“United Russia” will demand from delegates and guests of its congress QR-codes of vaccination
United Russia will hold the congress on December 4 in a COVID-free regime – those who are not vaccinated will not be allowed to attend. Two interlocutors in the party told Vedomosti about this. The decision was taken at the end of October at the official presidium of the general council. According to an interlocutor in the party, the congress will be allowed only if there is a QR code of vaccination or a QR code of a recent illness, a mark of which is in the UMIAS. In addition, congress delegates, guests and media representatives will take a PCR test. According to one of the interlocutors in the party, this request came from Rospotrebnadzor.
Representatives of United Russia and Rospotrebnadzor declined to comment.
Formally, this will be the third stage of the United Russia congress, the first two have already passed before the elections of the State Duma deputies – in June and August. At the first and second stages of the congress, the congress participants were only required to pass the PCR test, and QR codes were not required. The party initially nominated 650 delegates to take part in the congress, but about 400 people came to the second stage of the congress in August. Then the number of participants in the congress was reduced due to the worsening epidemiological situation.
In November, QR codes became mandatory for visiting many local places in Moscow: concert, entertainment, cultural, entertainment, sports and other events with more than 500 people at the same time. The requirement will also apply to the delegates of the congress, said the party interlocutor. But the overwhelming majority of 650 delegates were vaccinated, some were ill, he is. The interlocutor close to the party is sure that United Russia will not have problems with a quorum because of the new requirement. Anton Timchenko, partner of the T&M consulting bureau, notes that according to the charter of United Russia, it can be excluded from it for non-compliance with the decisions of its governing bodies. The expulsion from the party also means the termination of the powers of the delegate to the congress. But is the theoretical possibility of such measures likely to affect the quorum, added Timchenko.
On December 4, United Russia members plan to sum up the results of the election campaign for the elections of the State Duma deputies. The constitutional majority party in the lower house of parliament – 324 mandates. “Vedomosti” previously wrote with reference to sources that at the congress there was rotation in the bodies of the “political” leadership of the party – the supreme and general councils. The possibility of changing the structure of the party’s governing bodies is being discussed, says one of the interlocutors of Vedomosti. According to him, the task is to formalize the leaders of the party list in the leadership of the party, possibly in the bureau of the supreme council of the party of the party council (chairman of the council is Boris Gryzlov).
Measures to combat the pandemic in their regions are being implemented by the governors operating the United Russia branch, party volunteers are working, and the United Russia Duma faction ensures the implementation of the necessary legislation, lists the head of the Civil Society Development Fund Konstantin Kostin. The party “personifies state policy” in the fight against the pandemic.