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Vladimir Putin has said he will run for president in the March 2024 election, moving the longtime Russian leader a step closer to a fifth term in office.

The announcement on Friday was widely expected and there is little question about the outcome.

Putin has dominated Russia’s political system and the media for the past two decades, jailing prominent opposition politicians, such as Alexei Navalny and Ilya Yashin, who could challenge him on the ballot. Putin has won previous elections by a landslide, but independent election watchdogs say they were marred by widespread fraud.

Putin’s long-term spokesperson in a previous interview said: “Putin will be re-elected next year with more than 90% of the vote”.

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[–] lysol 88 points 8 months ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 70 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Sludgehammer 17 points 8 months ago

Oh, I'm sure a few Russian oligarchs and mobsters will win big.

[–] idunnololz 50 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Putin is gonna lose the election to Putin, just you wait!

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[–] DrSleepless 72 points 8 months ago (3 children)
[–] Everythingispenguins 33 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Man why did you do that. Now it's just not going to be the same watching it.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Right? I was kinda hoping the other guy nab maybe 40% of the votes atleast and only leave 80% for Putin

[–] Everythingispenguins 8 points 8 months ago

In Russia the numbers math you

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

By a landslide with 107% of the vote

[–] Rakonat 6 points 8 months ago

Wow, he's really lost his touch with the people, compared to his days of 127% and then 146%

[–] RizzRustbolt 5 points 8 months ago

Real spoiler alert: it's actually his double that wins. Putin's been dead for six months.

[–] dinckelman 44 points 8 months ago

We all already know how this will end. It’ll be a landslide win, with the closest opponent getting 5% of votes at best. That’s assuming they won’t fall out of a seemingly random window by then

[–] Riccosuave 36 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

At no stage in history has Trump ever had anything close to that physique.

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[–] QuarterSwede 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

“Run” is used loosely here.

[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 12 points 8 months ago

"Sit comfy"

[–] doublejay1999 32 points 8 months ago

The arrests have already begun.

[–] Cyberjin 26 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Why not just do like the Chinese dictator Xi Jinping and become a "forever" dictator?

[–] Fleur__ 9 points 8 months ago

Being "voted" in is a powerful political tool

[–] Womble 9 points 8 months ago

Xi isn't a dictator for life, he still has to be re-elected by the politburo each time his term runs out. It's just that he has purge and stacked everywhere to an extent it seems impossible that he ever wont be re-elected unless something dramatic happens.

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[–] EvilEyedPanda 24 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

He's already won with 97% of the vote!

The other 3% have their execution dates set.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

Hmm I wonder who will win?

[–] PorradaVFR 21 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Remember when he termed out?

Also, I look forward to hearing policy positions from his opponent … oops he fell out a window. This other candidate … window. And … window.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Well it's not Putin's fault if all the other candidates are idiots and so stupid they cannot even keep themselves from falling out of a window. Also, do you want someone suicidal to run your country? /s

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah its totally an "election"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

It's easy to win when all your opponents tragically fall out of a window.

[–] DDNB 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Imagine if this is his way out of the war, he just loses the election (to a puppet prob) and then it's their problem. They pull out of the war and then putin says "I would never have pulled out of the war, shameful display!"

[–] Sanyanov 6 points 8 months ago

That'd be amazing

Sad it's not gonna happen

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[–] thorbot 12 points 8 months ago

He looks like a ball of dough wrapped around a lump of shit

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

It displays those countries that have never had a strong history of democracy will struggle to not fall back into Fascism, Communism, or some form of military control via a dictatorship.

It's been interesting over my life from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the new Russia and former soviet block countries having sampled western ways.

It's been interesting to see limits on how long one can run for office in Russia was worked around with swapping roles of president and premier early on to a outright change of removing such limits.

I recall the older generations in these countries longing for the good old days of their memories when bumps in the road arise. The Soviets were some good guys they said. That was when things was great for them. Much better than the western experiment turned out.

We also see the purges throughout the Communist party in China and the removal of limits so one can become the ruler for life.

Many countries around slipped back into Fascism, Communism, dictatorships, cults of personalities, with America barely holding on to not circling down this same drain in the past few years with those wanting to see these same changes to limits and even restricting voting in a country with one of the strongest histories of voting freedom. It's been odd to see the right embrace their love for Russia when traditionally that was very not patriotic behavior that would see many blacklisted. It's a badfe of honour now for many like those that fly Nazi flags in the streets.

As the world continues to go right, it's been interesting to see how much goes wrong. I wonder if this is how things were getting in the run up to the first. world war with the chaos and extremism running amuck then.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

"President"

[–] cogman 10 points 8 months ago

On the ballot "Putin" or "Frontline".

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Betting houses are offering .5 to 1 odds he wins. Halve your money with one smart bet!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Another rigged presidential run, the Putin way!

[–] agent_flounder 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What the GOP aspires to, apparently.

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[–] Buffaloaf 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Update: Putin has already won the 2024 election

[–] agent_flounder 4 points 8 months ago

With a new record of 120% of the votes!

[–] xc2215x 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

He will win and stay the leader of Russia.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

*surprised Pikachu*

[–] filister 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

At this point I wonder why they even have elections. I am also expecting for them soon to change their name to Democratic republic of Russia, following North Korea's lead and a couple of more outstanding democracies.

[–] agent_flounder 8 points 8 months ago

The Russian leadership seems to enjoy the thrill of doing or saying things that everyone knows is total unfettered bullshit but nobody will question for one reason or another (usually fear of defenestration).

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

I hereby announce I will run for president in March 2024. This has already moved me a step closer to my first term in office.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Vladimir Putin has said he will run for president in the March 2024 election, moving the longtime Russian leader a step closer to a fifth term in office.

Putin has dominated Russia’s political system and the media for the past two decades, jailing prominent opposition politicians, such as Alexei Navalny and Ilya Yashin, who could challenge him on the ballot.

If he remains in power until then, his tenure will surpass even that of Joseph Stalin, who ruled the Soviet Union for 29 years, making Putin the longest-serving Moscow leader since the Russian empire.

Putin, who was handed the presidency by Boris Yeltsin on the last day of 1999, has already served as the Russian leader for longer than any other ruler but Stalin, beating even Leonid Brezhnev’s 18-year tenure.

“The elections are meant to legitimise his decision to invade Ukraine,” said Andrei Kolesnikov, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, based in Moscow.

The pro-war Russian nationalist and Putin critic Igor Girkin has also indicated he wants to run for president but is unlikely to be listed on the ballot given he is awaiting trial on extremism charges.


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[–] jdrch 4 points 8 months ago

To no one's surprise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

What a waste of paper to print all the ballots with the vote already casted. Can't they just announce it without the environmental damage?

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