File photograph of Russian President Vladimir Putin. (Image: AP)
The laws permits him to run for 2 extra six-year phrases as soon as his present stint ends in 2024.
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- Last Updated:April 05, 2021, 23:09 IST
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a legislation that might preserve him in workplace within the Kremlin till 2036, the federal government mentioned on Monday.
The laws permits him to run for 2 extra six-year phrases as soon as his present stint ends in 2024. It follows modifications to the structure final 12 months.
Those modifications have been backed in a public vote final summer season and will permit Putin, 68, to probably stay in energy till the age of 83. He is presently serving his second consecutive time period as president and his fourth in complete.
The reform, which critics solid as a constitutional coup, was packaged with an array of different amendments that have been anticipated to garner well-liked assist, akin to one bolstering pension protections.
The legislation signed by Putin limits any future president to 2 phrases in workplace, however resets his time period depend. It prevents anybody who has held international citizenship from operating for the Kremlin.
The laws was handed within the decrease and higher homes of parliament final month.
