Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Photo: Gennady Cherkasov
Poliologist Maxim Zharov said that due to the serious situation of the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Vladimir Zhirinovsky, who is in the Central Clinical Hospital with pneumonia in the background of coronavirus, the party can expect big changes, according to the website Utro.ru. < The LDPR may "reorient itself to the classic liberal versions and will be led by a completely unexpected figure from the country's highest political elite", & nbsp; the expert noted. According to him, the vice-president of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, one of the leaders of United Russia, could become the new leader of the Liberal Democrats. Dmitry Medvedev.
Zharov reiterated that in the worst case, it was very likely that Dmitry Medvedev or someone around him would appear at the head of the Duma. And because the party without Vladimir Zhirinovsky will cease to be anything, it will be redesignated.
Deputy Speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament Boris Chernyshov can temporarily replace Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Other sources of the publication informed about it. The party itself has not yet commented on the question of Vladimir Zirinovsky's successor. > 
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