In a government session today, the regional leader said the government had fulfilled only 284 of 486 decrees and instructions and that the government members therefore collectively will be dismissed, the regional administration’s website informs.
-Oleg Leonidovich, you are a military person, please tell us whether a fight can be won when 30 percent of the orders are not fulfilled, Gaizer asked Oleg Manuilo, the leader of the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations.
-That will be the strictest possible punishment – [death with] shooting, Manuilo replied, Komiinform.ru reports.
Gaizer was in the session also confronted with figures which show that the regional population is highly dissatisfied with the work of the authorities. According to leader of the government administration, Lilia Oparova, sociological studies show that less than 30 percent of the population is pleased with the work of the government authorities, while 45 percent say they are dissatisfied.
-The officials are oriented on the processes, rather than on the results, Ms Oparova told the audience. -There is an unwillingness to solve the problem, she added. According to regional leader Gaizer, the government members will continue in their posts until their replacements have been found.
As reported by BarentsObserver, Vyacheslav Gaizer was sworn in as new regional leader on 15 January 2010. He came from the post as regional Minister of Finance. He took over the post from long-serving regional leader Vladimir Torlopov.
Mr. Gaizer, born in 1966, is a native from the Komi Republic. He comes from the town of Inta, a coal mining centre north in the region. Gaizer is himself a Komi, the minority people which has about 30 percent of the regional population.
The Komi Republic is located on the western side of the Ural Mountains. It has about one million inhabitants. It is the easternmost federal subject in the Barents Region
