Chapter 1137 Follow the Procedure
Compared with the "thrilling" general election, this year's Duma election seems a bit calm.
There were basically no major incidents during this period. It took only one month for the election to be successfully completed, and all the newly elected or re-elected Duma members were in place.
The election results were also in line with most people's expectations.
The faction once led by Wang Ye, now led by Dania and Oleg, has still become the biggest winner in this Duma election!
We won 230 of the 450 seats, which is more than half!
The faction led by Zhirinov became the second largest force in the Duma, winning 80 seats.
The faction led by Gryzlov won 50 seats and became the third largest faction.
The original largest faction, the Shilawik Group, only won 48 seats this time, making it the fourth largest faction.
The royalists, with Rosiana as the representative and Dugin as the party leader, won 42 seats, becoming the fifth largest faction!
As for the small factions that were still able to get scattered single-digit seats, they were "annihilated" in this election change. This also shows that there will be no room for small factions to survive in the future Duma...
The new Duma's election was completed, and the Speaker and Deputy Speaker were elected at the first plenary session of the Duma.
Grezlov was elected speaker with a high vote.
Zhirinov was elected first deputy speaker.
Dania, Oleg, and Dugin are ordinary deputy speakers, and everything is going smoothly according to Wang Ye's plan.
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In fact, before the general election in the Duma was over, Wang Ye had already had several closed-door meetings with Meddev, Gazev and others to discuss the list of members of the new cabinet.
Those departments under Wang Ye's direct jurisdiction are naturally not within the scope of this adjustment. The focus is on fine-tuning some government departments without moving too many people.
However, for a key position, that is, the Minister of Finance, Wang Ye did not consult Meddev and made a decision directly.
The candidate he determined was Elena...
When Meddev heard the name, he seemed to want to say something, but in the end he held it back and did not raise any objections.
Elena is one of the people Wang Ye trusts most, and she is highly educated and highly intelligent. She has been working with Wang Ye for six or seven years!
In the past two years, Wang Ye has been entrusted with the important task of serving as the director of the Industrial Support Fund Office. She has disposable cash of up to one to two hundred billion US dollars every year, and she has performed particularly well in this position.
Industries such as automobiles, the Internet, and chips that have become the engines of the national economy have developed with the support of Irina's industrial funds.
Therefore, it does make sense for such a character to serve as the Minister of Finance.
No matter in terms of qualifications or ability, Meddev cannot find anyone who can compare with her...
So even if they knew that Wang Ye deliberately placed his confidants in key positions, others would not be able to find any fault.
Of course, after Elena becomes the Minister of Finance, she will still serve as the Director of the Industrial Fund Office. Anyway, Wang Ye will basically leave all the money matters to her!
However, Wang Ye plans to hand over the management of the newly established Kremlin special fund to Nova, so that his "sister-in-law" can slowly take over some important work.
After all, it is my own family, so I have no worries about using it. Moreover, the special fund is not a public fund. Sometimes some funds are used for special purposes. The fewer people who know about it, the better!
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After the new cabinet list was submitted to the Duma, it was approved by vote the next day. From this, it can be seen that the relationship between the Kremlin and the Duma this term is also quite harmonious, and they work well together.
Of course, this is also because Wang Ye "started" in the Duma and still has great influence in the Duma.
If Wang Ye had not won the election in the end, but someone else had replaced him, the cabinet list might have been messed up...
After completing the two major events of the Duma and the Cabinet, it was already May 2009, and Wang Ye's attention returned to economic development.
After nearly two years of economic policy stimulus and active rescue efforts by countries around the world, the economic crisis that began in 2007 and then swept the world in 2008 has begun to subside, and the global economy has begun to pick up.
In this global economic crisis, the traditional economic powers have basically been greatly affected, but there are also several large countries with relatively outstanding economic performance.
This includes China, India and Russia!
In particular, Damao’s economic growth rate in recent years has been particularly amazing!
It has been more than double-digit growth every year for five consecutive years.
Although one of the more important reasons is that the country's original base is very low, so once international energy prices rise or commodity exports increase, the country's economic growth will easily increase.
But it cannot be denied that behind all of this is Wang Ye's hard work and dedication.
Otherwise, why didn’t Mao’s economy develop for so many years before he took charge of the country’s economy?
The reason why he has been recognized by almost all factions and is in the position he is in today is because everyone thinks that he is a master of economics, and the country cannot do without him if it wants to develop!
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On May 9, in Simferopol on the Crimean Peninsula, the heads of the member states of the Organization for Economic Mutual Assistance gathered together and held a meeting.
Wang Ye also personally attended and led the meeting. In fact, this meeting was held at his suggestion.
At the meeting, Wang Ye proposed the concept of "Eastern European Union".
It means to refer to the EU model and link the economies of all member states of the Organization for Mutual Economic Assistance more closely!
Everyone is exempt from visas and tariffs, and citizens of all countries can move freely within the entire Eastern European Union. They can enjoy the local national policies for employment, work, study, business, etc.
By then, everyone may only have different nationalities on their passports, and everything else will be the same...
Of course, in this alliance, Russian is naturally the official common language. Originally, the most widely used language in Eastern Europe is Russian.
The reason why the concept of "Eastern European Union" was proposed at this time was that Wang Ye felt that the "heat" was almost right.
In recent years, through the Organization for Mutual Economic Assistance, he has made the relationship between Russia and its member states very harmonious!
After all, he takes out 30 billion US dollars every year to help these "poor brothers", how can he not be welcomed...
In addition, in recent years, the overall economy of Russia has begun to grow by leaps and bounds, and although the economies of the remaining countries have also improved, they are far behind Russia in terms of size and growth rate!
