A bill has been submitted to the State Duma of the Russian Federation, which provides the possibility for Russian President Vladimir Putin to run for two more presidential terms. The corresponding bill was submitted by the senator of the Russian Federation Andrey Kleshas, as well as the MPs of the State Duma from the United Russia party, Pavel Krasheninnikov and Olga Savastyanova.
The bill, which allows Russian President Vladimir Putin to run for two more terms, would implement the amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, adopted as a result of the all-Russian voting. These provisions already exist in the current version of the Constitution.
The bill emphasizes that a Russian citizen who has already held the presidency twice cannot be re-elected. However, this requirement does not apply to the person who held or is holding the presidency at the time of the entry into force of the relevant amendments to the Constitution, ie Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev. Therefore, Putin may run for Russian President for another term.
According to Apostrophe, after Russia voted in a nationwide referendum to amend the constitution, which "nullified" Russian President Vladimir Putin's presidential term, the Kremlin's head initiated a bill that would allow him to hold a lifelong position