Vladimir Putin 2018 presidential campaign
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The 2018 presidential campaign of Vladimir Putin was announced on 6 December 2017, during Putin's speech at the GAZ automobile plant.[3] He is the 4th and incumbent President of Russia; previously he was the 33rd Prime Minister of Russia, 2nd President of Russia and 4th Federal Security Service Director.
Campaigned for | 2018 Russian presidential election |
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Candidate | Vladimir Putin Incumbent President of Russia (2000–2008 and 2012–present) Prime Minister of Russia (1999–2000 and 2008–2012) Director of Federal Security Service (1998–1999) |
Affiliation | Independent |
Status | Announced: 6 December 2017 Official nominee: 26 December 2017 Registered candidate: 6 February 2018 Won election: 18 March 2018 |
Headquarters | 36 New Arbat Avenue Moscow[1] |
Key people | Co-chairs: Yelena Shmelyova Sergey Kogogin Alexander Rumyantsev Chief of staff: Andrey Yarin Press Secretary: Andrey Kondrashov |
Receipts | 400,030,934.98 roubles[2] |
Slogan | (Strong President, Strong Russia) |
Website | putin2018.ru |
This campaign is his fourth. Prior to this he successfully participated in elections in 2000, 2004 and 2012.
Vladimir Putin had consistently scored higher than 40% in opinion polls since the last presidential election. According to an opinion poll conducted in December 2017 by Gallup International, if Putin was not to be on the ballot, 46% wouldn't have known for whom to vote and 19% would have made the ballot paper invalid.[4] Putin was re-elected as the President of the Russian Federation on 18 March 2018.