Current President Vladimir Putin is not yet officially a candidate, but a 2020 constitutional revision theoretically allows him to remain in power until 2036.
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The deadline is now set. The next presidential election in Russia will take place on March 17, 2024, announced the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian Parliament responsible for setting the date of the vote, Thursday December 7. “This decision practically kicks off the presidential campaign” in Russia, welcomed the President of the Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko, during a meeting broadcast live by public television.
The presidential election must therefore be held shortly after the second anniversary of the start of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, launched in February 2022 and which provoked unprecedented sanctions against Russia. These elections “will be a sort of culmination of reunification“of the Ukrainian regions of Lugansk, Donetsk, Kherson and Zaporizhia, whose annexation Russia claims, underlined the President of the Federation Council.
According to her, “our citizens, our society are consolidated like never before” around the power of Vladimir Putin, “and the task of the State is to prove itself worthy of this trust, to prevent the slightest provocation”. Vladimir Putin is not yet officially a candidate in this election to seek a new mandate, but the constitutional revision of 2020 theoretically allows him to remain in power until 2036. “Our people will make the only right choice possible (…), by voting for Russia, for victory”estimated Valentina Matvienko.
