In "EP" in its own way explained the reason for the resignation of Kudrin: the time of "accountants" with "personal ambitions" passed

The first deputy secretary of the Presidium of the General Council of the United Russia party, State Duma deputy Andrei Isaev, commenting on the proposal of the president to the Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin to resign, said that he completely agreed with the reaction of Dmitry Medvedev to the statement of the head of the Ministry of Finance.

"Alexei Kudrin did not understand the main thing: the time of accountants in the leadership of the country passed, the time of modernization and serious tasks came ... He also did not understand that Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev is a hundred times more expensive than a hundred curls, that now the time is not personal ambitions, but the consolidation of efforts to solve the problems of the country, " Interfax quotes the words " .

It should be noted that the possible political ambitions of the Minister of Finance were spoke immediately after his interview with Reuters of September 13, in which Alexei Kudrin allowed himself to sharply criticize the current leadership of the country and noted that he personally would not be bored with transformations in the country in any position.

However, immediately after the announcement of the "castling" of the president and Prime Minister Kudrin, he said that he would not work in the Medvedev government, although he was not invited there. “I don’t see myself in the new government,” he said in Washington, where he was at a meeting of the International Monetary and Financial Committee. “The point is not only that no one suggested me, but I think that the disagreements that I have, they do not allow me to go to this government.”

Recall that in August 2011, information appeared in the media that United Russia, who regularly and previously criticized the Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin, invited him to head his pre -election list in the Arkhangelsk region. The Secretary of the Presidium of the General Council of the Party, Sergei Nevorov, said then to the public proposal, noting that "representatives of the Arkhangelsk region addressed Kudrin, " Gazeta.Ru noted.

As deputy Andrei Isaev then said, the party is a large organization, and, "apparently, our Arkhangelsk branch adheres to more liberal views than I am."

It was later announced that the proposal of the Arkhangelsk United Russia did not reach the Minister of Finance and Kudrin "did not plan to head any party list in any election," the representative of the Ministry of Finance explained.

In recent years, United Russia has been periodically engaged in fierce criticism of Deputy Prime Minister and budget policy pursued by him. Especially criticism was aggravated after Kudrin’s speech at the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum , where he said that "honest elections should be held in Russia."