Former State Duma deputy Sokol headed the parliament of Khakassia

At the first meeting, deputies of the Supreme Council of Khakassia elected former State Duma deputy, secretary of the regional branch of United Russia Sergei Sokol as speaker. About it reported in the party’s Telegram channel.

Sokol noted that the Supreme Council, together with the executive branch of the republic, will have to work on a strategy for the socio-economic development of Khakassia. The subject of the work of industry experts in the council under the republican parliament will be measures to develop the economy, increase investment attractiveness, support for business, motherhood and childhood, attention to pensioners, the disabled, and the environment.

“It is necessary to build a balanced system of budgetary relations, transparent and understandable to municipalities. To equalize the situation with teachers’ salaries, in healthcare, in the municipalities themselves,” Sokol said.

Previously Vedomosti wrotethat Sokol can head the Legislative Assembly of Khakassia. According to a source close to United Russia, Sokol will be elected chairman at the first meeting of the Supreme Council on September 22.

On June 10, United Russia nominated Sokol as a candidate for the election of the head of Khakassia. On July 21, he was admitted to the Abakan hospital with a diagnosis of peritonitis and was operated on. On August 1, Sokol reported that he had been discharged. And on August 31, he was urgently hospitalized in the intensive care unit of the Moscow hospital named after. Vishnevsky with complications after illness. On September 2, he withdrew his candidacy from the elections due to health reasons. On September 16 he confirmedthat he will leave the State Duma to work in the republic.