Head of Mari El
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Head of the Mari El Republic | |
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Type | |
Appointer | Direct elections |
Term length | 5 years; |
Formation | 24 December 1991 |
First holder | Vladislav Zotin |
Website | Official website |
The Head of the Republic of Mari El (formerly President of Mari El Republic) is the highest executive position in the
Russian Federation
.
The first President of Mari El Republic was
Mari ASSR before it was succeeded by the Mari El Republic. The status and powers of the President were determined by Chapter 4 of the Constitution of the Mari El Republic. In December 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a law that forbade calling the heads of federal subjects as "president", and must bring their constitutions or statutes in conformity with the law before 1 January 2015. The position of President of Mari El Republic was renamed to Head (Vuylatyshyzhe in Mari
) in June 2011.
Since 10 May 2022 the Head of the Mari El Republic is Yury Zaitsev.[1]
List of Heads of the Mari El Republic
No. | Portrait | Name (born–died) |
Term of office | Political party | Elected | Ref. | |||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||
1 | Vladislav Zotin (born 1942) |
24 December 1991 | 5 January 1997 | 5 years, 12 days | Communist Party | ||||
2 | Vyacheslav Kislitsyn (born 1948) |
5 January 1997 | 14 January 2001 | 4 years, 9 days | Communist Party | ||||
3 | Leonid Markelov (born 1963) |
14 January 2001 | 6 April 2017 | 16 years, 82 days | Liberal Democratic Party | ||||
United Russia | |||||||||
– | Alexander Yevstifeyev (born 1958) |
6 April 2017 | 21 September 2017 | 168 days | United Russia | –[a] | |||
4 | 21 September 2017 | 10 May 2022 | 4 years, 231 days | 2017 | |||||
– | Yury Zaitsev (born 1970) |
10 May 2022 | 23 September 2022 | 136 days | United Russia | –[a] | |||
5 | 23 September 2022 | Incumbent | 1 year, 217 days |
Elections
The latest election for the office was held on 10 September 2017
Candidates | Party | Votes | % | |
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Alexander Yevstifeyev | United Russia | 208,855 | 88.27 | |
Albert Fyodorov | Liberal Democratic Party | 11,982 | 5.06 | |
Natalia Glushenko | A Just Russia |
8,232 | 3.48 | |
Valentina Zlobina | Party of Pensioners | 4,159 | 1.76 | |
Source: Сводная таблица результатов выборов |
Note
References
- ^ Gorshkova, Elena (10 May 2022). "Acting governor appointed in protest region of Russia". URA (in Russian). Retrieved 10 May 2022.