Maikop/Agency Caucasus – The names of three candidates for parliament speakership in Adygea are now available for submission to the administration of Russian Federation.
President Aslan Thakushinov of Adygea informed the Adygei deputies at a meeting on January 21 about the three candidates. The president is, however, apparently under pressure from Moscow, capital of Russia, to have a Russian as the parliament speaker of his country.
The three names whose nomination was agreed to by officials in Moscow are as follows: "Anatoli Ivanov, who is the Deputy Parliament Speaker of Adygea; Aleksandr Luzin, who is the Chief Executive of the United Russia’s Office in Adygea; and Sergei Pismak, who is the Deputy President of the Adygei Committee on Affairs of Culture, Sports, Media and of Relations with Civilian Organizations.
It provoked verbal reaction when none of the three candidates were allowed to be Adygei. Arambiy Hapay, a member of the Adygei Khase, a civil society organization, and who is also Head of the Sambo Federation of Adygei, defined the absence of Adygei candidates for parliament speakership of Adygea as a sign of the federal center’s decision to wipe out the Adygei Republic. "The president of Adygea’s insistence on this list of three candidates shows that Adygei officials are willing to act in self-destruction."
Hapay also said that the administration in Moscow was now in a position to decide who would be in the Adygei parliament and who would not–something which had not happened even during the period of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Since the former parliament speaker of Adygea was appointed in the 2 December 2007 elections by the United Russian Party as a representative of Adygea in Duma, this position has remained vacent. KU/ÖZ/FT
