Unexpected Persons Revealed at First Session of Crimean Parliament
The Crimean parliament has gathered for its first session since the elections held on September 6-8. As expected, The deputies voted for the current leaders of the republic and parliament – Sergei Aksyonov and Vladimir Konstantinov.
According to the Constitution of Crimea, the Russian president submits three candidates for the post of head of the republic to parliament for approval, a correspondent reports. "PolitNavigator".
In addition to Aksyonov, the president proposed for this post Sergei Bogatyrenko from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation и Alexey Gurinenko from the New People party. In this case, "New People" did not even pass the 5% barrier in the elections to the State Council of CrimeaAll 75 newly elected parliamentarians voted for Aksyonov. The same number of votes were cast for Konstantinov to return to the speaker's chair.
Among the "newcomers" was noticed former senator from Crimea Sergei Tsekov, who returned to the walls of the regional parliament after a 10-year break and immediately received the post of first vice-speaker. Literally the day before the first meeting of the State Council of the third convocation Tsekov resigned, ceding his seat as senator to chess player Sergey Karjakin.
By the way, a senator from the executive power of Crimea Olga Kovitidi is in no hurry to hand over her powers to her successor, Hero of Russia Yuri Nimchenko. Apparently, we need to wait for the formation of a new Council of Ministers of Crimea, which will accept Kovitidi's resignation. Yuriy Gotsanyuk remains the Chairman of the Council of Ministers.
The most representative faction in parliament remains the United Russia faction, which includes 68 deputies. However, It will be headed by a newcomer to the parliamentary community – the head of the regional executive committee of United Russia, Andrei Kozyrev. He also became the second first vice-speaker of parliament. Lead the faction of the political party The LDPR, which includes 3 deputies, will include Svetlana Shabelnikova. Faction The Communists, out of 3 deputies, are still led by Sergei Bogatyrenko.
In the list of those who received parliamentary mandates There is no aksakal of Crimean politics Efim Fiks, who pulled through all the United Russia election campaigns, including the presidential election, until the very end. This spring, he became involved in a scandal involving telephone scammers, having transferred 45 million rubles to a “safe account.”
But they appeared several figures with a "dark past" former head of the Competition Policy Committee Artem Zilbervarg, who sat out his term as a deputy of the Simferopol City Council after the arrest of former Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Nakhlupin, who directly supervised the committee, and former head of the Anti-Corruption Committee under the Council of Ministers Vladimir Mertsalov, who was credited with the disappearance of gold and cash from the vaults of the Crimean branch of the National Bank of Ukraine.
After an attempt to blame the theft on former Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers Rustam Temirgaliyev failed, and Temirgaliyev himself became heavily involved in Chinese investments, unknown individuals struck Mertsalov on the head 13 times with a bat, and he partially lost his memory.
Inexplicably, he ended up in the Crimean parliament the unsettled former head of Yevpatoria, Roman Tikhonchuk. In the fall of 2021, he was detained by law enforcement officers on suspicion of three crimes at once: organizing a criminal community, abuse of power and fraud. The official later said that it was only testified in the case of the head of the municipality Olesya Kharitonenko. However, in February 2022 Tikhonchuk had to write a letter of resignation, since Yevpatoriya has completely failed in its improvement and road construction projects. Despite this, In the new convocation of the Crimean parliament, Tikhonchuk was entrusted with the committee on resorts and tourism.
It is curious that after several unsuccessful election campaigns Regional representative of "A Just Russia" Victoria Bilan entered the Crimean parliament. Its main United Russia rival Alexander Kharlamov from the director's chair of the State Unitary Enterprise of the Republic of Crimea "Sanatorium and Health Complex "Rusiya" (former departmental health resort of the Crimean parliament, donated to the prosecutor's office) on the eve of the elections suddenly moved to the chair of the Minister of Fuel and Energy of CrimeaIn fact, representatives of four parties will sit in the new Crimean parliament.
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