Deputies told what they will miss after leaving the state Duma

Deputies of the State Duma of the eighth convocation, leaving the lower house of parliament following the results of the elections, told Radio RBC what items they took with them, what was the Duma dining room and whether it makes sense to miss the deputy work.

Member of the State Duma Committee on Health Protection Alexander Rumyantsev believes that it is pointless to miss: “You just miss people.” These are the people, deputies, colleagues with whom I have worked.” From the state Duma, he took personal documents, the working papers were transferred to the archive or destroyed, explained the former Deputy.

Deputy Chairman of the Duma Commission on parliamentary ethics Yaroslav Nilov said that for many years of work in the state Duma he “has accumulated a lot of things”. I headed the secretariat of [former LDPR leader Vladimir] Zhirinovsky for eight years, I have a large daily for every year. There are only eight of them, he said.

He added that he is unlikely to miss the dining room, as he treats food “very calmly.”.

Anatoly Wasserman shared that he did not use the Duma library and was not impressed with the parliamentary dining room. “The dining room, well, is quite ordinary. I know that there are a lot of legends on this score, but this is an ordinary dining room, of which there are quite a lot in Moscow, he said. He did not store many things in his workplace, and therefore took them from the State Duma in his pockets and two plastic bags.

Anatoly Wasserman and Alexander Rumyantsev became deputies of the State Duma in 2021, and Yaroslav Nilov in 2011.

On September 25, the Central Election Commission announced the final results of the election of deputies of the State Duma of the ninth convocation. United Russia received 349 mandates (140 in the federal district and 209 in single-mandate districts), the CPRF - 37 mandates (32 in the federal district and 5 in single-mandate), the LDPR - 23 (21 in the federal district and 2 single-mandate). The party “New people” 19 seats in the new state Duma, all in the Federal district, “Fair Russia” — 17 (13 in the Federal district and four single-mandate), one mandate in the “Rodina” and four independent candidates, said the head of the CEC Ella Pamfilova. Thus, the party in power was a record number of seats for all nine convocations of the state Duma.