Viktor Basargin, governor of Russia's Perm Krai, announced the dissolution of the state government in a recent Cabinet meeting. A report from the Petersburg Political Foundation 12 December termed 8 governors unfit for the position, none of whom were elected to office. Basargin was rated "extremely incompetent."
All politics are local politics, and when local leaders are ineffective or abuse their powers, their administrations should be shut down. A radical solution: the governors, comptrollers and chief executives at lower levels should be elected and serve a single term of 5 years, after which they are barred from running again for 6 years. The governor should run alone, while candidates for comptroller and chief financial officer should run on a single ticket. Furthermore, voting should be on a one-vote, single-election basis so that third forces will have a chance to work their way into the system. See the Charter for Permanent Peace and Development.
