Who may have seen this coming?!
Russian President Vladimir Putin is on observe to keep up his grip on the nation’s prime job till the tip of the last decade, declaring his intent to win an election even his personal officers have mentioned is kind of a formality given the near-total clampdown on home opposition.
The 71-year-old confirmed he’ll search one other six years in workplace throughout a vote scheduled for March 17 subsequent yr, state-owned information outlet TASS reported after Putin spoke at an occasion within the Kremlin on Friday.
In an interview over the summer time, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov revealed his boss “will probably be reelected subsequent yr with greater than 90 % of the vote” as a result of Russia’s presidential election “is just not actually democracy, it’s expensive forms.”
Peskov later claimed he’d been misinterpreted and meant the vote was a achieved deal for causes of Putin’s recognition alone. Putin was first elected as Russian president in 2000 and, apart from a break when he took on the position of prime minister between 2008 and 2012, has held the highest job ever since.
Jailed opposition chief Alexei Navalny has launched an “anybody however Putin” marketing campaign from behind bars, however says the outcomes will probably be “rigged” anyway.