Former State Duma deputy and member of the Central Election Commission Gennady Raikov died

Former State Duma deputy and member of the Central Election Commission Gennady Raikov died at the age of 84. State Duma deputy, former deputy chairman of the Central Election Commission Leonid Ivlev said this. Raikov was a deputy of the State Duma of the II, III and IV convocations, and was the chairman of the Central Committee of the People’s Party of Russia in 2001-2004.

Raikov was born in 1939 in Khabarovsk. But his professional biography is connected with Tyumen, where he moved in 1977. He worked at the Tyumen Engine-Building Association. In 1990, he headed the Tyumen City Council of People’s Deputies, and from 1991 to 1993 he was the head of the Tyumen administration.

Raikov was elected to the State Duma in 1995 in the Tyumen single-mandate constituency. He was a member of the deputy group “Russian Regions”. In 1999, he was again elected to the State Duma, where he headed the “People’s Deputy” deputy group, which included many single-mandate deputies. Later, on the basis of this group, a movement was created, which in 2001 became the People’s Party of Russia. Raikov became the leader of this party. In 2003, the People’s Party did not enter the Duma, and its single-mandate deputies joined the United Russia faction, including Raikov himself. Raikov was replaced as leader of the People’s Party by Gennady Gudkov (recognized by the Ministry of Justice as a foreign agent).

In 2007, Raikov became a member of the Central Election Commission from United Russia, and in 2011 he became chairman of the board of directors of the Federal Center for Informatization under the Central Election Commission. After Ella Pamfilova headed the Central Election Commission, the position held by Raikov was abolished in 2017.