Putin to nominate new prime minister on Sunday

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Putin to nominate new prime minister on Sunday

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, who sacked the cabinet on Tuesday, will nominate a new Prime Minister on Sunday, Alexander Zhukov, first deputy speaker of Russia's State Duma (lower house of parliament), announced Friday.

"We expect Russian President Vladimir Putin to submit his proposals on the candidacy of the new prime minister to the Duma on that day," he was quoted by Interfax news agency as saying.

The Duma may hold a plenary session on approving the candidate for prime minister as early as next Wednesday, he said.

Putin on Wednesday held consultations with the United Russia party, which has a constitutional majority in the Duma, on the possible PM candidate, said Zhukov, adding that the consultations will be continued on Sunday.

Earlier on Friday, Lyubov Sliska, another Duma's first deputy speaker, told Interfax that the Duma will be able to debate the nomination of the new prime minister as early as March 3 or 5 if the president nominates a candidate by then.

Sliska confirmed that after the March 14 presidential elections, the cabinet will have to resign again and, following the inauguration, the newly elected president will again have to nominate a prime minister.

"That will basically mean nominating the same man again," she said.

Putin fired the cabinet headed by Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov on Tuesday aimed at enhancing the confidence in the win of the next month's presidential poll.

Putin has said to form a new cabinet on the parliamentary majority.

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