MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has not yet expressed his intentions regarding the presidential election due in 2024, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS in an interview.
“Have you heard a statement on this score? No. I haven’t, either,” Peskov said when asked whether Putin had already decided whether he would participate in the election. In response to a question when such a statement might be expected, he said: “I don’t know.”
Putin in his message to the Federal Assembly on Tuesday said that the planned 2023-2024 elections, including presidential ones, will be held in strict accordance with the law and in compliance with all democratic procedures. The head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, said after the presidential message that the next elections – a single voting day in September 2023 and the presidential election in 2024 – will be called and held within the deadlines specified by law. The presidential election is scheduled for March 17, 2024.
Putin has the right to run for president in 2024. At the year-end news conference in December 2020, he said that he had not yet decided whether he would seek another term or not. He remarked that “formally, there is such a permission from the people” and it remained to be seen whether he would use it or not. (MENA)
