Largely seen as a foregone conclusion, it comes as the president is suffering low approval ratings. FMTNews Covid19
Putin waves to the crowd as he leaves Red Square after the Victory Day military parade yesterday.
Masks and disinfectant gels are being made available to 110 million voters across 10 time zones, from the Kaliningrad exclave on the Baltic Sea to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky on the Pacific Ocean. He has insisted that Russians vote on the changes even though a referendum is not legally required, arguing that a plebiscite would give them legitimacy.Opposition campaigner Alexei Navalny has slammed the vote as a populist ploy designed to give Putin the right to be “president for life”.Among other changes, the reforms would reset Putin’s presidential term-limit clock to zero, allowing him to run two more times and potentially stay in the Kremlin until 2036.
Senior political officials meanwhile have stressed the importance of giving Putin a chance to remain in power. “Otherwise, I know that in two years, instead of working normally at all levels of the state, all eyes will be on the search for potential successors,” he said.With the revised constitution already on sale in Moscow bookstores, the ballot is largely seen in Russia as a foregone conclusion.
The reforms also enshrine economic changes that guarantee the minimum wage will be no less than the minimum subsistence level while the state pension will be adjusted annually to inflation.
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