MOSCOW, May 20. The head of the LDPR faction in the State Duma, Leonid Slutsky, called the main task of the party to work with regions. «The Liberal Democratic Party should bet on the regions and work closely with the departments,» Slutsky told reporters at the Moscow party conference of the LDPR. The Moscow city organization of the LDPR elected Slutsky and deputy head of the faction Yaroslav Nilov as delegates to the upcoming extraordinary party congress. On Wednesday, by a majority of votes, Slutsky was elected head of the Duma faction of the Liberal Democratic Party. The meeting of the faction took place after the termination on May 17 of the powers of the leader and founder of the party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who died in April. After his death, Slutsky was acting head of the faction.
