Medvedev and Alexei Kudrin

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Medvedev and Alexei Kudrin

Dmitry Medvedev is taking hard the decision he made to renounce the second term in office in favor of the leader of the United Russia party, snapping in angry outbursts like the one that led to the finance minister’s resignation.

Over the weekend the United Russia party held a congress at which the president of the Russian Federation proposed that the prime minister run for a third term in office at the elections in 2012.

The president of United Russia, Vladimir Putin, thanked Medvedev, accepted the proposition, which in the case of Russia means that he is almost president of the federation again, and then expressed conviction that Medvedev would be able to bring valuable people in his managerial team so that he may make a very good prime minister.

This predictable shift of offices ends months of disputes on whether the two leaders would run against each other in the elections next year.

Soon after the congress, the finance minister Alexei Kudrin announced that he was not going to serve under Medvedev in the new government, motivating his decision by their different views on military cuts.

There were rumors about the fact that Kudrin himself was expecting to be proposed as a candidate for the office of prime minister.

On Monday, at a meeting, Medvedev asked Kudrin to resign “here and now” if he considered he had any differences with the president of the Russian Federation, calling his statement on Saturday “indecent.”

When Kudrin told him he would have to consult with the prime minister first, Medvedev had another burst of anger, saying that he could consult whomever he wanted but that the decision laid with the president of the state, even though according to the Constitution the president cannot dismiss alone a member of the government. After being given a day to think about the resignation, Alexei Kudrin resigned his office latter on the day.

Russian analysts said that this new mood of the president shows that he had intended to stay in Kremlin for another term but that he was forced to keep his end of the deal he made with Putin before he became the president of the federation. That is why he was not able to keep this resentment within.

It is possible, analysts say, that he felt humiliated to be in position of renouncing the higher office, and he picked one of Putin’s allies to lash out at.

Presidential elections are about to be held in 2012, and the prime minister Vladimir Putin is due to become the new president of the Russian Federation. According to the Constitution, the president of Russia can only have two terms in a row, after which he must sit one term out, after which he/she can run for another term, and can have two terms.

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