{"id":127869,"date":"2020-01-15T14:21:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T13:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/01\/15\/putin-calls-for-constitution-changes-that-would-weaken-successor\/"},"modified":"2020-01-15T14:21:34","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T13:21:34","slug":"putin-calls-for-constitution-changes-that-would-weaken-successor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=127869","title":{"rendered":"Putin calls for constitution changes that would weaken successor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian president, due to step down in 2024, suggests two-term total limit in future Vladimir Putin has proposed changes to Russia\u2019s constitution that would limit the power of a potential successor if he steps down in 2024, indicating he may occupy a beefed-up role as Russia\u2019s prime minister or in the government\u2019s state council.In a televised speech before senior officials, Putin suggested amending Russia\u2019s constitution to limit a future president to two terms in office \u2013 he has served four \u2013 tightening residency requirements for presidential candidates, and letting parliament choose candidates for prime minister and the cabinet, in effect weakening the presidency. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jan\/15\/putin-calls-for-constitution-changes-that-would-weaken-successor\" target=\"_blank\">Putin calls for constitution changes that would weaken successor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian president, due to step down in 2024, suggests two-term total limit in future Vladimir Putin has proposed changes to Russia\u2019s constitution that would limit the power of a potential successor if he steps down in 2024, indicating he may occupy a beefed-up role as Russia\u2019s prime minister or in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=127869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}