United Russia has approved the list of candidates for the State Duma elections. The party’s list, as previously reported by RBC, was divided into 57 regional groups. Most of them will be headed by governors
The participants of the United Russia congress approved the party’s electoral list for the upcoming State Duma elections.
At the suggestion of President Vladimir Putin, the head of the list includes Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Chief physician of the infectious diseases hospital in Kommunarka Denis Protsenko, co-chairman of the central headquarters of the ONF Elena Shmeleva and Commissioner for Children’s Rights Anna Kuznetsova. The head of the party, Dmitry Medvedev, did not get into it.In total, the electoral list includes more than 600 candidates for deputies, according to the EP website.
“United Russia”, as previously reported by RBC, divided the party’s list into 57 regional groups. Most of them will be headed by governors. The regional group from Moscow will be headed by the mayor of the capital Sergey Sobyanin, and from the Moscow region-the head of the region Andrey Vorobyov. Also among the current governors are regional groupsIt will be headed by Olsen Nikolaev (Yakutia), Alexey Tsydenov (Buryatia), Igor Kobzev (Irkutsk Region), Andrey Travnikov (Novosibirsk Region). The head of the Crimea Sergey Aksenov became the leader of the regional group for the republic and Sevastopol, the acting head of Dagestan Sergey Melikov for Dagestan, the Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov for Chechnya.
The largest regional group in the Far East will be headed by Deputy Prime Minister and Presidential Envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Yuri Trutnev, as previously reported by RBC. Number one in the EP list for Tatarstan is the President of the Republic, Rustam Minnikhanov. The former head of the FIU and former Minister of Labor and Social Protection Maxim Topilin joined this regional group. His possible participation in the campaign was previously reported by RBC sources. One of the interlocutors of RBC said that the nomination to the State Duma is a personal initiative of the former head of the Pension Fund.
Presidential Envoy to the Ural Federal District and former Minister of Construction and Housing and Communal Services Vladimir Yakushev headed the regional group No. 9 for the Kurgan, Tyumen regions, KhMAO and YaNAO. The leader of the regional group of the EP list in St. Petersburg was the director of the Hermitage Mikhail Piotrovsky.
State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin will head the party’s electoral list for the Saratov region. He will also be nominated to the State Duma from the Saratov 163rd single-member electoral district. Group No. 31 (Kostroma and Yaroslavl regions) will be headed by the State Duma Deputy, the first female cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.
In addition, the EP approved candidates for single-member districts. Among them are deputies Sergey Neverov (Smolensk region), Andrey Isaev (Udmurt single-member electoral district), Nikolai Valuev (Bryansk Region), deputy Alexander Khinshtein is represented in the Samara single-member district, and Irina Yarovaya in the Kamchatka Territory. Amongthe new candidates are the Minister of Sports of the Moscow Region Roman Teryushkov, who is participating in the elections from the Lyubertsy single-member district, the rector of the D. I. Mendeleev RCTU Alexander Mazhuga (Tushinsky electoral district of Moscow) and the president of the medical center named after him. Dmitry Rogachev Alexander Rumyantsev (Cheremushkinsky electoral district of the capital).
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, this year’s State Duma elections will be held in three days, from September 17 to 19. A total of 450 deputies will be elected, of which 225 will be on party lists, and another 225 will be on single-member constituencies. In Moscow, Sevastopol, Kursk, Murmansk, Nizhny Novgorod, Rostov and Yaroslavl regions, you can vote online.