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NEWS > EVERYONE ELSE > MEDVEDEV SUPPORTS PUTIN FOR PRESIDENT, COOKS HIM BREAKFAST
MEDVEDEV SUPPORTS PUTIN FOR PRESIDENT, COOKS HIM BREAKFAST
September 24 2011
Moscow, Russia – It’s rare, almost unheard of actually, for an incumbent leader of a country to support another candidate for their own job especially when they wanted to keep it. In Russia, though, rare things tend to happen on a regular basis and exactly that has happened.
Dmitry Medvedev has thrown his support behind Vladimir Putin for President in next year’s election, one in which he himself had intended to run. That election is widely seen as a lock for the ruling Party, to which both candidates belong, meaning it is very likely that Medvedev will step aside and allow Putin to once again take charge of the country, or it could mean that he is so confident in his own support base that he feels that he doesn’t even need to vote for himself.
“I think it would be correct for the congress to support the candidacy of the party chairman, Vladimir Putin, to the post of president of the country,” Medvedev told the party at an annual congress. “Putin will be able to create a new, effective, young, energetic administration team and head the government of the Russian Federation.”
Medvedev was elected to his post in 2008 with Putin serving as Prime Minister. It has widely been assumed that Putin was in fact running the country with Medvedev serving as the figurehead. Putin changed the constitution to allow him another shot at the top job.
“I have personally never heard of one candidate supporting another in the election and for good reason. Generally if you throw your support behind someone else you don’t have much confidence in yourself as leader, and people won’t vote for you. That’s pretty standard in politics,” said Scrape TV International analyst Gustav Hander. “Russia is a different country though and they do things differently there. This is certainly different but not necessarily in a good way. I think, frankly, it will result in Putin winning the election which is not what Medvedev was going for I would imagine.”
The changes in the constitution will also a create a longer term for the President, six years instead of the standard four.
It’s believed likely that those rules will change again, whenever it suits Putin.
Putin had apparently decided this particular outcome a number of years ago, despite some protestation from Medvedev which now seems to have vanished.
“I would imagine, with this support, we will all be dealing with Putin once again in charge. It’s pretty tough to lose when you have the full support of your principal rival. I can’t imagine the people of Russia choosing any differently, of course it’s not like they have much of a choice,” continued Hander. “I mean they technically have choices but they know the consequences of voting for someone else, whether Putin gets in or not. He does not like dissent in any way and the last thing anyone wants is to be on the receiving end of his wrath. Medvedev I guess has learned that, not the people of Russia will learn that.”
Medvedev has also agreed to pick up Putin’s dry cleaning whenever the Prime Minister is too busy to do it himself.
Emil Uliya, International Correspondent
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