Despite all expectations, the Congress of Chechen Peoples didn’t call on President Alu Alkhanov to vacate the office.
Photo: Ramzan Gutsiev
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Kadyrov Elected Half-President
At the yesterday’s Congress of Chechen Peoples, Prime Minister of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov was elected to chair the Assembly of Chechen Peoples. But he wasn’t offered to become the president despite the obvious desire and expectations of many delegates.
A mere tour around Chechnya’s capital Grozny would suffice to disperse all doubts about the actual leader of the republic. The portraits of Akhmat Kadyrov (the late president of Chechnya), his son Ramzan Kadyrov, who is Chechen premier today, and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin could be seen everywhere, while the portraits of Chechen President Alu Alkhanov are few and far between.
“Kadyrov,” said Peoples Assembly Speaker Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov when asked to name the actual president of Chechnya. Even though the agenda of the Congress specifies no resignation of Alkhanov and Kadyrov’s appointment to succeed him, Abdurakhmanov said, the Congress is bound to respond if one of the delegates makes this proposal. “We will offer Alkhanov to take a decision,” the speaker was explicit.
But there was no need for it at least at the recent Congress. “I hope the Congress will do only good to the republic and no one will attempt to put his personal ambitions above the interests of the people,” Alu Alkhanov warned the delegates and left the Congress.
Of interest is that Chechen PM Ramzan Kadyrov missed the event, sending a congratulation telegram instead of the personal presence.
It became clear in the end that no one will suggest replacing Alkhanov by Kadyrov. Even Speaker Abdurakhmanov didn’t come up with this proposal, though he used his chance to again recall all military and labor deeds of the prime minister.
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All the Article in Russian as of Nov. 01, 2006
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