State Assembly of the Mari El Republic

The State Assembly of Mari El (Meadow Mari: Кугыжаныш Погын, Kugyžanyš Pogyn, Russian: Государственное Собрание Республики Марий Эл) is the legislature of that republic. It succeeded the Supreme Council and comprises 52 deputies elected for a period of five years. Twenty-six of them are elected from single-member constituencies from an equal number of voters, while twenty-six are elected on basis of one deputy from each district and republican city.[1]

State Assembly of the Mari El Republic

Государственное Собрание Республики Марий Эл
7th legislature
Type
Type
Leadership
Chairman
Anatoly Smirnov, United Russia
Structure
Seats52
Political groups
  United Russia (35)

  Communist Party (9)
  LDPR (3)
  Fair Russia (3)

  Independent (2)
Elections
Mixed
Last election
8 September 2019
Website
parliament.mari.ru

The State Assembly approves ministers, who are nominated by the republic's President.[2]

The presiding officer is the Chairman of the State Assembly.

Chairmen of the Supreme Council

Name Period
Grigory Posibeyev April 26, 1990 – August 21, 1990
Vladimir Zotin August 22, 1990 – December 24, 1991
Yury Minakov December 24, 1991 – December 13, 1993

Chairmen of the State Assembly

Name Period
Anatoly Smirnov January 6, 1994 – October 6, 1996
Mikhail Zhukov November 6, 1996 – October 8, 2000
Yury Minakov October 27, 2000 – October 10, 2004
November 4, 2004 – October 11, 2009
October 28, 2009 – September 14, 2014
October 2, 2014Incumbent

References

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