Putin wins another term but what happens in 2024?

– President for life –

Putin could choose to follow China’s Xi Jinping in abolishing presidential term limits, thus allowing him to remain president for life.

“I don’t think he will refuse power in 2024 even if he has had enough, he is (already) visibly tired,” said political analyst Dmitry Oreshkin.

“He can’t leave because he does not believe that anyone will protect him,” he added, saying that Putin has built a system in which everything depends on who is at the top.

So far, Putin has ruled out ruling Russia for life.

“I never changed the constitution, especially for it to benefit me and I do not have this kind of intention today,” he told NBC in March.

Oreshkin said Putin does not want to be remembered for changing the constitution and that if he were to remain president for life, it would be done “more elegantly” than in China.