Putin confirmed Run for the 5th presidential term, likely to hold power until 2030.

Vladimir Putin has confirmed he will run for another term in the presidential election next March. This will keep him in power until 2030.

Foreign news agencies report that Russian leader Vladimir Putin announced on Friday, December 8, 2023, that he will run for a fifth presidential term in elections scheduled for March 17. July 2024, if victorious He will remain in power until at least 2030.

Putin has held power in Russia for more than two decades, since being appointed acting prime minister in August 1999 before being handed the presidency by Boris Yeltsin on New Year’s Eve the same year.

Putin then served two four-year terms as president and stepped down in 2008 in accordance with constitutional restrictions. Putin supported Dmitry Medvedev to take over. While he himself went to sit in the Prime Minister’s chair for the second time.

However, Putin returned to the presidency in elections in 2012 and 2018, with his term in office being increased to six years, keeping him in power until now. In 2021, he signed a law into effect. Opening the way for himself to run for 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 this March Because within his dictatorship Leaders of opposition politics have all met a similar fate. If they do not exile themselves, they will be imprisoned or die mysteriously.

The March 2024 elections will be the first in which citizens of the four Ukrainian regions annexed by Russia – Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporichtia and Kherson – will take part. Participate in the Russian presidential election The Central Election Commission stated that They will hold a house-to-house vote. Between 15-17 Mar.