 After the debate, conducted by State Duma in April 2012, the direct elections of governors were expected to be restored.A Landeshauptmann (German for "state captain" or "state governor", literally 'country headman'; plural "Landeshauptleute" or "Landeshauptmänner" as in Styria till 1861; "Landeshauptfrau" is the female form) is an official title in German for certain political offices equivalent to a Governor.It has historical uses, both administrative and colonial, and is now used in federal Austria and in South Tyrol, a majority German-speaking province of Italy adjacent to Tyrol.