Finance Minister Anton Siluanov has been proposed for the post of deputy prime minister while remaining finance minister, according to the proposals Mishustin put to Putin. Siluanov has headed the Finance Ministry since 2011 and held the same combined role of first deputy prime minister in Dmitry Medvedev's government from 2018 to 2020.
Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Putin backed the proposals. The candidates will now be submitted to the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, for approval, a duty assigned to it under the Constitution.
Primorye Governor Oleg Kozhemyako was nominated for the post of deputy prime minister and presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District, a position Yuri Trutnev has held since 2013.
Transport Minister Andrei Nikitin was proposed as a deputy prime minister who would oversee development of the transport sector. Dmitry Yadrov, head of the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya), was nominated to replace him at the Transport Ministry. The transport sector is currently overseen by Deputy Prime Minister Vitaly Savelyev.
First Deputy Finance Minister Irina Okladnikova was proposed by Mishustin for the post of deputy prime minister and head of the government apparatus, currently held by Dmitry Grigorenko.
Peskov said the meeting also covered social and economic development.