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Russia Created Power Structure on French Model
During the recent Congress of United Russia Party, President Vladimir Putin has officially agreed to head the government if Dmitry Medvedev is elected a new president of Russia. Putin particularly emphasized that there would be no redistribution of authority in this case.
Of interest is that the chiefs of the regions and parliament members, whom RBC Daily asked to comment on the situation, specified that the president had created in Russia a stable power structure on the model of France, which didn’t provide for any diarchy.
But the analysts are more cautious. Their forecast is that, as a prime minister and national leader, Putin would rule the country at first, but Medvedev may strengthen his standing in the course of time.
Putin would have all power at the beginning, the analysts predict, recalling the Yeltsin time, when first Evgeni Primakov and then Putin himself had been the prime ministers of real authority. Putin knows that the head of the cabinet has actual levers of executive power, the analysts specify. But in Russia, a president couldn’t be a technical figure. So, Medvedev would build up influence after a while.
Another scenario is that the legitimate diarchy will replace the one-man authority in the country. Indeed, Russia’s political vocabulary has been already enriched by the “Putin-Medvedev tandem” word combination.
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