Russian Region Lawmakers Want Constitution Changed to Allow 3rd Term for Putin
MosNews | August 10 2005
http://www.infowars.com/articles/world/russia_change_const_allow_3rd_putin_term.htm
A group of deputies of the local legislature in the Russian Far East region
of Primorye have drafted amendments to the Constitution enabling President
Vladimir Putin to run for the third term, the NTV television reported on
Wednesday.
One of the deputies told the channel that the effective constitution
contains contradiction and must be amended.
Adam Imadayev said in an interview that in accordance with Article 32 of
the Constitution, citizens of the Russian Federation have the right to vote
and run for government posts if they are legally capable and are not
serving a prison sentence passed by a court of law. However, Article 81,
paragraph 3, says that one and the same person cannot hold the post of the
Russian president for more than two consecutive terms. In other words, one
article does not impose any limitations while another one does, the deputy
said.
The proposal was approved on Wednesday by the Law Committee of the
Legislative Assembly of the Primorye Region. The legislature will consider
it in early September and if approved, the document will be submitted to
the State Duma.
Vladimir Putin's second term in office expires in March of 2008. The
current Russian law forbids him to run for the third term, but given
Putin's high ratings among Russian voters the question of whether he is
interested in staying in power for another four years arises quite often.
So far, Putin has denied any plans to stay saying that the Constitution
expressly bans such a move.
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