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Gennady Zyuganov continues to head the Communist Party faction in the new convocation of the State Duma.
Politician Gennady Zyuganov was unanimously elected head of the Communist Party faction in the State Duma in the new convocation. This was reported to TASS by the first deputy chairman of the party's Central Committee, Yuri Afonin.
He noted that deputy Ivan Melnikov had been nominated for the post of first deputy chairman of the Duma.
“At a meeting of the Communist Party faction in the State Duma, G. A. Zyuganov was elected head of the faction. N. V. Kolomeytsev was elected first deputy head of the Communist Party faction <...> All decisions were made unanimously,” Afonin emphasized.
Before this, Russian President Vladimir Putin mocked Zyuganov’s wish to State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin to take “left-hand drive.”

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