Mr Chubais had pushed for Mr Berezovsky to be ejected from his job as deputy head of the presidential security council after the two had rowed over privatisation policy.
But the right hardly has a monopoly on privatisation, a policy embraced in some ways just as fervently by the former Socialist government.
Raising growth rates will require policy reforms, including privatisation and more flexible labour markets, reckons Ms Sahay.
When he was ahead in the polls, he tended to stress his policy proposals: partial privatisation of Social Security, tax cuts, school vouchers and the like.
Liberal Democrat leader Councillor Tim Pickstone said the policy would not lead to the wholesale privatisation of council services, but the authority needed far more scrutiny and consultation when service reviews take place.
John Kay, an independent economist, points out that privatisation did not get rid of the public-policy issues, such as the need to ensure supply, that led utility industries to be nationalised in the first instance.
Part-privatisation and competition created in a short time what decades of industrial policy had failed to do.
Mr Fujimori has slowed down the pace of privatisation, and has given no clear idea of the direction of economic policy for his third term.
He said the previous Labour government had "bribed and bullied councils into privatisation" and accused the coalition of pursuing a "neo-liberal policy of running down public sector housing".
Although he accepted that the government was not attempting a stealthy privatisation of the NHS, he said it could be a "catastrophic policy" which might be "regretted" in the future.
He was head of then-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Policy Unit between 1985 and 1990, and was one of the chief architects of the Conservative's privatisation and deregulation programme.
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