TASS informs about this with reference to the regional election commission.
It is noted that Nikitin headed the regional list of the United Russia party in the elections to the regional Duma.
“In connection with the refusal of Alexander Valerievich Nikitin from the mandate of a deputy of the Tambov Regional Duma of the seventh convocation, it was decided to transfer his mandate to a registered candidate for deputy of the Tambov Regional Duma, Oleg Olegovich Ivanov, nominated by the United Russia party.
The corresponding decision was made today at a meeting of the election commission of the Tambov region, ”the message says.
Earlier it was reported that the governor of the Novgorod region, Andrei Nikitin, who headed the combined territorial group for the Novgorod and Vologda regions of the federal list of candidates of the United Russia party in the elections to the State Duma, will continue to work in his post, and his mandate will pass to the next candidate on the list.