Komi head Sergei Gaplykov resigned

The head of Komi Sergey Gaplykov resigned, he stated this in his video message.

"The appeal was sent to the president. It was accepted after long thought, I consider him the only true one," Gaplikov said. He thanked Vladimir Putin and residents of the republic.

The temporarily acting head of the Komi Republic was appointed Deputy Minister of Health Vladimir Uyba.

In September 2015, Putin appointed Gaplikov the temporarily acting head of the Komi. On September 18, 2016, he was elected to this position in the governor's election.

In Komi there is a difficult situation with the spread of coronavirus. The region confirms 56 cases of disease, of which 55 are in the hospital of the Ezhvinsky district.

The head of the Komi Sergey Gaplykov, together with the governor of the Arkhangelsk region in the summer of 2019, was in the last place in the group of the least stable governors in the Mingchenko Consulting rating . The study states that the leaders of these regions "failed to stop socio-political risks and only strengthened in the zone of high risk of resignation."

The election of the governor in Komi should be held in 2021.

An hour earlier, the governor of the Arachingel region Igor Orlov announced about the resignation.

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