Stories of the old watchmaker

Russian President Vladimir Putin called the new Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov a contender for the presidential chair. “It is good that another person appeared in the lists of candidates in the election of the President of the Russian Federation,” ITAR-TASS quotes him.

Putin said that five people can apply for the presidency in the 2008 elections, but did not call them a name.

According to the president, he is waiting for Zubkov "will thresh like a Swiss watch."

Putin also said that members of the government of Mikhail Fradkov can remain in the new office only if the work is complete. "I considered it right to do this (to resign the government. - Ed.) Now, in order to show all people who have a chance to stay in ministries and departments, provided that they are aware of responsibility and will work with the full return of strength."

He noted that it is better for those who are ready to change their work, the occupation, it is better to do it now - to conduct permutations and create an effective team in the period before the elections and after.

In the afternoon of Friday, the State Duma of 381 voted Zubkov at the post Prime Minister. Then Putin signed a decree on his appointment.

During the discussion of the candidacy of Zubkov, the first vice speaker of the State Duma Oleg Morozov, on behalf of United Russia, demanded that he restore order in the government. “Put out the order in this government, in its structure,” he turned to the premiere’s candidate. “Changes were rushed in the personnel in personnel.”

The leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky said that the Government of Zubkov will be the best in 30 years. He called on the head of the future office to build "not new factories and three -story tractors, but computer centers." He stated this, polemicizing with the head of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of the Communist Party, nostalgically responding about the successes of industrialization in the USSR.

Speaking in front of the lower house, Zubkov promised personnel changes in the office. "I agree that the chosen strategy (transformations in the social sphere - ed.) Was chosen correctly, and the execution was worthless. Therefore, naturally, here, in the social bloc, there were a lot of problems. People are unhappy," he, of course, will take measures. "