Zhirinovsky wants Putin to run for 3rd term

Intefax ^ | Aug 3 2005

[lizol]

Zhirinovsky wants Putin to run for 3rd term.

MOSCOW. Aug 3 (Interfax) - Russian nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky on Wednesday suggested constitutional changes to permit the same person to serve as president for a maximum of three terms, rather than the current two, and extend the term of office to seven years.

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), led by Zhirinovsky, who is also Duma deputy chairman, "proposes that a referendum on amendments to the constitution of the country be held before the presidential election of 2008 then [President Vladimir] Putin would be able to stay for a third term and remain in office not for four, but for seven years," the LDPR press service quoted Zhirinovsky as saying.

[JimWforBush]

Sounds like progress towards another dictatorship to me.

[MinorityRepublican]

Sounds like progress towards another dictatorship to me.

Putin is a strong and stable leader, exactly what Russia needed after the end of the Cold War. Our Constitutional Republic would not work for them because Mobs or other criminal gangs will take advantage of anarchy in Russia.

[cripplecreek]

Is Zhirinovsky the guy who wants to prevent Russian women from leaving Russia?

[lizol]

I think I've heard something about it.

[JimWforBush]

Putin is a strong and stable leader, exactly what Russia needed after the end of the Cold War

I don't disagree with you on that. I just think that if they go for a constitutional amendment, it will lead to the slippery slope area, in a matter of speaking.

[GarySpFc]

Zhirinovsky is not simply a nut, but a super-nut. Most Russians cannot stand the man. My Russian wife says he is insane.

[cripplecreek]

I asked a Russian friend about him awhile back. She spit out a couple of words in Russian that didn't sound real flattering and told me that he was to be ignored.

[Tailgunner Joe]

He once beat up a female legislator in the duma and then said she wanted it.

[Tailgunner Joe]

Hands off our women, Russian MP tells foreigners - MOSCOW - Scandalised by the fact that some of Russia's most beautiful women are opting to marry foreigners, the ultra-nationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky is backing a bill that would make them think twice before exchanging vows with a non-Russian. His party, the incongruously named Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, has drafted a draconian marriage bill that will now be considered by the Duma, the Russian Parliament. It envisages severe penalties for Russian girls or women who choose "unpatriotically" to wed a foreigner, a trend the party believes is robbing the country's gene pool of its greatest resource. In rhetoric uncomfortably reminiscent of that used by the Nazis, the party believes that the large number of Russian women taking foreign spouses is a threat to national security that risks undermining Russian identity and "the purity of the Russian race". It is proposing punishing such female "traitors" by stripping them of their citizenship, deporting them to the country of their new husband and never allowing them to return. The party also wants them to feel the pain in their pockets and is suggesting that their Russian assets be automatically distributed among their relatives or given to the state.

[Altair333]

Part of Zhirinovki's platform is to secure the return of Alaska to Russia- his maps of Russia even include Alaska. He also promised to destroy Germany with nuclear weapons if elected president.

[lizol]

And now another insanity (probably the worst one): Putin for the 3rd term.

[romus]

Putin is a strong and stable leader, exactly what Russia needed after the end of the Cold War.

It's a difference whether you mean strong and stable leader like Abraham Lincoln (who was a strong and virtuous character) or maybe like a South American caudillo?

As far as I know the US didn't need any "strong leader" in this sense after the Revolution of 1783.