Senator from the Republican Party John Kennedy asked the USSR native to Saul Omarov, who President Joe Biden nominated the country’s Ministry of Finance, to explain its connections with the All-Union Leninist Communist Union of Youth (VLKSM). It is reported by RBC.
Kennedy demanded from Omarova to provide confirmation of the exit from the “Organization of Young Communists”. In response to this candidate for the post, which with difficulty understood the essence of the requirement, noted that, as she remembers, the Komsomol go to achieve a certain age. After other parliamentarians came to Omarov, noting that she had long refused the USSR citizenship.
It is noted that the 55-year-old Omarova is a graduate of Moscow State University. In the case of appointment, a graduate of Moscow University will be the first woman who has led the Office, for 158 years of its existence. At the same time, as FINANCIAL Times writes, the Republicans and representatives of the banking sector criticized the candidacy. “I’m a light goal: immigrant, a woman, a minority representative. I am easy to demonize and displacing me,” the politician itself emphasized.