MOSCOW. May 8 (Interfax) - Deputies representing the Just Russia party voted against during a State Duma poll on Tuesday on ex-president Dmitry Medvedev's nomination as prime minister.

file photo "Today our group [in the Duma] has decided to vote against the candidacy of the leader of a party that we consider to be our political and ideological adversary," Just Russia's parliamentary leader, Nikolai Levichev, told the lower house during a debate that preceded the vote.

Levichev reminded the former president of a "four i's plan - institutions, infrastructure, innovations and investments" - that Medvedev announced in February 2008, just before he became president.

"However, during the next four years they never became the basis for the economic development of the country, but a fifth 'i,' imitation, manifested itself to the full. Imitation of all those reforms that I have spoken about," Levichev said.

He also cited Medvedev as saying recently that "conservatism" is the ideology he professes. "This suggests that a considerable part of the elite of the country has been wrong in the past four years in assuming that the president was pursuing a course for the liberalization of the economy and policy, and of the judicial and penitentiary systems," Levichev said.