Duma of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug

Duma of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Дума Чукотского автономного округа
Type
Type	Unicameral
Term limits	5 years
History
Founded	January 11, 1994 (1994-01-11)
Preceded by	Supreme Soviet of Russia
Leadership
Chairman	Maslov Alexander Ivanovich
Structure
Seats	15
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Political groups	United Russia (10)      Communist Party (2)      Liberal Democratic Party (2)      A Just Russia (1)
Elections
Voting system	Parallel voting
Last election	September 2016
Next election	September 2021
Meeting place
Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, G. Anadyr, St. Otke, 29
Website
duma.chukotka.ru

The Duma of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug is the highest permanent and only legislative body of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Together with the executive and judicial branches, the okrug's Duma is vested with power to control the okrug's own affairs with high levels of autonomy from Moscow. All members are elected by public vote and are titled as deputies. The tenure of the deputies are currently 5 years long.

History

Prior to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Supreme Soviet of RSFSR was the legislative body of the Soviet Union that was elected by members of the Congress of People's Deputies of Russia. The Supreme Soviet of Russia itself contained the Council of the Republic and the Council of Nationalities, which represented the population size and the federal subjects respectively. Up till 1990, Chukotka was administrated under Magadan Oblast, but a new law was passed to allow changes to this arrangement that year. Hence Chukotka declared its administrative independence from Magadan Oblast, to join the Russian Federation as an autonomous okrug. During the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993, the legislative body of Russia was dissolved and power was decentralized to the individual federal subjects by a presidential decree (No. 1617). Thus due to the new decree, on 11 January 1994, another new decree was established to name the new local legislative body in Chukotka as the Duma of Chukotka Autonomous Okrug. Initially the body had two chambers, the Upper house with 9 deputies and the Lower house with 6 deputies. The first legislative election was hence scheduled for 10 April 1994 for the deputies who were to have two year tenures.

Structure

The Chukotka Autonomous Okrug Duma is unicameral just like most other legislative assembly body found in Russian federal subjects. It currently comprises of 15 deputies, with 6 of them running in multi-seat constituencies and the other 9 in the single electoral district. Deputies are elected by public vote once every 5 years, whereby winners are determined by the two voting systems of first-past-the-post voting and party-list proportional representation, which is combined together in what is known as the parallel voting system. The Duma also internally elects a legislative representative to the Federation Council, which is the Upper House of Russia's legislative branch.

The executive branch of Chukotka works closely with the Duma. The executive branch is also known as the government of Chukotka and is headed by the Governor, who is the highest ranking person in the okrug. The Governor is not to be confused with the Chairman of the Duma, who is head of the Duma only.

Chairman

Chairman	Year
Sergey Aleksandrovich Povodyr	1994 - 1997
Vasilii Nikolaevich Nazarenko	1997 - 2008
Roman Arkadyevich Abramovich	2008 - 2013
Dallakyan Aramais Dzhaganovich	2013 - 2015
Valentina Vasilyevna Rudchenko	2015 - 2016
Maslov Alexander Ivanovich	since 2016

Previous legislative assemblies

Convocation	Results and development
I	The first election on 10 April 1994 resulted in 13 deputies being elected. The deputies were split between 7 single mandate constituencies and 6 three mandate constituencies, with the terms of the deputies to last for 2 years. However, because the election of the deputies coincided with the election of the governor, the term was extended to almost 3 years till 19 January 1997. Sergey Povodyr, the first chairman of the Duma was chosen by the deputies among themselves. The deputies adopted a number of laws in relation to the budget, finance and taxes. They also started work on the development of the Charter of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, which describes the basic law of the okrug. As a result, the Duma of the first convocation adopted about 100 decisions of various directions.
II	In the second election on 22 December 1996, 13 deputies were elected. The first session of the second convocation opened on 19 January 1997 and Vasilii Nazarenko was chosen likewise by the deputies among themselves by a majority vote.
III	The third convocation was elected to serve from 2001 until December 2005. The first session of the third convocation opened on 16 January 2001 and Vasilii Nazarenko was re-elected among the deputies as chairman of the Duma.
IV	In the election for the fourth convocation on 25 December 2005, 35 deputies were elected via party-list proportional representation. The first session of the fourth convocation was opened on 20 January 2006 and Vasilii Nazarenko was again re-elected to be chairman of the Duma. A constitutional amendment extended the term of the deputies of the Duma from 4 to 5 years, that was to come into effect from the legislative elections of 2011. As much as 786 laws were passed, which amounted to 55% of all laws passed in the previous four convocations. Most of these laws were related to the social condition of Chukotka, which benefitted the pensioners as well as low income citizens amongst others. In 2008, Roman Abramovich was elected to be chairman of the Duma after he had stepped down from his governor position.
V	The election for the fifth convocation was held on 13 March 2011, for which the terms of the deputies would end in March of 2016. 12 deputies were to elected. In 2013, Roman Abramovich stepped down from his position of chairman of the Duma and Dallakyan Aramais was elected to be the new chairman of the Duma. In 2015, Valentina Rudchenko replaced the former for a brief approximate time period of about one year.
VI	File:Chukotka Legislative Assembly 2016.svg      United Russia (10)      Communist Party (2)      Liberal Democratic Party (2)      A Just Russia (1) The election for the sixth convocation was held on 18 September 2016, for which the first session of the sixth convocation was opened on 30 September that year. The number of deputies had increased, from 12 to 15 and Maslov Ivanovich was elected to be the Duma's chairman.