New Duma elects Volodin Committees and mandates

Sep 30

Anatoly Lazarev reports the ninth Duma's first plenary session, election of Vyacheslav Volodin for a third consecutive speaker term with over ninety percent support, and approval of leadership and thirty-four committees. He distinguishes earlier party and presidential endorsements from today's vote. New deputies discuss youth, voters and soldiers' families; Irina Kuksenkova outlines security and later peacetime needs in Makiivka. Volodin says forty-eight deputies served in the military operation; party leaders discuss support and legislative work. The report gives United Russia 350 seats and New People twenty, and committee chairs distributed twenty to United Russia, five to the Communists and three each to the other factions. These are this report's figures, without reconciling earlier bulletins' counts. Organizational decisions are reported completed; policy ambitions remain proposals.

Russia's ninth State Duma holds its first plenary session in Moscow. Putin addresses deputies; the chamber elects Vyacheslav Volodin speaker for a third consecutive term and approves leadership and thirty-four committees. Vremya reports over ninety-percent support for Volodin, United Russia's 350 seats and New People's twenty seats. These source figures and interpretations are retained without reconciling earlier bulletins' totals. This is the completed sitting and organizational vote, distinct from party nominations and endorsements on September 24, 28 and 29.