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Mironov calls for extending president's mandate to 5-7 years, third term
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| Last Edited | Ralphie Mar 30, 2007 08:17am |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| News Date | Friday, March 30, 2007 02:15:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Sergei Mironov, Speaker of Russian parliament's upper house, has proposed extending the presidential mandate to five-seven years and adding a third term Friday.
"I propose you consider amending the relevant constitutional provisions," Mironov told the upper house, which has just approved him as Speaker.
Under the current Constitution, the president can be elected for two consecutive terms of a maximum of four years. The speaker said that Russians had filed numerous applications asking the president to stay for a third term.
The prospect of President Vladimir Putin remaining in power for a third presidential term when his current term runs out in 2008 has been widely debated in Russia, although the president himself has repeatedly said he will not run again. |
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