Leonid Levin headed the Information Committee of the State Duma – the Russian Newspaper

Leonid Levin headed the Information Committee of the State Duma – the Russian Newspaper

The State Duma Alexei Mitrofanov found a replacement, which was released on Tuesday as chairman of the Chamber of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Information Technology and Communications.

This resignation was predictable. And somehow, even strange that the Duma hesitated with the decision. June 10 this year Mitrofanov was stripped of his parliamentary immunity on the proposal of the Prosecutor General in connection with the fraud case. And “virtually disappeared”: the Duma did not appear, although the Duma mandate remained with him, the Committee did not direct. “While abroad”, – claimed knowledgeable people on Hunter Series. However, MPs of the Communist Party such a situation did not suit. And they first received a request to the Speaker of the lower house of Sergei Naryshkin over a long absence in his office committee chairman. And then prepared a draft resolution for which voted 440 deputies out of 450 Those who are against it, was not found.

The new head of information committee on Friday was

appointed Leonid Levin (427 – “for”), a former still the first deputy chairman of the committee. Just as Mitrofanov, he in the sixth convocation of the Duma got on the list of “Fair Russia”, as well as the former head of the committee, broke with the native fraction of views on fundamental laws. Together, they tried to organize something like an independent parliamentary group is not defined by the rules. But ultimately, both remained in the fraction.

But Levin was not the only candidate for the presidency of the committee. LDPR faction insisted on alternative elections, and at the beginning of the plenary session invited the head of the committee in his deputy Vadim Dengina, one of the authors and promoters of a bill to limit foreign participation in the Russian media. However, until the alternative vote is not reached. Liberal Democrats withdrew its proposal after it became known how many deputies supported Leonid Levin.