The Legislative Assembly of Kamchatka Krai (russian: Законодательное собрание Камчатского Края) is the regional parliament of
Kamchatka Krai
Kamchatka Krai ( rus, Камча́тский край, r=Kamchatsky kray, p=kɐmˈtɕatskʲɪj kraj) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), situated in the Russian Far East, and is administratively part of the Far Eastern Federal District. Its ...
, a
federal subject
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of
Russia
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. Together with the
executive
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** Chief executive officer (CEO), one of the highest-ranking corporate officers (executives) or administrators
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and
judicial
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branches, the Krai's legislative assembly is vested with power to control the krai's own affairs with moderate levels of autonomy from
Moscow
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. All members are elected by public vote and are titled as deputies. The term of the deputies are currently 5 years long.
History
Kamchatka Oblast was formed on 2 December 1849 with Major-General
Vasily Zavoyko
Vasily Stepanovich Zavoyko (russian: link=no, Василий Степанович Завойко; 5 July 1809 – 16 February 1898) was an admiral in the Russian navy.Supreme Soviet of RSFSR took over legislative duties. In 1977, the council was renamed the Kamchatka Regional Council of People's Deputies. During the
Russian constitutional crisis of 1993
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, the legislative body of Russia was dissolved and power was decentralized to the individual federal subjects by a presidential decree (No. 1617). The Legislative Assembly of Kamchatka Oblast and the Duma of Koryak Autonomous Okrug was thus formed in
Kamchatka Oblast
Kamchatka Oblast (russian: Камча́тская о́бласть, ''Kamchatskaya oblast'') was, until being incorporated into Kamchatka Krai on July 1, 2007, a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). To the north, it bordered Magadan Oblast ...
and
Koryak Autonomous Okrug
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*Koryaks, a people of northeastern Siberia
*Koryak language, language of the Koryaks
*Koryak Okrug, an administrative division of Kamchatka Krai, Russia
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separately respectively. Following a referendum on the question of unification on 23 October 2005, the two entities were thus merged on 1 July 2007 to form Kamchatka Krai, but the respective legislative bodies continued to work separately for about five months till they were merged as well.
Structure
The Legislative Assembly of Kamchatka Krai is
unicameral
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Unicameral legislatures exist when there is no widely perceived need for multic ...
just like most legislative assembly bodies found in other Russian federal subjects. It currently comprises 28 deputies, with 14 of them running in multi-seat constituencies and the other 14 in the single electoral district. Deputies are elected by public vote once every 5 years, whereby winners are determined by a combination of two voting systems, which are the
first-past-the-post voting
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and
party-list proportional representation
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, in what is known as the
parallel voting
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system. The Duma also internally elects a legislative representative to the
Federation Council
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, which is the Upper House of Russia's legislative branch.
The executive branch of Kamchatka works closely with the Legislative Assembly. The executive branch is also known as the government of Kamchatka and is headed by the Governor, who is the highest ranking person in the krai. The Governor is not to be confused with the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly, who is head of the Legislative Assembly only.