Becoming a Russian Oligarch After Rebirth
Chapter 799: Wang Ye’s Ambition_1

Chapter 799: Chapter 799: Wang Ye’s Ambition_1

What Wang Ye meant was to assure Grezlov not to worry about their faction challenging the status of his faction.

Don’t forget, the third faction currently only has forty seats, even with five more it’s only forty-five!

Your faction occupies three hundred seats...

What you should be worried about is the second faction!

They will definitely launch an offensive next year to seize seats from your faction.

That’s your biggest enemy!

Of course, Grezlov understands this, his previous statement was simply out of surprise and unwillingness.

So after hearing Wang Ye’s words, he laughed, and said cheerfully: "Then congratulations to you for having gained another strong member! Oleg is a veteran congressman with deep qualifications and extensive contacts."

Well, he’s not wrong about that.

Wang Ye’s team was lacking manpower, especially in the Duma, where several assistants, though capable, are not congressmen and cannot participate in major events.

Once Oleg arrives, Wang Ye will observe for a while, and if it works out, he will assign the Party Whip position to him!

As for next year’s election, Wang Ye’s goal is to at least secure sixty Duma seats!

He must retain all of the current forty-five seats, and obtain at least fifteen more qualified congressmen from other factions, ensuring they clinch Duma seats.

Of course, if everything goes smoothly and luck is on his side, he may get even more seats!

With at least sixty seats, Wang Ye’s influence and status in the Duma will be further enhanced!

Another point worth noting is that once Oleg’s faction merges, Oleg may not be able to hold on to his Vice Speaker position next year.

Because a faction having two Speakers (including the Vice Speaker) has never happened before in the Duma, even the first faction only has one Speaker.

But Wang Ye is determined to maintain Oleg’s Chairman position!

Compared to the position of Vice Speaker, the Chairman position holds more real power, no matter how minor his committee duty may seem...

In this way, Wang Ye’s faction can indeed be called a strong force.

A Vice Speaker, two Committee Chairmen, a number of committee members, and sixty Congressmen!

Even for Grezlov and Kremlin, if they want to push through any major policies, they must first seek Wang Ye’s opinion.

Otherwise, they could potentially face resistance in the Duma.

This is real power!

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Sixty seats, plus two committees, this force may not be able to achieve anything significant on its own.

But if it wants to sabotage your grand plans, that’d be much easier.

Don’t forget, the First Faction and the Second Faction are at odds, and the Second Faction also holds ninety seats.

If the First Faction proposes a policy that is not advantageous for Wang Ye, he could team up with the Second Faction and directly veto it in the Duma.

The two factions combined would have at least one hundred and fifty votes; if they can gather a few scattered votes, the support rate for the First Faction’s proposal would not reach seventy percent and thus not pass.

Unlike the current Duma where the First Faction monopolize three hundred seats and don’t need to negotiate with other factions on any proposals.

As long as most members within the faction support it, it couldn’t possibly fail in the Duma congress.

Because they hold seventy-five percent of the seats in the Duma alone!

So, whether Wang Ye can secure sixty seats next year, or whether the Second and Third Factions combined can secure one hundred and fifty seats, is extremely critical.

Although it may not seem like many more seats than this year, the impact on the Duma is significant!

This point, it is not known whether Grezlov and the Kremlin have noted.

But Wang Ye hasn’t revealed this "ambition" to the public, his recent actions seem to only be aiming to preserve his current seats.

Even after Oleg’s defection, the number of seats would still not exceed the "red line"...

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While Wang Ye quietly sets up his strategies, others are not idle.

Take for example the Second Faction, Krov has called a meeting with the faction’s hard-core members.

The topic of discussion is naturally the election next year.

During the meeting, Krov ambitiously proposed a goal of securing one hundred and fifty Duma seats next year!

They already have ninety seats, and the reason why they are confident in gaining an extra sixty next year is that they presume the First Faction will significantly lose seats!

You must know, in the years since the First Faction came into power, they have not fulfilled their campaign slogans.

The domestic economy is still struggling, showing almost no progress compared to a few years ago.

This results in a substantial number of voters becoming disillusioned with the First Faction, and in the next election, they may vote for other factions.

And the most significant of these "other factions" could be the Second Faction...

Of course, this is Krov’s judgment.

The second faction is deeply entrenched and powerful, with both money and manpower!

They’ll even aim for the Kremlin spot next year.

One would think that with only one hundred fifty seats, making up only a quarter of the total Duma seats, they certainly can’t become the leading faction.

Therefore, they don’t qualify to compete for the highest position!

However, Krov has an idea; he believes that the "First Faction", or the current one, will not get one hundred and fifty seats next year!

That is to say, as long as their faction can secure one hundred and fifty Duma seats, most likely next year they would become the Duma’s leading faction.

And Grezlov’s faction would suffer defeat at the polls.

They might even face a faction split!

Just as several factions could have merged into one before, they could just as easily split into several again...

In addition, Krov made a prediction about Wang Ye’s Third Faction.

He believes that the Third Faction will probably still be the third next year, with around fifty seats.

Truth be told, although Krov hasn’t interacted much with Wang Ye, he does not underestimate this young man; on the contrary, he gave him a fairly high evaluation.

After winning the election next year, Krov even plans to build a closer relationship with Wang Ye...

As for Khodorkovsky’s faction, Krov doesn’t hold in high regard.

Never mind competing for the Kremlin position, he figures that if they can secure ten Duma seats, it would already be considered a huge success!

Both Mikhail and Khodorkovsky are outstanding, but currently, the uncle is being completely overshadowed by the nephew in both business and politics; the disparity is not small at all...

Not only is this Krov’s assessment, it is the common appraisal of most people in the Russian political elite!