The changes could lay the groundwork for Putin staying in power for life.
constitution and the removal of his longtime prime minister and cabinet, Russians have been asking themselves a single question: What is Putin up to?containing constitutional amendments and by Thursday the Russian Parliament had approved its first reading, 432-0.
From the outset, many observers immediately interpreted the situation as Putin laying the ground to remain in power past 2024, when his presidential term expires. The Kremlin has said once Parliament approves the constitutional amendments they'll be put to a"public vote," but no one really knows what that means -- or when it will take place. It could be in April.
Putin could repeat that trick in 2024, but he's suggested he doesn't intend to, and among the proposed constitutional changes is one that limits future presidents to two terms, consecutive or not. Federal Tax Service Chief Mikhail Mushustin speaking at President Vladimir Putin's meeting with the chief executives of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs in Moscow, March 24, 2016.The leading theory as to how that would work includes revamping an obscure governmental body, the State Council, which Putin has said should now have a new role.
The proposed changes, they noted, do not in fact leave the presidency weaker than other bodies. Contrary to what Putin had suggested, the actual text of the amendments shows the president will retain the power to appoint the prime minister over parliament. Crucially, they also make clear the State Council would be subordinate to the president -- whomever Putin chooses as his successor.
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