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Mwaka 2020, Serikali ya Putin mwenye umri wa miaka 71 ilifanya mabadiliko ya kuondoa ukomo wa mihula ya Urais ambapo sasa inampa nafasi kutawala taifa hilo hadi mwaka 2036 kama atashinda Uchaguzi wa mwaka 2024.
Tangazo hilo linakuja wakati ambapo mpinzani wake mkuu, Alexei Navalny ambaye yuko Gerezani ambako anatumikia kifungo cha miaka 30, akikabiliwa tena mashtaka mapya.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that he will run in the 2024 presidential election.
Putin announced his decision to seek to extend his rule on Friday. He is almost certain to win a fifth term as president, allowing him to continue leading Russia’s invasion of neighbouring Ukraine.
If elected, the 71-year-old will extend his 24-year leadership of Russia, albeit with an eight-year stint spent formally as prime minister. His tenure is now the longest of any ruler of Russia since Josef Stalin.
The decision comes as little surprise, with Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine seen as having boosted patriotic support for the president.
Putin announced his plan at an awards ceremony at which he presented veterans of the war with Russia’s highest military honour, state-run news agencies reported.
State media reported that one recipient of the Hero of Russia gold star, a lieutenant colonel named Artyom Zhoga, had asked the president to run again.
“He will run,” the soldier told reporters afterwards.
Earlier, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov had said that many people have urged Putin to run.
Russia’s Federation Council upper house approved on Thursday a date of March 17 for the vote.
Opposition politicians have cast the election as one that threatens democracy amid claims that Putin has tunred Russia into a corrupt dictatorship.
AL JAZEERA