The head of the Kabardino-Balkaria has gone for a new five-year term
The members of the Kabardino-Balkarian parliament unanimously voted for the current head in the elections for the head of the region. Thus, Kazbek Kokov will remain in his post for another five years.
Kazbek Kokov became the head of Kabardino-Balkaria in 2019. Before that, he worked for five years as an adviser to the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation on domestic policy. The father of the current head of the region, Valery Kokov, is the first president of the republic.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin approved three candidates for the post, including, in addition to Kazbek Kokov, the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the region Ilyas Shavaev and local deputy Alexei Voitov.
Kazbek Kokov recently said that he perceives every word of Vladimir Putin as the word of his father. His grandson was named Vladimir. The politician shared this at a press conference at the TASS Kavkaz Regional Information Center.
On September 8, parliamentary elections for the head of Ingushetia took place, as a result of which the current head of the republic took the post. A similar situation developed in Stavropol Krai: Vladimir Vladimirov remained in the post of governor.
It is noteworthy that most heads of regions in the Russian Federation, including in the North Caucasus, are not elected by direct vote of the residents of the republics, but, in fact, are appointed by the president of the country through a bureaucratic procedure that imitates elections. Thus, regional legislative bodies, completely controlled by the presidential administration, vote for whoever they are told.
