The State Duma speaker Sergei Naryshkin said on Saturday about his intention to join "United Russia." Mr. Naryshkin remained non -partisan, despite the fact that since May 2012 he was part of the governing bodies of United Russia.

“Until today, I was a non -partisan member of the faction, I decided to join the United Russia party,” said Sergey Naryshkin at the Saturday meeting of the party faction. According to him, he filed an application with one of the primary organizations in the Leningrad Region, from which he was elected to the State Duma in December last year. “I hope that the decision will be made in November,” he added. In addition, Sergei Naryshkin said that membership in the party will allow him to more actively influence the legislative activities of the State Duma. “For almost a year now, I have been guaranteed the State Duma. I have always thought and continue to believe that my main task is to establish and ensure effective work and interaction of all factions in the State Duma. I think that this year I managed to convince all the factions that my work is underway, and today's decision to join the party should help me more fruitfully to the legislative activity of the State Duma,” he said.

"Naryshkin has no choice but to join" United Russia ""

Political scientist Pavel Salin : “I would not make a sensation out of this, because Naryshkin was already connected with the party, was its supporter. Now there is a de jure that there had been de facto for a long time. Of course, this signal represents. Naryshkin simply began to look more confidently at the future of the party due to the fact that rumors about early elections to the State Duma ceased to circulate. But this is rather a technical moment. The requests for him came, probably not even from above, but from below. He thought. Now, after the results that United Russia demonstrated in the elections, she looks more confidently into the future, and Naryshkin decided to tie a certain period of her career with the party. "

Boris Gryzlov : “By working together in the Bureau of the Higher Council, I know that Sergei Evgenievich has a number of strategic proposals to increase the efficiency of party work.”

The head of the "Center for Political Technology" Igor Bunin : “I think that so far there was a certain doubt of Naryshkin: and maybe some other options, maybe something will change. And after the result that United Russia received in the regional elections, it was decided to abandon completely other options for strategies that were in the head of the Kremlin strategists. For example, a project to create a "Popular Front", two parties in power. And therefore, Naryshkin has no choice but to join "United Russia". "

How Sergei Naryshkin was called in the party

After the elections to the State Duma last December, Dmitry Medvedev, who at the time headed the list of United Russia in the elections, called on all the party leaders to receive partyakes . “Not a single leader who came to power using the party mechanism should discard the party. This is unreasonable, this is indecent. Therefore, if we talk about me, I already said this about this in the introductory word. All leaders should be inside the party, there are no doubts, there are no exceptions, you can doubt it,” he said in December 2011 at a meeting with the party’s asset.

At the party’s congress in May 2012, when Dmitry Medvedev became its chairman, Sergei Naryshkin became part of the United Russia Higher Council Bureau , but the party card did not take. “We expect that Sergey Naryshkin will join the party. It would be logical if he, as the head of the parliament, entered the governing bodies of United Russia,” said the first deputy secretary of the Presidium of the General Council of the party Sergey Zheleznyak.

Natalia Romashkova

Sergey Naryshkin will become party