MOSCOW, May 30. United Russia Party “nominated former Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko for preliminary electronic voting to participate in by-elections to the State Duma; the corresponding decision was made at a meeting of the presidium of the party’s General Council.
“The Presidium of the General Council has the right, provided for by the internal documents of the party, to send candidates on its own behalf to participate in the preliminary voting at any level of elections,” Turchak said at a meeting of the Presidium.
He put to a vote the question of nominating Abramchenko in the 152nd southern single-mandate electoral district of the Rostov region.
“The decision has been made,” he concluded based on the voting results.