Medvedev promotes Putin for president

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Medvedev promotes Putin for president

At the convention of the United Russia party in Moscow, President Dmitry Medvedev proposed Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to run for the presidency in 2012.
“I consider it to be the right move for the congress to support party’s leader Vladimir Putin as a presidential candidate,” announced the Russian president.

Vladimir Putin, who is the leader of the United Russia Party, addressing the delegates at the gathering has called on them to put Dmitry Medvedev at the top of the list of candidates at the forthcoming parliamentary elections in December 2011.
Putin also said that he had co-ordinated future plans with the President “a long time ago.”

President Medvedev complied with the request to head the election list of the United Russia Party and explained the move by saying, “The Party has been actively supporting the presidential course.”

“The decision we promote to the congress is a circumspect one and even more than that – we actually discussed this possibility when the tandem had just been formed,” Medvedev confessed, pointing out that the correctness of the chosen strategy has been proven over years.

“The choice remains that of the people of Russia,” Medvedev said. “We know why we taking part in the election – we do so to win them.”