White, S.L. (2001) The Russian presidential election, March 2000. Electoral Studies, 20(3), pp. 484-489. (doi: 10.1016/S0261-3794(00)00053-6)
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Abstract
Boris Yeltsin became Russia's first elected president in June 1991. With support from the country's richest bankers and the media they controlled, he won again in a two-round contest in June and July 1996. Under the terms of the Russian constitution a president can be elected for no more than two consecutive terms. However, strictly speaking, Yeltsin had been elected in 1991 to the presidency of a republic that was still part of the USSR; his election in 1996 had been to the presidency of an independent state under a new and rather different constitution. The Constitutional Court nevertheless ruled that Yeltsin's election in 1996 had to count as the beginning of a second, not a first, term of office. This meant that he could not legally stand again when his term expired in the summer of 2000, so some form of political succession was unavoidable.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | White, Professor Stephen |
Authors: | White, S.L. |
College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Politics |
Journal Name: | Electoral Studies |
ISSN: | 0261-3794 |
ISSN (Online): | 1873-6890 |
Published Online: | 08 June 2001 |
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