Zakhar Prilepin will not go to the Duma and will transfer his mandate to an associate

Zakhar Prilepin will give up his deputy mandate and will wait for an offer to become the acting head of one of the regions of Russia. The writer began studying at the “School of Governors”

 Zakhar Prilepin will not go to the Duma and will transfer his mandate to a colleague

Zakhar Prilepin

The co-chairman of the party “Fair Russia” For the Truth ” writer Zakhar Prilepin will give up his deputy mandate, the press service of the party told RBC.

“Prilepin will transfer his mandate to one of his closest associates, Dmitry Kuznetsov, who headed the regional group for the Nizhny Novgorod Region,” the press service said.

According to the interlocutor, Prilepin himself, who is on the federal list of the party, intends to focus on classes at the School of Governors, where he has already started studying.

Results of the 2021 State Duma elections Data in% i i Ballots counted at0 5% barrier Source: CEC

The press secretary of the politician also told RIA Novosti that Prilepin is ready to consider an offer to become the acting head of one of the Russian regions, if such an offer is received.

The party “For the Truth” was created in February 2020 on the basis of a public movement with the same name, founded by Prilepin in the fall of 2019. Even then, the writer did not rule out his future participation in the elections to the State Duma.

On January 28, the leaders of three parties: Sergey Mironov, “For the Truth” Zakhar Prilepin and “Patriots of Russia” Gennady Semigin signed a manifesto on the unification of political platforms. At the end of February, congresses of all three parties were held in Moscow. “For the Truth”and” Patriots of Russia “were liquidated, and their leaders became co-chairs of the united party “Just Russia” For the Truth”.

In October 2016, Prilepin left for the zone of armed conflict in the Donbass, where he became the deputy commander of the battalion for working with the personnel of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). Then the writer said that his battalion was performing combat tasks, and he himself, being the deputy commander, could not “not take part in anything”.

The press secretary of the President of Russia, Dmitry Peskov, commenting on Prilepin’s trip, said that citizens of Russia and other countries of Western and Eastern Europe are taking part in hostilities on the territory of the DPR “for various reasons”, including “at the call of their hearts”.

Prilepin left the post of deputy commander of the battalion in the summer of 2018.

After the parliamentary elections of 2016, “Fair Russia” had 23 mandates in the Duma, after the elections of September 17019, 2021, the “Fair Russia” faction For the Truth ” will have 27 mandates.

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United Russia will have a constitutional majority in the new State Duma and 324 mandates (343 in the State Duma of the VII convocation), as expected, five self-nominated single-mandate candidates will join the United Russia faction. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation won 57 seats in the elections (42 in the last Duma), the LDPR-21 (29), the Civic Platform and”The Motherland” has one mandate, as in the last Duma. The party “New People” for the first time received representation in parliament, winning five seats in the elections, one deputy from the “Party of Growth” was elected to the chamber.

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