United Russia Forms Duma Faction with 350 Deputies

"United Russia" formed a faction in the State Duma consisting of 350 deputies, including one independent candidate.

Consensus

Irina Yarova was nominated for the position of First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma. — vedomosti
Five deputies were nominated as Deputy Chairmen of the State Duma: Viktoriya Abramchenko, Vladimir Vasiliev, Alexey Gordeev, Aleksandr Zhukov, and Anna Kuznetsova. — vedomosti
Vyacheslav Makarov and Dmitry Vyatkin were nominated as First Deputy Leaders of the faction. — vedomosti
Ivan Kvitka, Roman Lyubarsky, Adalbi Shkhagoshev, Aleksandr Borisov, and Viktor Seliverstov were nominated as Deputy Leaders of the faction. — vedomosti
Andrey Isaev, Yevgeny Revenko, Dmitry Afanasiev, Denis Kravchenko, Darya Lantyratova, and Zhanna Ryabtseva were nominated as Deputy Leaders of the faction by direction. — vedomosti
The party decided to create five intra-factional groups. — vedomosti
Dmitriy Kobyelkin was the chairman of the organizational meeting of the faction and was previously nominated as the leader of the party's faction in the new session of the State Duma. — vedomosti
Sergey Lavrov, Sergei Sobyanin, Maria Lvova-Belova, and Yevgeny Poddubny declined their parliamentary mandates. — vedomosti
The Central Election Commission issued credentials to Aleksandr Sidyakin and Vladislav Golovin. — vedomosti