MOSCOW. April 8 (Interfax) - At the parliamentary vote on May 8 the Communist faction might vote against appointing Vladimir Putin as Russian prime minister, the party's leader, Gennady Zyuganov, said.

"There is only one way the Duma can stop something: vote "for" or vote "against." We have never supported this course, nor are we able to," Zyuganov told a press conference at the Interfax head office in Moscow on Tuesday.

The current executive power system "has proved absolutely inefficient," he said.

The faction's decision on the prime minister candidate will depend on who will be in the new Cabinet, he added.

The current Deputy Prime Minister, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, and head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography Mikhail Shvydkoi should not remain in the new government, Zyuganov said.

"We have not held consultations yet. But that socio-economic course which over the past eight years has seen a pouring of golden rain of gold reserves with no big enterprise being built during those eight years - that course is unacceptable for us," the Communist leader said.