 Although Yeltsin promised that he would abandon his unpopular neoliberal austerity policies and increase public spending to help those suffering from the pain of capitalist reforms, within a month of his election, Yeltsin issued a decree canceling almost all of these promises.Right after the election, Yeltsin's physical health and mental stability were increasingly precarious.Many of his executive functions thus devolved upon a group of advisers (most of whom had close links with the oligarchs).