Putin Announces He Will Run For President In 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin has confirmed he will run for President again in 2024.

Putin has been Russia’s leader for nearly two decades, alternately serving as president and prime minister since 1999.

If Putin wins another presidential election in 2024, he will be in power until at least 2030.

In a short statement to the press Putin declared “Now is the time, I will run,”

✅Putin confirms he will run for President in 2024.

As a Russian citizen abroad, I will campaigning for Putin over the next 4 months & encourage the millions of Russians abroad to vote for Putin.

PS. In 2018 elections 68.07% of eligible voters in Australia voted for Putin. pic.twitter.com/3dYDLvq5yJ

— Aussie Cossack (@aussiecossack) December 8, 2023

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Per CNBC:

Incumbent Russian leader Vladimir Putin has confirmed he will run in the national presidential elections of 2024, state news agency Tass reported, according to a Google translation.

Russians will head to the polls on March 17, with Putin’s current powers set to expire on May 7.

Putin, 71, has run Russia for roughly 24 years, alternatively serving as prime minister and president since 1999. Securing another presidential mandate in 2024 would see him remain at the helm of Russian politics until at least 2030.

Russian state news outlet Ria Novosti reported that Putin was on Friday awarding a medal to veterans of its war in Ukraine, which Moscow dubs its “special operation,” when a soldier asked him to run once more for president. Putin confirmed he would.

“Now is the time, I will run,” he said, in Google-translated comments reported by Ria Novosti.

“We are very glad that the president heard our request for nomination, all of Russia supports him,” the solder Artyom Zhoga said afterward.

Putin could potentially remain in power until 2036 thanks to two constitutional amendments that he oversaw. In 2008, the constitution was adjusted to lengthen the presidential term from four to six years. And in 2020, Putin secured constitutional changes allowing him to pursue two further six-year presidential mandates, after his current one expires in 2024.

⚡️Russian President Vladimir Putin announces that he will seek re-election in 2024. He made his remarks at a ceremony where he awarded Hero of Russia medals to servicemen who had taken part in the special military operation.

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Per CNN:

Vladimir Putin says he will run for president again in Russia’s elections in March 2024, in a move that could see him retain power until at least 2030.

Putin made the announcement Friday after a ceremony at the Kremlin, the official residence of the Russian president.

Putin will bid for his fifth presidential term at the elections, set to take place on March 17, 2024, as he aims to solidify his continuous hold on power as head of state or prime minister for more than two decades.

The upcoming elections will also mark the first time that residents of the occupied Ukrainian regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, annexed by Russia during the conflict, will participate in the presidential elections.

Russia’s Central Election Commission said it would organize “house-to-house voting” in those four regions over three consecutive days on March 15, 16 and 17.

The international community previously condemned local elections in these regions, organized by Russian-backed officials, as a sham.