RBC: nine senators will leave their posts

After the September regional elections, at least nine senators will leave the Federation Council. writes about this RBC with reference to one of the senators and two sources in the apparatus of the Federation Council. In total, after September 8, there will be grounds for replacing 31 senators, but some will be reappointed for a new term, while for others the issue has not yet been resolved.

Among the outgoing senators is the representative of the State Assembly of Mari El Natalia Dementieva. former head of the defense committee Viktor Ozerov (Khabarovsk Territory), member of the committee on environmental management Ildus Akhmetzyanov (Tatarstan), member of the defense committee Oksana Buriko (Supreme Khural of the Republic of Tyva), representative of the committee on regional policy Ekaterina Lakhova (Bryansk Regional Duma). All of them did not apply for the United Russia primaries. In most regions, preliminary party voting ended on May 26. According to the law, in order to become a senator from the legislature, you must first be elected to the regional parliament, which delegates to the Federation Council.

According to the interlocutors of RBC, the senator from the capital will also leave the upper house - the chairman of the committee on science Zinaida Dragunkina (Moscow City Duma) and member of the committee on international affairs Olga Timofeeva (Sevastopol).

Their representatives will be replaced by at least twin heads of regions. Acting Kurgan Region Vadim Shumkov, in case of victory in the elections, will not nominate Deputy Chairman of the Budget Committee Elena Perminova to the Federation Council, and the head of the Chelyabinsk Region Alexei Teksler will recall Irina Gekht, nominated by his predecessor, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Agrarian Policy.