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Transition to parliamentary republic dangerous for Russia - Zorkin

Russian Parliament AdjourningST. PETERSBURG. Dec 9 (Interfax) - Transitioning to a parliamentary form of governance would be dangerous for Russia, Russian Constitutional Court President Valery Zorkin said.

"I believe that such a transition is unlikely to be reasonable and is simply dangerous in the medium term," Zorkin said in an interview with Interfax.

"Although a parliamentary republic can ensure representation of various public forces and democratic foundations of the government, it is a specific model with a whole host of pre-requisites. This is precisely why it is quite uncommon among even stable democracies," he said.

If Russia had chosen this parliamentary path during the creation of the 1993 Constitution, "the country would have long fallen apart, and its territory would have been engulfed by the fire of a new civil war and flooded with blood," he said.

"For instance, such are the results of recent attempts to introduce a parliamentary form of government in countries with a difficult socio-political situations. I will not name those countries, they are well-known to everyone who is watching the evolvement of political processes in the CIS and abroad," the Constitutional Court president said.

"Do Russia and its citizens need this? I think the answer to this question can only be negative," Zorkin added.

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