The State Duma began work on questions before the meeting with Putin

In February, Vladimir Putin will meet with the leaders of the State Duma factions, Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov said on January 25. He did not name a specific date. According to Peskov, Putin met with State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin late last night. They discussed the work plans and priorities of the parliament for 2023.

Meetings with the leadership of the factions took place even during the pandemic, said Deputy Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, State Duma deputy Dmitry Novikov. He recalled that in early January, Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov informed about the preparation of this event, emphasizing its importance. According to him, it is necessary to sum up the results of 2022 – one “of the most difficult and responsible”, adding that 2023 “is of a fundamental nature.”

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation has already partially discussed what topics to submit for a meeting with the president, this process is now ongoing “at the level of the party leadership,” says Novikov. He is confident that in addition to the general meeting with the heads of the five factions, by additional agreement, Zyuganov will be able to talk to the president face to face. Such a practice existed and it continues, the communist noted.

“I can’t tell you anything yet. [о подготовке встречи]”, – Andrey Isaev, deputy chairman of the United Russia faction, told Vedomosti, noting that “working discussions” are also underway in the party. The topics are determined by the president and leaders of deputy associations, Dmitry Gusev, first deputy head of the Just Russia faction, emphasized.

Representatives of the factions interviewed by Vedomosti found it difficult to say whether the meeting could take place close to February 24, the date of the start of the special military operation in 2022. stage,” says Novikov. But topics related to NWO will inevitably be discussed, he is sure.

Assistance to the mobilized, their families, those who returned from the front are mandatory questions at a meeting with the president, Gusev said. The second block is demography as a “cornerstone”, an increase in the birth rate, maternal wages, he lists (Putin in December instructed the government in early 2023 to prepare measures to increase the birth rate). The third is economics and entrepreneurship. “How can we make sure that we can be an independent state, regardless of any sanctions,” Gusev said.

As a rule, A Just Russia prepares a memorandum for the head of the faction, Sergei Mironov, listing issues that deputies cannot resolve through ministries, mainly in those areas for which they are responsible in their committees, says another deputy chairman of the faction, Elena Drapeko . “We are writing to Mironov asking him to address the president. I don’t know what he will choose from this,” she stressed. Drapeko herself will propose to solve the problem of the “construction lobby”, which, according to her, hinders the adoption of laws on the protection of cultural heritage.

The LDPR will form its proposals for the agenda based on the appeals received from voters, Yaroslav Nilov, deputy chairman of the LDPR faction, told Vedomosti. First of all, they are connected with the support of certain categories of citizens, the speedy integration into the legal environment of new regions and preferences for them in the form of a special economic zone, the protection of the rights of mobilized citizens, support for their families, support for agricultural producers, he noted. Also, the Liberal Democratic Party plans to present its ideas for the introduction of “people’s mortgage” at a meeting with the president – preferential loans not only for individual citizens, but for all residents of Russia.

Vedomosti sent a request to the press service of the New People.

In 2022, Putin met with the heads of the Duma factions and the leadership of the State Duma on July 7, towards the end of the spring session of parliament. He thanked the deputies for the support of the residents of Donbass and operational work in the conditions that have developed after the start of the NWO in Ukraine.