reports On the evening of December 17, at the congress of the Union of Right Forces held in Moscow, a new Federal Political Council of the party was elected, RIA Novosti .

Earlier on Monday, the entire leadership of the Union of Right Forces resigned due to the party's loss in the parliamentary elections on December 2. Let us recall that the Union of Right Forces was unable to overcome the seven percent barrier to entry into the Duma, gaining only 0.96 percent of the votes.

Nevertheless, the SPS congress re-elected Nikita Belykh to the post of chairman of the party’s political council. 84 delegates voted for this decision, 21 people were against it. remained deputy chairman . Leonid Gozman , who has held this position for more than two years,

The new political council included 34 instead of the previous 25 people. 63 candidates were put up for voting. A total of 139 delegates voted, one protocol was invalid.

The largest number of votes was received by one of the leaders of the Union of Rightist Forces , Boris Nemtsov , who was previously nominated by the congress as a candidate for the post of President of Russia: 126 people voted for him. Nikita Belykh received 116 votes, the head of RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais - 113 votes.

The new members of the political council, in particular, were the daughter of the former Prime Minister of Russia Maria Gaidar, the famous “expert” Alexander Byalko and Vladimir Kara-Murza, who heads the initiative group to nominate Soviet dissident Vladimir Bukovsky for president of the Russian Federation .

Nikita Belykh remained at the head of the Union of Right Forces