MOSCOW ? The unpopular governor of St. Petersburg resigned Monday as part an elaborate plan to get a higher position.
With elections coming in December, the ruling United Russia party has been concerned about its fading support and wanted to get a more voter-friendly face in office in Russia?s second-largest city, the hometown of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
St. Petersburg governor Valentina Matviyenko is now in line to become speaker of the upper house of parliament ? on paper, the third most important post in the Russian government, and one that?s currently vacant. But to be eligible, she first had to win election this past weekend to a district council seat.
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