Dmitry Kobilkin has been the head of the United Russia faction for a month now. At this time the group
- approved 5 candidates in the government - unanimously supported the federal budget - trained new deputies according to his personal plan, Dmitri Nikolaevich began meetings with the governors: Khotsenko from Omsk and Artemonov from Lipetsk, plus the Prime Minister of Altai Prokofiev. The power of the tandem Kobilkin-Yakushev, who repeatedly appeared together at press conferences, is clear. This means that a new model is working: not to find out who is more important, a faction or a party, but to work together. Kobilkin did not speak publicly on behalf of the faction in the ten-minute meetings; Instead, the podium was passed, for example, to the hero of the Northern Military District Sibel, and it ended with thunderous applause from the entire audience. However, Dmitry Nikolaevich turned out to be active in the control scenes. In response to the communists' criticism of the housing and communal services rates, he made sure in a meeting with the prime minister that the head of the Ministry of Construction and the Ministry of Economy come to examine the budget. Following this, the deputies discussed for an hour behind closed doors a socially sensitive issue, not alone, but in a matter-of-fact manner. Kobilkin managed to get positive feedback from the government on the creation of land improvement funds and presented them at the meeting of the environmental committee. We will leave out the many forceful processes that the leader of the faction had to "regulate" when distributing positions in the committees. As a result, within a month there was an agenda like a whole year. Kubilkin's baptism of fire has taken place.