{"id":117479,"date":"2021-04-06T12:48:13","date_gmt":"2021-04-06T04:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117479"},"modified":"2021-04-06T12:48:14","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T04:48:14","slug":"russia-pres-putin-signs-law-allowing-him-to-serve-two-more-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117479","title":{"rendered":"Russia: Pres Putin signs law allowing him to serve two more terms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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MOSCOW, April 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has given final approval to legislation allowing him to hold office for two additional six-year terms, opening the possibility for him to stay in power until 2036.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 68-year-old Russian leader, who has already been in power for more than two decades, signed off on the bill on Monday, according to a copy posted on the government\u2019s legal information portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin proposed the change last year as part of constitutional reforms that Russians overwhelmingly backed in a vote in July. Lawmakers approved the bill last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The legislation will reset presidential term limits, allowing Putin to run in elections again after his current and second consecutive term expires in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin was first elected president in 2000 and served two consecutive four-year terms. His ally Dmitry Medvedev took his place in 2008, which critics saw as a way around Russia’s limit on two consecutive terms for presidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While in office, Medvedev signed off on legislation extending terms to six years starting with the next president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin then returned to the Kremlin in 2012 and won re-election in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The term reset was part of constitutional reforms that included populist economic measures and sweeteners for traditionalists such as an effective ban on gay marriage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russians voted yes or no to the entire bundle of amendments in a vote last summer that was held over the course of a week, in a move authorities said was aimed at limiting the spread of the coronavirus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russians ultimately voted 78 per cent in favour of the changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin would be 85 when he leaves office if he is elected and serves two additional terms to their end in 2036. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MOSCOW, April 6 (NNN-AGENCIES) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has given final approval to legislation allowing him to hold office for two additional six-year terms, opening the possibility for him to stay in power until 2036. The 68-year-old Russian leader, who has already been in power for more than two decades, signed off on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[209],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117479"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}