MOSCOW, Oct 20: The head of the presidential administration and Kremlin's most powerful leader, Valentin Vumashev, today proposed that President Boris Yeltsin's powers be transferred to Prime Minister Yevgeni Primakov, reports Novosti.According to Vumashev, who is also close to the President's daughter Tatynia Dyachenko, powers of the Ministries of Defence, Interior Security and Foreign Affairs, generally monitored under the President's eye, should also pass into the hands of Primakov. This, observers say, would virtually make Primakov the acting president of the country.
Such a move stems in view of the President's inability to cope up with his work, say analysts. With this, political observers say Kremlin has confessed of the President's precarious state of health, a prime speculation around the world.
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