Safin計畫參政 - 網球 Tennis

他...選上了XDDD
恭喜恭喜，要為民喉舌唷！
未來大家可以多注意國際政治新聞XDDD

Safin是代表「統一俄羅斯黨」的議員之一（該黨黨魁為Putin），
統一俄羅斯黨的這次選舉席次過半多一點點。

以下摘自wiki，介紹Safin未來的工作內容：

俄羅斯國家杜馬是俄羅斯聯邦會議的下議院，有450個議席。
國家杜馬是俄羅斯的常設立法機構，主要負責起草和制定國家法律。
參選議員的資格為最少21歲以上的公民，任期五年。

新聞原文：
http://www.atpchampionstour.com/news204.html

Safin Elected To Russian State Parliament

Former World Number One tennis player and star of the ATP Champions Tour,
Marat Safin, has been voted into the Russian Federal Parliament, the Duma.

Two-time Grand Slam winner Safin, a member of Vladimir Putin's United Russia
party, has been elected into the Duma's lower house as a representative for
the Nyzhny Novgorod region, approximately 500k from Moscow.

Ahead of the election results, Safin explained to the ATP Champions Tour how
he reached the decision to pursue his political ambitions.

"My life has been changing for the last two years," he said. "All of a
sudden I found myself in a situation where I had to make really serious
decisions. It started with one small thing and it grew up to something big.
I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a
celebrity, but that is not me. I never did this, I never liked it. I had a
few months of thinking 'should I do this or should I not' but now I am
pretty sure of what I'm doing and I want to do it."

The 31 year-old also explained his new political career shares some
similarities with his former life as a professional tennis player.

"I'm in completely new shoes," he said. "This is a completely new life, a
new way of thinking, new way of doing things that's nothing to do with
tennis or sports at all. But the two things definitely have one thing in
common and that is that you need to have a character. You have to be strong
and you have to know where you’re going, what you want to do, and you have
to be able to make sacrifices."

"I will be working for the next five years day after day, sitting in an
office, wearing a suit. I will have good days, bad days and I will have to
fight once again like I've been fighting on the court. It will be
complicated."

One of the most prominent supporters of Safin's political career has been
the man who he beat to win his first Grand Slam at the US Open in 2000, Pete
Sampras.

"In 20 years Marat will be the President of Russia!" joked Sampras, before
adding seriously:

"Trust me, Marat is going to go a long way. He is very intelligent and
articulate and he's good with people, and that's half the battle with being
a politician."

Safin is not the first Russian sports star to launch a second career in
politics. The 2005 Australian Open Champion is joining an exclusive club
which includes the likes of gymnast Svetlana Khorkina, figure skater Anton
Sikharulidze and heavyweight boxer Nikolay Valuev, all of whom have run
for office.

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