Vladimir Putin said he would consider running for a fifth term in 2024, arguing that the hunt for a successor threatens to paralyze Russian government approaches as the next election. “I do not exclude this possibility,” if the amendment is necessary for the Constitution was approved, Putin said in a Rossiya 1 television documentary broadcast late Sunday. “I have not made up my mind.” On July 1 vote Russians the greatest changes to the country’s constitution since it was adopted almost 30 years ago. allow the changes Putin, 67, his term limit to zero also be restored, although he served only four runs to lead the country for two additional six years in which its present since 2000 in 2024. In power Putin is already the longest-serving leader since Josef Stalin’s Kremlin. Without this change, “I tell you from personal experience that in about two years we can say, instead of the normal rhythmic work at various levels of government, then you should chase eyes to possible successors to switch to them,” Putin said. “E ‘need to work, you are not trying followers.” A top ally of Russian President Andrei Klishas, a senior legislator who helped lead the revision of the Constitution, said that Russians think, should stop after leaving office Putin will dominate. “You should get used to the idea that everything will remain the same, that the president can be re-elected if people support these changes to the Constitution,” Klishas said in an interview with RBC daily published Monday. “This change allows us to put the question of a successor to the side, the transfer of power and so on.” Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, on Monday denied comments by the chairman of the political system meant that it was working in the event of a change of leadership incapable built. But he said speculation “is a feature of our national bureaucracy.” Speaking of potential successors for now a “lame duck” in the last years of his current mandate always be avoided main goal of Putin, said Leonid Davydov, a political analyst at the Foundation for Development Civil Society in Moscow. But there is “no doubt” that chooses the Russian president to run again for election, he said. In the same interview-state television Sunday, Putin to absorb harshly criticized neighboring countries for “traditional Russian historical areas” for independence in 1991, they had acquired during the existence of the Soviet Union. These should have been “left with what they got, instead of gifts from the Russian people take,” he said. Russia, makes the Crimea in 2014 from Ukraine in the notes, the control of the new peninsula, which was Russian until 1954, has no territorial claims on its neighbors, he said Peskov told reporters Monday in a conference call, in response to a question about the comments. copyright Picture of Sputnik Alexey Nikolsky / AFP / Getty Images
Vladimir Putin noted that extend dependence on his reign in 2024
