page_title: Valery Hartung
section_title: Political career
hierarchical_section_title: Valery Hartung / Biography / Political career
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Депутаты Госдумы, члены фракции "Справедливая Россия" Анатолий Грешневиков, Валерий Гартунг и Олег Нилов
context_page_description: Valery Karlovich Hartung is a Russian politician serving as the Member of the State Duma since 1997.
context_section_description: On 14 December 1997, at the by-election in the 186 single-mandate constituency of the Chelyabinsk Oblast, he was elected to the State Duma. In the State Duma he was a member of the parliamentary group "Russian Regions" and a member of the State Duma Committee on Budget, Taxes, Banks and Finance.
  In 1999 he was re-elected to the State Duma in the same constituency, was a member of the parliamentary group "People's Deputy" and a member of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes.
  In the 2000 presidential election he was a trustee of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin. In December 2000, he ran for Governor of Chelyabinsk Oblast, took third place in the election, gaining 14% of the vote.
  On 7 December 2003, he was re-elected to the State Duma from the 186 single-mandate constituency (68.5% of voters voted for him). Initially he was a member of the United Russia faction, later came out of their faction and more registered in the parliamentary association is not included. He was a member of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes, and then a member of the State Duma Committee on Industry, Construction and High Technology.
  In January 2002 he was elected Chairman of the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the Russian Party of Pensioners (RPP), as well as a member of its Central Council. At the extraordinary Congress of RPP on 31 January 2004 was appointed as Acting Chairman of the party (instead of Sergey Atroshenko). At the V Congress of RPP on 27 March 2004 almost unanimously (86 voted for his candidacy and only 1 — against) was elected Chairman of the Russian Party of Pensioners. In 2005, by a court decision was dismissed from the post of Chairman of RPP, in November 2006, the Presidium of the Moscow City Court overturned the decision of Meshchansky District Court on the recognition of incompetent decisions of IV and V Congresses of RPP, where Hartung was elected Chairman of the Party.
  In 2007 he became the member of A Just Russia party.
  In 2007 and 2011 and 2016, he was re-elected to the State Duma by A Just Russia party list in the Federal constituency.
  Valery Hartung is the deputy head of A Just Russia parliamentary group. He is a member of the State Duma Commission on Parliamentary Ethics and First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy, Industry, Innovation Development and Entrepreneurship.
caption: Hartung with Oleg Nilov and Anatoly Greshnevikov during the session of the State Duma
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