President Vladimir Putin visits his campaign headquarters in Moscow on March 18, 2018. He has no successor and political competition. PHOTO | SPUTNIK | ALEXEY DRUZHININ | AFP
Without constitutional reform, Putin will not be able to run for a fifth time — Russian law forbids serving more than two consecutive terms.
Putin, who will turn 72 in 2024, could decide to leave the Kremlin after 24 years in power, making way for a successor.
Russian politics is currently dominated by infighting between rival clans of technocrats and the "siloviki" — representatives of the security services and the army.
MOSCOW,
In power for almost two decades, Vladimir Putin predictably won a fourth Kremlin term in Russia's presidential election on Sunday, extending his long rule for another six years.
