"The Central Election Commission cannot go on the way it is now. It ought to step down," he said.
The Communist Party and the movement, For a Worthy Life, will gather for a joint session within a few days, and intend it to give their demand a more detailed wording, Glazyev added.
In today's hearings, the Supreme Court confirmed the legality of a recent Central Election Commission resolution to ban the Left-initiated national referendum, and turned down an appeal filed by the Communist Party and the movement, For a Worthy Life, against the resolution.
The referendum initiators announced they would now appeal against the Supreme Court verdict.
"We are also ready, however, to arrange what has become known as 'people's referendum'. It will come as a political action that will allow the public speak up before the national top on key issues, even in that format," Glazyev said.
As the Central Election Commission assumes, the referendum will encroach on government budgetary competences, thus to get out of compliance with the acting legislation. Glazyev and Communist activists have just the contrary opinion on the issue.
"That was a ridiculous pretext. It will take no budget money at all to arrange the referendum we are demanding," Glazyev said.
As Ivan Melnikov, First Deputy Chairman of the Communist Party Central Committee and State Duma member, sees it, Communist spokesmen offered sufficient proof of legal compliance of the questions they had drafted for the referendum.
"We won the discussion with the Central Election Commission, as far as its content was concerned. We were able to prove the legal compliance of questions we had offered," he said.
As for upcoming Communist moves, he said the Communist Party would "appeal to a higher instance-the judicial cassation board."
Communists have not given up the referendum idea. They "will start preparing a basis for a referendum, establish initiative groups, and ask questions to the Central Election Commission", added the parliamentarian.
