The Federation Council Committee supported the candidacy of Zorkin for the post of Chairman of the Constitutional Court

The Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building supported the reappointment of Valery Zorkin to the post of Chairman of the Constitutional Court for another term.

“Heaven decreed that I live, I’m happy, my head is still working,” Zorkin said after the decision was made by the committee. The question of his reassignment will be considered by the Federation Council at a plenary meeting later on Monday, September 25.

September 22, Russian President Vladimir Putin contributed Zorkin’s candidacy for appointment to a new term. In addition, the head of state proposed appointing Mikhail Lobov, a former Russian judge at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), as a judge of the Constitutional Court. Previously Vedomosti wrotethat one of the oldest members of the Constitutional Court, Gadis Gadzhiev, will resign due to reaching the age limit of 70 years.

Zorkin is 80 years old, he was born on February 18, 1943. In 2000, he was recognized as an Honored Lawyer of Russia. He is a holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland. In February 2023 Putin signed decree awarding Zorkin the Order of the Holy Apostle Andrew the First-Called “for outstanding services to the Fatherland and many years of fruitful government activity.”

In 1991, he became the first head of the newly formed Constitutional Court, but after the events of September – October 1993, when the court sided with the Supreme Council in the confrontation with the Kremlin, Zorkin worked as an ordinary judge. In 2003, he returned to the post of chairman of the Constitutional Court. The previous time, Zorkin was re-elected to this position on the proposal of the president in January 2018.