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The head of Mari El, Alexander Evstifeev, will not run for a second term because of his personal unwillingness to do this work. It is reported by RBC with reference to four people familiar with the discussion of the issue of the source.
“He categorically does not want (to continue working as a governor),” one of the sources said.
Another interlocutor added that the probability of Yevstifeev’s resignation “is approaching 100%.”
Alexander Evstifeev is 63 years old. Among other things, he served as deputy presidential representative in the Volga Federal District, senator from the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, chairman of the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal, professor at the Department of International Private Law of the Saratov State Academy, chairman of the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region.
Meanwhile, the former governor of Mari El, Leonid Markelov, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for corruption. He will have to pay a fine of 235 million rubles.
Markelov has been the head of the region since 2001. In 2017, after resigning at his own request, he was detained and charged with taking a bribe (Article 290 of the Criminal Code), and later with abuse of office (Article 285 of the Criminal Code) and illegal circulation of ammunition (Article 222 of the Criminal Code).
Source: Rosbalt
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