When is the next presidential election in Russia

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

The elections of the President of Russia, according to the law of 10.01.2003 N 19-FZ, takes place once every 6 years. Therefore, the next ones are expected in 2024. We've looked into the latest news on what they will become and who the new Russian leader will be.

What the law says about elections

Hypothetically, any citizen of the Russian Federation who has reached the age of 35 and has lived on its territory for at least 10 years can become the President of Russia. This legislative formulation limits the coming to power of those who have not reached the electoral qualification, but does not limit the upper limit.

In world political practice, there are enough cases when people who have already reached retirement age applied for the presidency, and they achieved the desired victory. There are many people in the world who occupy the top rungs of the hierarchical ladder who are over 70 years old.

1. In the next elections, both men and women can become candidates for the highest office. The country does not make a difference between the sexes, does not restrict rights on this basis. There are many countries in the world where women make political careers faster than men, hold not only the presidency, but also the royal throne, become ministers, even defense ministers (a common practice in European countries).
2. Knowing Russian legislation, it is easy to calculate in what year the next elections will take place. The latter took place in 2018, it is logical to assume that new ones will be appointed in 2024. There is another scenario - early, but in order for them to take place, a number of conditions must be met, which are provided for in paragraph 2 of Art. 92 of the Constitution of Russia (resignation, permanent incapacity for health reasons, removal from office).
3. World practice shows that recently the change of power is taking place due to the weakness of the leadership, which cannot cope with the color revolutions inspired and financed from the outside. It is better for Russia to avoid such a scenario, in whatever year foreign agents decide to do it. The sad outcome is known, just look at the nearest neighbors.
4. By law, the post of president cannot be held by a person who has already ruled the country for more than two terms in a row. Even without considering the situation in other countries, but only modern Russian history, we can conclude that this situation can be easily circumvented if the former leader becomes prime minister, and a person belonging to the same political force comes to the post of president.
5. The Russian electoral system does not infringe on the rights of self-nominated candidates (people who have proposed their candidacy and fulfilled the existing conditions) or representatives of a formed political force (party) that has decided that he is the most worthy candidate.

The current Russian leader has 4 years left before the expiration of the term of office received after the procedure for the election of the President of Russia. There is no sense yet to speculate and look for candidates. Those who are not in the mood for the reign of chaos should remember in what year the next legal election will take place.

Possible candidates

In whatever year the next presidential elections in Russia take place, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has no right to run again for the post of Russian leader. Therefore, the topic of changing the leadership is already open and is being actively discussed in the mass media.

The predictions of psychics and oracles are already being analyzed, from Vanga, who predicted the prosperity of Russia in the early 2020s, to lesser-known visionaries, who are confident that the country will face decay and chaos.

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Analytical reviews of political scientists are at about the same level. They offer various options:

• the new president will be a woman who is known to all voters (the range of proposals is wide - from Natalia Poklonskaya to Ksenia Sobchak, who failed miserably in the previous elections);
• a young representative of the current political force will be promoted and appointed, who will continue the already existing economic strategy of national revival;
• a completely unknown person will come to power, about whom no one suspects anything, and he must be looked for in the immediate non-public environment of the current President (by analogy with Putin and Yeltsin);
• By some miracle, the chairman of a closed joint-stock company in Samara or an opposition leader, the leader of protest actions, will reach the presidency.

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The topic raised by some opposition journalists has no basis, since V. V. Putin had already left office and then returned to power. In any case, there are still four years ahead.

This time is enough for objective forecasting, and not following the rumors circulated by the yellow press about the visions of Nostradamus, who predicted the new capital of Russia in Siberia or Matrona of Moscow, confident that only total Orthodoxy will save the country.

Summarize

The next presidential elections in Russia are expected in 2024:

1. Putin will not run because he is now ruling for a second legal term.
2. Various candidates are being considered.
3. There are still 4 years ahead, a lot can change.
4. Early elections cannot be ruled out with certainty.