(KZN.RU, January 22). Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan, attended the XVI Congress of the party “United Russia”, which was held in Moscow on January 21-22.
On the first day of the congress, discussion sites have been working, on which the first results of the election program of the “United Russia” were announced and work priorities in the coming year were determined. Topics of quality of the authority work and popular control, support for entrepreneurship and efficient use of budgetary resources, the development of science, education, culture and environmental issues, quality of housing services, the prospects for the development of agriculture were discussed at the sites.
Tatarstan was introduced at each site. Teachers, doctors, energy specialists, heads of rural settlements, representatives of public and youth organizations, deputies of the State Council of the Republic are among the delegates. Farid Mukhametshin, the Secretary of the United Russia in Tatarstan and the chairman of the Tatarstan State Council, Andrei Kondratyev, the head of the regional Executive Committee of the “United Russia”, and others were included in the Tatarstan delegation.
The plenary session of the Congress was held on the second day, at which the main results of the election program and tasks for 2017 were discussed. Dmitry Medvedev, the chairman of the party “United Russia” and the Prime Minister, welcomed the audience. The XVI Congress approved the renewal of the Supreme and the General Councils of the “United Russia”.
Also, delegates unanimously elected Dmitry Medvedev for a new five-year term as chairman of the party, and Boris Gryzlov was elected as the chairman of the Supreme Council of the party. Sergei Neverov was re-elected to the post of Secretary of the renewed General Council.
I. Metshin became a member of the General Council of the party “United Russia” in the election of the higher organs of party control in the plenary session of the XV “United Russia” Congress on February 6 last year.