Vice-Governor of Primorye elected to the Legislative Assembly
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In the by-election of the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Primorye in district No. 21, the candidate from United Russia, Vice-Governor for Domestic Policy Anton Voloshko, won. By data Regional Election Commission, he received 68.68% of the votes of voters who took part in the elections.
The turnout was 30.03%. Olga Sidorenko, who took second place, was significantly behind the Communist Party of the Russian Federation – 12.57%.
Additional elections in district No. 21 were called after the regional parliament early terminated the parliamentary powers of Dmitry Nazarets, a member of the United Russia faction, on July 26. How reported at a meeting of the Legislative Assembly, the Chairman of the Committee on Rules and Deputy Ethics, Vsevolod Romanov, since July 2022, Mr. Nazarets has been outside Russia and has systematically not performed the duties of a deputy, not taking part in sessions.
43-year-old Anton Voloshko is a long-time member of the team of Primorye Governor Oleg Kozhemyako. He worked as the first deputy governor of the Sakhalin region in 2017–2018, when Mr. Kozhemyako was the head of the region. After the latter was elected governor of Primorye in 2018, Anton Voloshko began to answer for the internal policy of the region.
It is Mr. Voloshko who Kommersant sources in the government and legislative assembly of the region are tipping for the position of Speaker of the Primorye Parliament. It is vacant after Oleg Kozhemyako, who was elected in September of this year to the post of governor of the Primorsky Territory for a second term, as Kommersant predicted, signed resolution on granting the powers of a representative from the regional executive branch in the Federation Council to Alexander Rolik, who previously held the post of chairman of the regional legislative assembly.
“Everything is happening according to plan. Voloshko will become speaker,” a member of the United Russia faction, who wished to remain anonymous, told Kommersant.
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