Gorbachev Calls For Putin To Resign

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mikhail-gorbachevMikhail Gorbachev called on Prime Minister Vladimir Putin not to seek a third term as president next year.

He told the Moscow Echo radio: “I would advise Vladimir Putin to leave now. He has had three terms: two as president and one as prime minister. Three terms – that is enough.”

Mr Gorbachev, 80, has been virulently critical of the elections that took place on December 4. Soon after the poll he said that the results of the poll should be annulled and new elections held due to “numerous falsifications and rigging.”

“The results do not reflect the will of the people,” Mr Gorbachev said at the time. “Therefore I think they [Russia’s leaders] can only take one decision – annul the results of the election and hold new ones.”

The former president was considering attending the march in central Moscow today, to which thousands ventured. He was, however, unable to appear but passed his greetings to the protestors.

President Dmitry Medvedev this week announced reforms to appease the protestors – including resuming elections for regional governors – but the changes fell far short of demands for a re-run of the legislative polls.

In an unexpected boost to the protestors, an advisory Kremlin rights panel said overnight that the new parliament had been discredited by the accusations of fraud and that fresh elections should be called.

The ruling United Russia party won less than half the vote in the elections and lost 77 seats as fatigue has set in with the rule of Putin who, if re-elected as president, could stay in power until 2024.

{The Telegraph/Matzav.com Newscenter}


3 COMMENTS

  1. Mr gorbachov
    Watch what you say. Many of your former Prime Ministers caught Nasty Colds and died from them. I think its called the KGB cold

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