The Russian Lower House has approved Vladimir Putin’s longtime ally Dmitry Medvedev as cabinet chairman for a new term, despite opposition from leftist parliamentary caucuses.
Of 433 lawmakers who were present at the Tuesday session of the State Duma, 374 voted in favor of Medvedev’s candidacy and 56 voted against. There were no abstentions. Earlier, representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and the center-left party Fair Russia said they would not vote for Medvedev as PM as they considered the cabinet’s performance over the past years as extremely poor.
In accordance with Russian law, Medvedev’s government was dismissed after …read more
Source: Protothema
