[1] First, the total number of the members of the Pre-Parliament had to be 313 (15% of each faction and group of the Democratic Seating).

However, the new Provisional Government, formed on September 25 (October 8), changed it composition; representatives of the so-called qualifying organizations and institutions (cadet parties, business associations, etc.)

According to the testimony of the leader of the cadets Pavel Milyukov, at the first meeting, “the members of the Council spoke to each other, looking around: it’s good if the Constituent Assembly would be no worse than this!” [2] “The Constitution of the Pre-Parliament,” the RSDLP leader of the Pre-Parliament Fyodor Dan later wrote, “due to the resistance of the government, was disfigured significantly in comparison with the first provisions issued by the Central Election Committee.

Contrary to these provisions, the Council of the Republic formally received only the rights of an advisory body”.

Nikolai Avksentiev, right-wing Socialist Revolutionary, was elected as a chairman of the Pre-Parliament.