Even if Wang Ye did not propose this Eastern European alliance, many people in neighboring countries also yearn for the life in first-tier international metropolises such as Moscow and St. Petersburg, and many students have gone through layers of selection before they have the opportunity to study in universities in big cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg.
It is conceivable that these college students will naturally not return to their own countries after graduation, but stay in big cities such as Moscow and St. Petersburg to work and live as much as possible.
Now that Wang Ye proposed to establish an Eastern European alliance, it is nothing more than directly breaking that layer of window paper, and everyone should stop being shy. Wouldn't it be better to "integrate" directly!
And now it is just an "alliance", and the military and political power still belongs to the governments of various countries. It is just "unified" at the economic level, so there is no need to worry that the leaders of various countries have other ideas.
Besides, the successful example of the European Union is there, and there are ready-made "answers" to copy...
To be honest, joining this kind of alliance is simply a pie in the sky for poor and small countries!
Have you not seen that many small and poor countries in Europe have always dreamed of joining the European Union? Isn't the purpose to get huge subsidies from the European Union every year after joining?
In the final analysis, the European Union is equivalent to rich countries such as Germany and France paying out of their own pockets to subsidize those poor countries, which is the same as Wang Ye paying out 30 billion US dollars every year to subsidize neighboring brother countries!
So, although there was no Eastern European Union before, Wang Ye was actually doing the corresponding things, and now it is just to determine the nature.
Of course, in this kind of alliance, rich countries have to pay out large sums of cash subsidies to other member states every year, which seems to be a big loss.
But in fact, the rich countries that pay money can also get a lot of potential benefits.
For example, with the tariff-free markets opened by the member states, they can dump their industrial products there, and also get cheap labor and cheap high-quality resources from each other...
So in fact, everyone can get what they need through this alliance.
Since those small and poor countries cannot become rich by their own efforts, they can hand over the market and economic policies to the capable "big brother" to help them, and then the "big brother" will give them some subsidies every year to make their lives a little more comfortable...
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When Wang Ye proposed the plan to establish the "Eastern European Union" at the meeting, he immediately received enthusiastic support from the heads of the member states.
Yanukovych immediately said that this was a good plan that would benefit the people of the entire Eastern European region. On behalf of Ermao, he absolutely supported Wang Ye's plan and would submit it to the parliament for a vote after returning.
The heads of Sanmao, Kazakhstan, Asia and America, Azerbaijan and other countries also rushed to express their support for the establishment of the Eastern European Union, and all said that the sooner the better!
In fact, compared with the European Union, Wang Ye's Eastern European Union is not thorough enough.
Because there is one most critical thing he has not yet started to promote, that is, monetary integration...
After the establishment of the European Union, each member state abolished its own currency and switched to using the unified euro!
Wang Ye mainly considered that his brother countries were relatively poor. If he directly used a unified currency, the exchange rate would probably not be able to hold up, and it would even directly drag himself down!
The European Union has the confidence to use a unified currency, and in the first few years after it was launched, the value of the euro began to be higher than the US dollar!
At this time when they were having a meeting, the exchange rate of the euro to the US dollar was still around 1.4...
That's because the European Union is rich enough!
Although after two years of economic crisis, the economic development momentum of the European Union has slowed down and even started to decline, its GDP is still as high as 17 trillion US dollars!
At the same time, the GDP of the United States was only 14.5 trillion US dollars, so at that time, the European Union was the world's largest economy...
What can Wang Ye's Eastern European Union compare with others? The total GDP of all member states of the Eastern European Union except Russia is not as high as that of Russia alone. Some countries' GDP can even be almost "negligible", and Russia itself is only more than 1 trillion US dollars.
That is to say, the total GDP of all the countries in the entire Eastern European Union is less than 2 trillion US dollars, which is about one-eighth of the European Union...
So Wang Ye rationally did not carry out currency integration. Everyone continued to use their own currencies and waited until the time was right to promote currency integration.
While Wang Ye was busy with the Eastern European Union, a sensational event happened in South Korea, thousands of miles away...
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On the evening of May 10, Samsung Group Vice Chairman Lee Jae-young finished his work for the day and prepared to return home.
Recently, he has been working very hard. He arrives at the company very early every day and then works until very late before going home.
In fact, he was not like this before, but recently the old man has been seriously ill and the group is about to officially select a successor. He has the biggest voice, but there is still some controversy. Some shareholders question whether Lee Jae-young has enough ability to shoulder the burden of the entire Samsung Group.
So he has been working very hard recently, and this is also to win the support of the group...
As the successor of a wealthy family, Li Zairong certainly did not neglect his own safety. Every time he went out, in addition to his secretary and assistant, he also had a security car with several fully armed security personnel.
The children of wealthy people in Hong Kong were kidnapped and made the news before, and he didn't want to appear in similar news...
The car was speeding on the empty streets late at night. Li Zairong sat in the back seat with his eyes closed, thinking about tomorrow's work arrangements.
Suddenly, he heard a roar, and then his driver's exclamation.
Before he opened his eyes to see what happened, he felt a huge inertia coming. He flew directly to the front seat without wearing a seat belt at all. He felt a sharp pain and then lost consciousness.
Before losing consciousness, the last thought in Li Zairong's mind was "Remember to wear a seat belt when riding in the car in the future..."
The next day, all the front-page headlines in South Korea published the same news.
"The heir of the Lee family was in a car accident and was seriously injured!"
"The vice chairman of Samsung was in a car accident on his way home and was rushed to the ICU ward. He may not be able to save his life..."
Yes, the car that Lee Jae-young was riding in was hit head-on by a large truck that lost control on the way home. Because he was not wearing a seat belt, he suffered a serious head injury in the car accident and has been sent to the hospital for emergency treatment.
It is said that the situation is not very optimistic. Maybe the person can be rescued, but because of the head injury, his IQ is...