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Fed Council Speaker Urges to Extend President’s Term to 7 Yrs
Russia’s Federation Council Speaker Sergei Mironov advocates extending the president’s tenure to seven years and the term of State Duma’s authority to five years.
The president’s administration or the president himself, or the government may initiate the gap between presidential and parliamentary elections and prolongation of the president’s tenure to seven years, Mironov said.
It is not the first time that the issue of changing the dates of State Duma and presidential elections is raised in Russia. United Party Leader and State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov spoke of it April 7. “The president’s and State Duma elections should be separated, of course. The ideal variant is two years,” Gryzlov announced, reasoning it isn’t easy to keep the nation in election state for six months in a row.
Earlier, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin expressed discontent about overlapping elections of president and to the State Duma and urged the new Duma to separate them in future. “No need to submerge the country into an endless train of elections, as the nation has got tied with all kinds of political technology and political advertising,” the president explained.
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