Moscow: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin Wednesday said that he and President Dmitry Medvedev may both run in the 2012 presidential election, Itar-Tass news agency reported.
“Neither Dmitry Anatolyevich (Medvedev), nor I can rule out that each of us may run in the race,” Putin was quoted by the news agency as saying.
A final decision would be made after judging the real current economic, political and social situation on the eve of elections, Putin said.
Putin stressed that there is still one year to the election day and that “all this fuss around the elections does not help the normal work (of Kremlin).”
The Russian Prime Minister said a decision was to be announced too early, “half of the (presidential) administration and over half of the government would stop working expecting some changes.”
Meanwhile, Medvedev said Tuesday that he did not rule out the possibility of running for re-election and that decision would be taken “pretty shortly”.
Medvedev’s term would end in May 2012. He and Putin both repeatedly say they are not going to compete for the Kremlin but will agree in private on the matter.
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