Amendments to the Constitution: that will give us confidence in the future

People need to be confident in social security and their immutability. Constitutionally the minimum wage and pensions with mandatory indexation will give them such confidence.

About this in the program “60 minutes,” said the head of the Duma faction “United Russia” in the State Duma Sergei Neverov, commenting on the amendments to the main law of the country proposed by the President.

“constitutionally minimum wages, decent pensions and mandatory indexation can not be stopped or postponed. Because the Constitution is the basic law with all its consequences. The President, as the guarantor of the Constitution, will react if there will be a failure of the basic law. This is extremely important,” he said.

the Politician said that today, these issues are regulated in Federal laws.

“But it is important they were reflected in the basic law. Because we had periods when we have nodeindexperpage pensions due to lack of funds”, — said Neverov.

he Also commented on the transfer of the state Duma of new powers, in particular, the possibility to appoint the Prime Minister. The MP stressed that empowerment increases responsibility, not only the structure itself, but also ordinary citizens and their ability to influence the State Duma.

“Ahead of the elections, and people will be more responsible to vote for a particular candidate. Because that’s what the deputies will determine and appoint the Prime Minister and Ministers”, — said Neverov.

on 20 January the President of Russia Vladimir Putin in the Duma introduced a bill on constitutional amendments. It takes into account the provisions of his Message to the Federal Assembly. The Duma Committee on constitutional legislation and state construction recommended the adoption in the first reading the President’s bill on amendments to Constitution and proposed to consider the draft law on the Council of the Duma on January 23.