Emilia Slabunova

Russian politician

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is  Edgardovna and the family name is  Slabunova.

Emilia Slabunova

Эмилия Слабунова

Slabunova in 2019

Leader of Yabloko
In office
20 December 2015 – 15 December 2019
Preceded by| Sergey Mitrokhin
Succeeded by| Nikolay Rybakov
Member of the Karelia Legislative Assembly

Incumbent

Assumed office
4 December 2011
Personal details
Born|

Emilia Edgardovna Slabunova

(1958-10-07) 7 October 1958 (age 65)
Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Political party| Yabloko
Spouse| Alexander Slabunov
Children| Anastasiya (1981) and Kirill (1984)

Emilia Edgardovna Slabunova (Russian: Эмилия Эдгардовна Слабунова; born 7 October 1958) is a Russian politician. She was leader of Yabloko party from 2015 to 2019 and a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia since 2011.

## Political career[edit]

In 2001 she was elected as a deputy of Petrozavodsk City Council. She failed to gain enough votes to be elected the chairwoman.

She joined the Yabloko party in 2003. She ran for the Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia in 2006, but the Yabloko slate was annulated by the republican authority.

She was elected as a deputy of the fifth Legislative Assembly of the Republic of Karelia in December 2011.

In September 2013 Slabunova was the main oppositional candidate for the Mayor of Petrozavodsk. Her candidacy was withdrawn by the Petrozavodsk District Court two weeks prior to the election due to a violation of rules filling one of the documents. This decision was confirmed by the Supreme Court of the Republic of Karelia.[1] Later on, the chair was taken by another Yabloko candidate, Galina Shirshina.

After the election, Slabunova quit her job as a principal in one of the schools to become the chairwoman for the expert council for Shirshina in October 2013.[2][3]

Later on, she actively opposed the Head of the Republic of Karelia, Alexander Khudilaynen, seeking to remove her from the chair[2] due to a political escalation in the region as well as persecution of Yabloko members. In May 2015 she led the rally for resignation of the Head.[4] On 23 June she sent 10,000 signatures to the President of Russia for Khudilaynen to be discharged.[5]

## Yabloko leader[edit]

On December 19, 2015, on the XVIII Party Conference, she was elected as the new leader of Yabloko, beating Alexander Gnezdilov, Nikolay Rybakov, and Lev Schlosberg, with the former two supporting her in the second tour. She was also supported by Grigory Yavlinsky.

On July 4, 2016, she was officially announced as the candidate for federal legislative election from Yabloko.[6]

On December 15, 2019, during the party Congress, Slabunova lost re-election and was defeated by Nikolay Rybakov.[7]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Самовыдвиженец Галина Ширшина победила «единоросса» на выборах мэра Петрозаводска
2. ^ a b Илья Азар (24 July 2015). "Мэр без компромиссов". Meduza. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
3. ^ "Мэр Петрозаводска: "Сломать меня сложно"". ИА FlashNord. 16 May 2015. Archived from the original on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
4. ^ Таисия Бекбулатова (20 May 2015). "Александра Худилайнена призвали уволить досрочно". Коммерсантъ. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
5. ^ Таисия Бекбулатова (23 June 2015). "Против губернатора Карелии выдвинули 10 тысяч подписей". Коммерсантъ. Retrieved 20 December 2015.
6. ^ "Региональные группы партии "ЯБЛОКО" на выборах в Государственную Думу". www.yabloko.ru. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
7. ^ «Яблоку» предложили не прерывать съезд