President Vladimir Putin is expected to easily win a landslide victory and another six-year term
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In charge of all the levers of state, incumbent Vladimir Putin, 71, is expected to easily win a landslide victory and another six-year term. In 2020, changes to the constitution were made which allowed Putin to serve another two six-year terms from 2024. That means he could stay in power until 2036.A 75-year-old member of Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, Kharitonov is the official candidate of the Communist Party, whose candidates have finished a distant second to Putin at every election since 2000.
Slutsky, a regular on state TV where he voices anti-Western views, is seeking to tap into his late predecessor’s popularity among Russians by campaigning on the slogan “Zhirinovsky lives on.” Navalny’s supporters accuse Putin of having him murdered, something the Kremlin has rejected. In life, Navalny accused the Kremlin of keeping him out of politics by fabricating a slew of criminal cases against him – including for fraud and extremism – in order to jail him. Navalny accused Putin of also having him poisoned in 2020, something Putin denied.
Nadezhdin had surprised some analysts with his criticism of what the Kremlin calls its special military operation in Ukraine, something he called “a fatal mistake” and has said he would try to end through negotiations. Kremlin critics say Nadezhdin would not have even been allowed to campaign and collect signatures without the authorities’ blessing, something he rejected.