Governor of the Ivanovo region Mikhail Men resigned

President Vladimir Putin resigned the governor of the Ivanovo region Mikhail me ahead of schedule, the Kremlin website reports. The presidential decree states that the head of the region filed an application for care of his own free will. The acting governor was appointed Pavel Konkov, the first deputy chairman of the regional administration, which oversaw the economic bloc.

Mikhail menu is 52 years old. He led the Ivanovo region since December 2005, before that for three years he was deputy mayor of Moscow, and from 1999 to 2002. He held the post of vice-governor of the Moscow region. In the spring of 2012, I was called among the possible candidates for the successors of the Governor of the Moscow Region Gromov, but as a result, the region was headed by Sergey Shoigu.

On October 3, Oleg Rakitov, a press secretary of the Ivanovo Region Government, officially refuted rumors in the media about the governor’s resignation. Then the possibility of an ambulance resignation of me, his transition to the regional Duma and then his appointment by a senator from the Legislation of the Ivanovo Region was discussed. "At the moment, we refute the information in the publication, we do not confirm that the governor is going to senators," Rakitov said then.

Rumors then appeared after early departure from the senator of the Senator from the Ivanovo region Sergey Pakhomov, who was approved only in mid -September. Pakhomov told RIA Novosti that he decided to go to work in state executive bodies. I have not yet appointed a new Senator Obdum. In the regional Duma itself, a place was also freed after the departure of one of the deputies. The regional media then assumed that the governor was released.