Chilingarov won’t stay in Duma, oligarchs will
Nearly half of the members of the "Yedinaya Rosia" Party are not included in the party's list for the upcoming parliamentary elections.
The "Moskovski Komsomolets" reports that six of the 26 State Duma committees will not be in the next parliament. Vice-Speaker Lyubov Sliska, who has been "living" in the Duma, and Armenian MP Artur Chilingarov will bid farewell.
Chilingarov has simply been "registered" at the Duma for all five terms. The newspaper reports that whereas Siliska voluntarily rejected the offer to be on the list, there is no word about Chilingarov.
There have also been parliamentarians who have suddenly found themselves on the party's list. According to the newspaper, not finding his name on the list came as a real surprise for one of the most active deputies, first deputy chairman of the constitutional legislation committee Alexander Moskolets.
However, quite a lot of "nomadic" members of "Fair Russia" were included on the list and they have the first ten spots. The newspaper reports that in any case, the National Front won't be able to deprive "Yedinaya Rosia" of its ranking as "the party of billionaires", meaning that the representatives of Forbes magazine will stay in the Duma.
"Yedinaya Rosia" is also a "party of power". The party is on top of the list of influential "locomotives", including 51 governors, 6 deputy prime ministers, of which two are first degree, two ministers and the chief of staff of the president.
The party's list ends with Yelena Lapshina from the Ivanovo region who was crying out for Putin to run for the third time as president during the party's assembly in 2007.
