This congress is
expected to launch the process of preparations for the federal parliamentary
elections.
MOSCOW, November 23.
/TASS/. The ruling United Russia party has opened its 19th congress in Moscow
to focus on electoral issues ahead of the elections to the national legislature
in 2021.
About 2,000 delegates
are attending the party forum that is taking place at the VDNKh (All-Russian
Exhibition Center) in Moscow. The congress will discuss the party’s electoral
campaigns, including preparations for the elections to the State Duma (the
lower house of Russia’s parliament) in 2021. The United Russia party congress
is expected to launch the process of preparations for the federal parliamentary
elections.
The congress started
its work with a joint session of the party’s governing bodies: the Supreme and
General Councils. This session will be followed by a plenary meeting, at which
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister, Chairman of the United
Russia Party Dmitry Medvedev will deliver speeches.
The congress will
also announce establishing six working groups within the party’s General
Council, introduce a new format of the work of the United Russia’s public
reception offices and set up the party’s human rights center. The congress’s
program stipulates holding an annual rotation of the Supreme and General
Councils.
Source: ITAR-TASS
23-11-2019
