Kobyelkin elected head of United Russia faction

Dmitry Kobylink has been elected head of the 'United Russia' faction in the State Duma.

Consensus

Dmitry Kobylkin was elected head of the UnitedRussia faction in the State Duma on September 29.
The decision to appoint Kobylkin was made by the United Russia faction on September 29.
Several regional governors resigned their parliamentary mandates on September 29.
The Central Election Commission decided to transfer vacant mandates to candidates from the federal list of United Russia.
The structure of the United Russia faction in the State Dума was previously approved unanimously by the party's Bureau of the Supreme Council and General Council.
Dmitry Medvedev proposed the candidates for faction leadership at a joint meeting of the Bureau of the Supreme Council and the General Council.

The governors of Sverdlovsk, Orenburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Kaluga, Belgorod, and Kursk regions, as well as the leaders of Tatarstan, Crimea, and Sevastopol, resigned their mandates. — vesti
Additional regional leaders from regions such as Yablovo, Irkutsk, Krasnoyarsk, Kemerovo, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Tambov, Tver, Bryansk, Tula, Pskov, Murmansk, and Kaliningrad also did not accept their mandates. — vesti
The elections for the 9th convocation of the State Duma were held from September 18 to 20. — vesti
Vyacheslav Makarov was elected first deputy head of the faction for organizational work. — interfax
Dmitry Vyatkin was elected first deputy head of the faction for legislative activity. — interfax
Ivan Kvitka, Roman Lyubarsky, Adalbi Shkhagoshov, Alexander Borisov, and Viktor Seliverstov were elected as deputies of the faction as heads of intra-factional groups. — interfax
Dmitry Afanasyev, Denis Kravchenko, Andrey Isaev, Yevgeny Revenko, Zhanna Ryabtseva, and Darya Lantyratova were elected as deputies of the faction for directions. — interfax