Menyailo reduced the number of deputies in order to depend less on Chaly
Moscow - Simferopol, November 12 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) – Experts note that the number of deputies has been reduced to reduce the number of times government members need to coordinate with Legislative Assembly Speaker Alexei Chaly, and the appointment of new ministers has been “delayed” due to “difficult negotiations” between the governor and the speaker, Kommersant writes.
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The government of Sevastopol resigned due to the appointment of Governor Sergei Menyailo by the Legislative Assembly on October 9. The new government will have not ten, but five deputy prime ministers, whose appointment requires approval from the legislative assembly.
Sergei Menyailo explained to Kommersant that the appointments of new people are “already underway,” but Mr. Menyailo refused to name names. Menyailo’s assistant Igor Dolgopolov told the publication that the governor will have five deputies, not ten, as before. If previously deputy prime ministers also headed departments, now departments will have separate heads, and deputies will oversee the work of several departments and directorates.
Dolgopolov noted that the candidacies of deputy prime ministers will be agreed upon with the legislative assembly. According to the governor’s assistant, Alexey Chaly, the speaker of the Legislative Assembly, has not yet tried to take part in the formation of the government. “The governor is ready to consider proposals from any person. As far as I know, no such proposals were received from Alexey Chaly,” Dolgopolov said. At the same time, he noted that the criterion for employment in the government will not be recommendations, but “professional qualities.”
Earlier it was reported that when the legislative assembly approved Sergei Menyailo as the head of the city, he received the post of governor in exchange for “support for Chaly’s program” and “several government posts” for “the speaker’s people.” According to Dolgopolov, the governor will submit nominations for deputy prime ministers to the legislative assembly for approval “at the next session.”
Director of the Institute of CIS Countries Konstantin Zatulin believes that the number of deputy governors has been halved because Sergei Menyailo wants to “depend as little as possible on approvals” from the legislative assembly.
Alexander Formanchuk, head of the Crimean branch of the Institute for Socioeconomic and Political Research, believes that although the conflict between Sergei Menyailo and Alexei Chaly has subsided, mistrust remains. Therefore, any personnel appointment is delayed due to all sorts of approvals and negotiations.
English version :: Read in English Menyailo reduced the number of deputies to become less dependent on Chaly.