New Presidential Election Law Signed… Can be served consecutively until 2036
Reign seems to be longer than Stalin’s 29 years
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Russian President Vladimir Putin (pictured) has laid the legal basis for his term of office until 2036.
According to the Russian Tas News Agency on the 6th, President Putin signed a revised law on the previous day to reorganize the election and referendum-related laws to comply with the constitutional provisions revised last year. The new presidential election law stipulates that’Russians who have held two presidency positions or who hold the second term of office as of the date of election announcement are not eligible to run. The same person was forbidden to serve as president more than three times.
But the clue ran. It is that the existing term of office held by a specific person until the time the amendment adopted last year came into effect is not counted. In fact, a special provision targeting only the incumbent President Putin would “cut off” his existing term so that he could rerun. President Putin can rerun the presidential election for the fifth term in 2024, when he turns 72, and holds two more six-year terms until 2036, when he turns 84.
President Putin, who first came to power in 2000, has continued to hold his presidency except for five years (2008-2012), when he served as’real prime minister’. With this revision of the law, President Putin was able to take office for a whopping 30 years. The previous long-term rule was Iosif Stalin, who ruled the former Soviet Republic for 29 years.
President Putin has expressed his willingness to run again early. In an interview with the local media in June of last year, he said, “We are not excluding the possibility of running for the presidential election in 2024 when the amendment proposal is confirmed.” The Daily Moscow Times said, “If Putin remains in office until 2036, it will be longer than Stalin, the longest in power in (Russia) history.”
/ Reporter Yang-jun Cho [email protected]
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