissal ofViktor Yanukovych as President of Ukraine, and viewed him as legitimate.[19][20] Aksyonov added "we will follow his directions".[21]
On 1 March 2014, the Acting President of Ukraine,Oleksandr Turchynov, signed a decree declaring the appointment of Sergei Aksyonov unconstitutional.[22]
On 15 March 2014, Ukraine'sVerkhovna Rada dissolved the Supreme Council of Crimea. A total of 278 MPs, out of 296 registered for the meeting on Saturday, voted for the relevant decree.[23]
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Factions are a form of association of members of parliament legally recognized by the council. They are formed on the basis of personal written statements of deputies elected in multi-member constituencies and single-mandate majoritarian constituencies for elections of deputies of the council from Republican organizations of political parties.
The council is presided by aPresidium composed by theChairman, aFirst Deputy Chairman, and aDeputy Chairman asex-officio members.
On 14 September 2014→ two factions were formed at the opening session of the new parliament formed after the2014 Crimean parliamentary election.
The current seats occupied by each faction are as follows:
| Party | Seats | Ratio |
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| ER | 70 | 71.06% |
| LDPR | 5 | 8.14% |
| Total | 53.61%% |
Only two parties overcame the election threshold:United Russia won 70 mandates of the Crimean Republic's State Council 75 seats because its candidates won in all 25 single-member constituencies and it won 71.06% of the party-list vote; the other 5 mandates went to theLiberal Democratic Party of Russia who won 8.14% of the party-list vote.[24][25][26] The voter turnout was 53.61%.[25]
803 candidates had tried to win seats; 108 candidates in one of the single-member constituencies and the rest as candidates as member of 12 political parties.[26]
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