
He is a person influential, he is well-known, thanks to certain successes in the field of international activity. Slutsky is not an accidental person in the party, he has been in the State Duma, in the LDPR faction, since 1999. “We don’t feel any influence from the presidential administration, and in general from any state structures, even though they are supposed to exert such influence.

“We do not feel the influence of the AP”Īt the same time, the party representative rejected the suggestion that Slutsky’s candidacy could be recommended by the presidential administration, or even “lowered from the top.”

“But since the elections are a democratic procedure, the votes of the delegates will decide everything,” the interlocutor specified.

At a meeting of the Supreme Council of the party, Slutsky confirmed his participation in the upcoming elections at the congress, as a result of which his name is guaranteed to appear on the ballot.Īnswering a question about the prospects for Slutsky to be elected as the new leader of the Liberal Democrats, party spokesman Alexander Dupin said that given such strong regional support, the current head of the parliamentary faction is considered the undisputed favorite. As Expert was told in the press service of the party, during the regional party conferences held the day before, 76 regional branches of the party officially notified the Central Office that they would like to see Leonid Slutsky among the candidates for the post of head of the LDPR.
