NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Feb 11 The head of Mari El, Alexander Evstifeev, continues to work as usual, they said RIA Novosti in the press service of the head of the region. So they commented on RBC's message that Evstifeev wants to resign and the likelihood of his resignation, according to the sources of the publication, «is approaching one hundred percent.» «Nothing has changed since the last rumors. < ;…> Alexander Alexandrovich is at his workplace and continues his work as responsibly as before,» the press service said. In particular, the construction of social institutions continues in the republic, national projects and an individual social -economic development, all measures are being taken to combat COVID-19: another ten million rubles were allocated to the regional Ministry of Health for the purchase of rapid tests.
January 26, 10:26The office of the Kirov governor refused to comment on the rumors about his resignation»Also this week, the head of Mari El, Alexander Evstifeev, indexed several types of social payments to regional beneficiaries by 25 percent, some of which have not been indexed since 2013″ , — the press service added. Vedomosti already wrote about the possible resignation of the head of Mari El at the end of January: according to sources, Evstifeev intends to leave the post, but the presidential administration prefers that he stay. Then the press service of the head of the republic stated that there were no prerequisites for such rumors. Evstifeev has been the head of Mari El since 2017 — in April he was appointed acting head of the republic after the departure of Leonid Markelov, and in September he won the election. Prior to that, he worked as chairman of the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region.
