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Presidential Campaign Set into Motion
The presidential election campaign has been launched in Russia. Rossiyskaya Gazeta edition promulgated today the Fed Council’s ruling of November 26, 2007 on holding presidential elections March 2, 2008.
Russia’s upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, voted November 26, 2007 for setting March 2, 2008 as the date of presidential elections. The ruling that was inked by Fed Council Speaker Sergei Mironov takes effect on the date of official publication.
By promulgating this ruling, Rossiyskaya Gazeta has officially set into motion the campaign for presidential elections in the country.
Today’s intrigue is whether Russia’s President Vladimir Putin will run for presidency despite the third-term ban spelled out in the Constitution.
Putin always claims he has no intention to do it, as it would require amending the Constitution. But when addressing supporters at All-Russia’s Forum in Luzhniki, the president declared that the outcome of presidential elections in March 2008 would be determined by parliamentary elections of December 2007.
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