The President loves the quadruple

The governor of the Kemerovo region, Aman Tuleyev, was re-appointed in his post. Thus, one of the new principles for appointing regional heads was legitimized: they can serve no more than four terms in power. Previously, their stay at the top was limited to three terms. Nezavisimaya Gazeta recalls that President Dmitry Medvedev spoke about three terms as the maximum for governors at the end of December. He, however, made a reservation that exceptions are possible. Now the exception has become the rule. Perhaps some of the old-timers, who felt that their chairs were already shaking under them, were given the opportunity to catch their breath.

As the newspaper writes, a set of other criteria has become known that the authorities will use when making decisions on the reappointment of governors. Age is taken into account: the candidate must be no more than 70 years old (Tuleev is 66), so some old-timers (Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, the head of Bashkiria Murtaza Rakhimov, whose imminent resignation was repeatedly predicted, but he turned out to be unsinkable) will not be re-elected. Health is taken into account: the newspaper indicates that the governor of the Chelyabinsk region, Pyotr Sumin, was not re-elected precisely on the basis of inconsistency in this indicator. And finally, the governor’s rating, which will be derived from sociological research data. This criterion clearly played an important role in the approval of Tuleyev’s candidacy: he is popular in his region. True, quite recently, when replacing Alexander Filipenko, who was hyper-popular in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, with Natalya Komarova, this criterion was obviously not taken into account.