Compared to the "heart-stopping" presidential election, this Duma election seemed rather calm and uneventful.
Nothing major happened during the process. The transition was smoothly completed in just one month, and all the newly elected or re-elected Duma deputies took their seats.
The election results also matched most people's expectations.
The faction Wang Ye had once led, now under the leadership of Danya and Oleg, remained the biggest winner of this Duma election!
It secured 230 of the 450 seats, more than half!
The faction led by Zhirinov became the second-largest force in the Duma, winning 80 seats.
Gryzlov's faction won 50 seats, becoming the third-largest faction.
The Silovik Group, formerly the largest faction, won only 48 seats this time, falling to fourth place.
The Royalist Faction, represented by Rosiana and led by Dugin, won 42 seats, becoming the newly ascendant fifth-largest faction!
As for the smaller factions that had previously managed to win scattered single-digit numbers of seats, they were completely wiped out in this transition. This showed that there would no longer be room for small factions to survive in the Duma...
Once the new Duma had completed its transition, it elected its speaker and deputy speakers at its first full assembly.
Gryzlov was elected speaker by an overwhelming vote.
Zhirinov was elected first deputy speaker.
Danya, Oleg, and Dugin became ordinary deputy speakers. Everything was proceeding smoothly according to Wang Ye's plan.
In fact, before the Duma's transition election had even concluded, Wang Ye had already held several closed-door meetings with Medvedev, Gebliev, and the others to finalize the list of members for the new cabinet.
The departments directly under Wang Ye's authority were naturally outside the scope of this adjustment. The focus was on minor adjustments to several government departments, and not many people were replaced.