RBC: Mizulina may leave the Federation Council in September

RBC: Mizulina may leave the Federation Council in September

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Senator from the Omsk region Elena Mizulina may leave the Federation Council after a single voting day on September 10. About it informed RBC with reference to sources.

According to an interlocutor close to the presidential administration, the likelihood of Mizulina leaving is high. Mizulina herself did not respond to RBC’s message. According to the law, a candidate for the post of governor must nominate three candidates for the position of senator from the region to the election commission. After the elections, the elected head of the region presents one candidate to the Federation Council.

Elena Mizulina is 68 years old. She was appointed to the post of senator from the Omsk region in 2015. First, she represented Governor Viktor Nazarov in the Federation Council, and then Alexander Burkov, who gone retire at the end of March. Vitaly Khotsenko, who previously headed the government of the DPR, is now acting as governor. Prior to that, Mizulina was a deputy of the State Duma of the sixth convocation and chairman of the committee on family, women and children.

RBC recalled that Mizulina was one of the authors of the bill adopted in 2013 to ban propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors. In the same year she suggested ban surrogacy. In 2015, she co-sponsored a bill that suggested to ban abortions in private clinics, in 2020 – amendments that included a ban on the adoption of children by transgender people. Government these changes did not support.

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