CNN, September 11, 2023
“No one will be able to compete” with Russian President Vladimir Putin if he decides to run for reelection in 2024, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Monday.
Peskov, quoted by the state-run media Russia-24, claimed Putin “enjoys absolute support from the population.”
“The president has not yet announced that he will nominate his candidacy. But if we assume that the president does, then it is obvious that in our country at the current stage no one can really compete with the President,” Peskov was quoted as saying.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un left Pyongyang on Sunday for Russia by private train, the country's state media reported Tuesday local time.
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Canceling an election because of the presumed popularity of the front runner is not the way a democratic government behaves