How Vladimir Putin is preparing to stay in power until 2036

Correspondent in Moscow,

Vladimir Putin hates more than anything, they say, having to act under the pressure of men and events.

And it is obviously to keep all the cards in hand concerning his political future that he initiated a reform last year allowing him in theory to remain in power until 2036, that is to say twelve years after the end of his mandate. current, which ends in 2024.

This project, included in a package of constitutional amendments approved by referendum last July, was the subject of a bill tabled in November, and voted on last month by both Chambers of the Russian Parliament.

It is this text which was promulgated Monday by Vladimir Poutine.

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