Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that he has not yet decided whether to run for a new six-year term in the Kremlin when his current term ends in 2024, and praised US President Joe Biden’s intention to run again.
“As for my plans, then I have to say do you know what the trick is? The trick is that according to the constitution, I have the right to be elected for a new term. “Whether or not I will do this at the moment I have not decided, but the very existence of this right (of the candidacy) already stabilizes the internal political situation, much like Biden did when he announced that he would be a candidate,” he said. Putin.
Putin has been in power as president or prime minister since the turn of the century, making him the Kremlin’s longest-serving leader after Joseph Stalin. Russia voted for reforms last year that give President Putin the right to run for another two six-year terms, without which he would have to step down in 2024.
Some analysts have suggested that Putin could become a “powerless” president if he were not able to run again in 2024.
The issue is extremely sensitive to the Kremlin, which earlier this month denounced it as “absurd” interference, a resolution proposed by US lawmakers that Putin should not be recognized as Russia’s president if he stays in power after in 2024.
Earlier, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters that Biden intends to run for a second term in 2024. He will formally announce his decision after the US midterm elections in Congress on November 22. .
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