Thinking back to how, some time ago, a large number of First Faction members had inexplicably defected to him, Wang Ye suddenly had a flash of insight. He vaguely felt that he had grasped the key to the issue!
The First Faction had never been a monolith!
Even Gryzlov admitted that their faction was riddled with internal cliques and had extremely complicated relationships.
It had originally been formed through the merger of several different parties and represented the interests of many sides. Although in the last election, they had unanimously nominated Putin as their candidate for president, and had indeed succeeded.
But several years had passed, and many people's thinking had changed.
Moreover, Putin had never joined the First Faction. Even though the heads of various government departments all came from the First Faction, and most of his trusted subordinates also came from it.
That still did not make him equivalent to the First Faction!
As far as Putin was concerned, aside from the Second Faction being at odds with him, all the other factions supported him.
Oh, now there was also Khovchenko's new faction...
Other than those two factions, no other faction had the ability to put forward a decent presidential candidate. In other words, none of them posed any threat to him.
So in next year's Duma election, whether Gryzlov's faction or Wang Ye's faction won the most seats, what impact would that have on him?
Whether Gryzlov or Wang Ye took the speaker's seat, what threat could that pose to him?
Clearly, neither would!
It could even be said that if Wang Ye's faction won the most seats and Wang Ye himself succeeded as Speaker of the Duma, it would actually be better for Putin.
Because their relationship was closer!
That was his own "son-in-law"...
Whether morally