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Marat Safin decided to surrender his mandate as a State Duma deputy
Tennis player Marat Safin has decided to resign his mandate as a State Duma deputy, RBC reports, citing sources in the United Russia faction and in the parliament apparatus.
The corresponding letter addressed to Vyacheslav Volodin "is in the secretariat" of the speaker of the State Duma, said one of the interlocutors of the publication.
According to RBC, the decision is due to the inability to combine activities in international sports organizations with the work of a deputy.
“He told me more than once that he was thinking about this [resignation]. Work in the seventh convocation of the State Duma, according to Safin, is different and requires more focus on it, ”said [First Deputy Chairman of the United Russia faction Adalbi] Shkhagoshev about the reasons for Safin’s decision.
- Marat Safin is one of the most famous Russian tennis players. In 2009, he ended his career, and in 2011 he became a State Duma deputy from United Russia. In 2016, he was elected to the new composition of the lower house of parliament.
- For six and a half years of work in the State Duma, Safin participated in the introduction of 20 bills , including control over NGOs that refuse to register as "foreign agents", and the introduction of an article on the rehabilitation of Nazism into the Criminal Code . In all cases, he was one of several sponsors of the bill.