Vladimir Putin confirmed that he will run for another term in the presidential elections next March. This will keep him in power until 2030.
Foreign news agencies reported that Russian President Vladimir Putin announced, on Friday, December 8, 2023, that he would run for a fifth presidential term in the elections scheduled for March 17, 2024, if he wins. He will remain in power until at least 2030.
Putin has been in power in Russia for more than two decades, since his appointment as acting prime minister in August 1999, before Boris Yeltsin assumed the presidency on New Year’s Eve of the same year.
Putin then served as president for two four-year terms and resigned in 2008 in accordance with constitutional restrictions. Putin supported Dmitry Medvedev to take power. While he himself went to sit in the Prime Minister’s chair for the second time.
However, Putin returned to the presidency in the 2012 and 2018 elections, with his term increased to six years, keeping him in power until now, and in 2021 he signed a law that takes effect, opening the way for himself to run for the presidential elections. President for two more terms.
The amendment means Putin, now 71, will be able to extend his rule of Russia until 2036, when he will be in his mid-80s and in power for more than three decades.
It is believed that Putin will not face any obstacles. In the elections next March because he is inside his dictatorship and all political opposition leaders have faced a similar fate. If they did not exile themselves, they would be imprisoned or die under mysterious circumstances.
The March 2024 elections will be the first in which citizens of the four Ukrainian regions annexed by Russia – Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporishtia and Kherson – participate. The Central Election Commission stated that they will conduct a house-to-house vote. Between 15-17 March.
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