Parliamentarism of ancient land

Life has proved the objective necessity of establishing the institute of parliamentarism in the social life of Russia and every subject of the Russian Federation. In 1995, the State Assembly- Kurultay of the Republic of Bashkortostan, that is modern parliament of the republic was established. We can say that today it has become the political and legal institute and one of everyday and essential element in people’s life and the main factor of stabilization and democratization of the society.
Representative democracy has very old roots in Russia; it goes back to such social institutes as Veche, public assemblies already well-known in X-XI centuries. Unlike Western Europe, where nation mentality developed under the dominating influence of individualistic life image and primacy of individual rights and interests, Russia lived many centuries according to the rules of social paradigm based on collectivism principle.
During several centuries Bashkir people as native people of the South Urals living between Europe and Asia also their traditional institute of public representatives-jyjyny (people’s assemblies). The most important issues for the Bashkir clans and tribes were discussed there. Aksakal Council (Council of Elders) played significant role in the life of Bashkirs. There were also national law courts. All that institutions existed till the revolution in 1917 and some even later.
The practice showed that the way of supreme representative and legislative body of the republic was formed was right; the new parliament of Bashkortostan fit well in the system of public relations, especially in the structure of the republic government institutes and made its contribution to the creation of Bashkir legislation system that harmoniously entered all-Russian legal field to regulate the lawmaking mechanism in all its parts and to gain valuable experience of lawmaking work in new conditions.
There are 120 delegates in the Parliament of Bashkortostan where half of them have academic degrees and academic status. 25 deputies work on a continuing basis. There is also the Presidium and seven permanent committees, working in all spheres of social relations. A number of leading parties are presented in the deputy body.
The republic normative legal statements based on the federal legislation and taking into consideration the local conditions regulate different aspects of social life, economics and politics. There are 6 operating republic codexes, and over 760 acts.
Parliamentarism as a political process continues to develop actively using progressive ideas of all mankind. Of course, it is difficult to imagine some concrete standards of parliamentarism for every subject of the Russian Federation.
It is impossible to find a universal recipe of forming harmonious parliamentary relations. The interests of nations and people should be put forward values of government and society when forming parliamentarism.

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