Russian President Vladimir Putin, the longest chief of the Kremlin from Joseph Stalin, said he was thinking of succession. He suggested that there could be a competition between several candidates.
Vladimir Putin, Russian President Photo: Getty Images
Putin, a former Lieutenant-Colonel KGB who took over the presidency on the last day of Boris In 1999, was president from 1999 to 2008, then prime minister to 2012 and then again from 2012 to the present, according to Reuters.
“I always think about it,” said Putin, 72 years old, when he was asked if he was thinking of succession in a film made by state television about Putin's century in front of Russia, entitled “Russia, the Kremlin, Putin, 25 years old.”
“Finally, the choice belongs to the people, the peoples. I think there should be a person, or rather more people, for the people to have a choice ”, Putin said.
There is no clear successor to Putin, although, according to the Russian Constitution, if the president cannot fulfill his duties, the prime minister, at present, Mihail Măşustin, would take over the presidential duties.
