Premier class race

Vladimir Putin is looking for a new prime minister. In accordance with the Constitution after the presidential election, he will have to submit the candidacy of the new head of government to the Duma. Of course, they may be Dmitry Medvedev, but, as Bloomberg writes , the choice will be made in favor of someone who can “breathe new life into the chuckling economy of the country”.

According to the sources of the agency surrounded by Putin, the approach of the elections provoked the revival of the lobbyists advocating the replacement of the current head of the government Dmitry Medvedev with a stronger manager. Among the possible candidates are called the Chairman of the Central Bank Elvir Nabiullin, Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin and the Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov.

True, by 2024, Sergei Sobyanin will be 65 years old, so if he is elected prime minister, his juice will end when he is already 71 years old. However, Vladimir Putin is now also 65.

In his article, which, in fact, is devoted to the trial of Alexei Ulyukaev, Bloomerg claims that Putin has been engaged in the fact that he pushed different groups in the authorities, including security forces who advocate the so-called economic nationalism, and supporters of mitigation of state control like Medvedev and the Ulyukaev itself. So journalists perceive the arrest of the former Minister of Economy as evidence of the aggravation of the political struggle.

Alexey Ulyukaev in court / AGN "Moscow" / Photo: Vedyashkin Sergey

Bloomberg claims that the security forces are currently in a more favorable position - but everyone in any case is waiting for how the trial of Ulyukaev will end, since the verdict may become a signal about the president’s further intentions.

It is worth noting that in Russia, discussions about who will become the next prime minister has recently drove. Even in the spring, even the ratings of probable successors were compiled and theories were built about who represents which financial and industrial group, it was even believed that the government could be resigned in the fall.

But now political scientists and journalists are busy with a much less global issue of the change of governors, and the government and even certain ministers are trying not to touch. Meanwhile, Dmitry Medvedev recently became the most “long -lived” chairman of the Russian government. If Viktor Chernomyrdin was a total of 5 years and 116 days, then Dmitry Medvedev is already more than 5 years and 150 days.

Medvedev and V. Chernomyrdin / Kremlin.ru

Political scientists, who often talk about the weakness of Dmitry Medvedev and, thus, predict him an imminent resignation, are mistaken every time - he retains his post in no matter what. Some suggest that there is a certain agreement with Vladimir Putin, who was concluded before the “castling” of 2012 - it is supposedly that he guarantees Medvedev to preserve the post to the nearest presidential election.

But it should be noted that Vladimir Putin is comfortable working with Dmitry Medvedev - his government members carefully fulfill the presidential instructions, listen to criticism, are not inclined to take on more than allowed. But be that as it may. Once the prime minister will have to change. Why not do it after the elections?