New Russian government expectations - Many unknowns: what to expect and what not to expect in the new government - On Thursday, candidate for Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin met in the State Duma with representatives of all four parliamentary factions. As a result of the meetings, it became known that at least one faction would not support Mishustin’s candidacy.
This, as you might have expected, is the Communists. Gennady Zyuganov explained that the absence of a team and program from a potential prime minister would not allow him and his party comrades to vote for Mishustin.
However, the demarche of the Communists will not affect anything. Mishustina was supported by United Russia, which has an absolute majority in the State Duma. So we can say that Mikhail Vladimirovich will not have any problems with the approval of the post of head of government.
New Russian government expectations
But as for the program and the team, he himself is also not particularly spreading.
- During a meeting with representatives of the Duma factions, Mishustin said that he intends to focus on the implementation of national projects, digitalization of the economy.
- It also became known that he is against the progressive personal income tax rate and changes in the pension system.
- Mishustin reported to the Communists about cardinal changes in the government - both in composition and in structure. But without any specifics.
Generally speaking, it is not worth expecting anything concrete yet. Although here is the adviser to the State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin Anastasia Kashevarova said that most of all the deputies at the meeting with the future Prime Minister criticized four ministries
But what experts suggest
Although the economist Vasily Koltashov, in an interview with the correspondent of Pravda.Ru, suggested that neither the Ministry of Culture, nor the Ministry of Education would particularly affect the changes. And most of all they will concern the financial and economic block of the government.
So, according to Vasily Koltashov, the new government will not have an acting first deputy prime minister, finance minister Anton Siluanov. His economist considers one of the main representatives of the liberal bloc in the government.
Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Labor, Social Policy and Veterans' Affairs, Yaroslav Nilov, told Pravda.ru that during the meeting with Mikhail Mishustin, personnel issues were not discussed.
Political analyst Dmitry Zhuravlev also believes that we should wait for the change of the Minister of Finance. "Not because the Ministry of Finance is a failure. For itself, it is quite correct. The problem is most likely the imbalance, the influence of the Ministry of Finance too much compared to the weak influence of the Ministry of Economic Development. As a result, government revenues grow and increase, and the economy, frankly, No. And it will not be very easy for Mishustin to work with the former boss as a subordinate, "said an expert at Pravde.Ru.
“But I, for example, would replace the Minister of Industry, the Minister of Economic Development. I wouldn’t touch the Presidential bloc in this case, because the whole topic is related to the social network and the economy. I don’t know about the deputy prime minister for social affairs, because it’s very difficult to separate the water of the seas from the water of the rivers. Who is to blame for what - the Minister of Health, the Deputy Prime Minister, or both of them are not to blame, and the governors are bad? The development of education and health requires explicit individualization. I need to change personalities, I don’t know. But the fact that there is something me it’s a fact, "the political scientist emphasized.