MOSCOW : The Russian president has signed legislation that allows him the right to run for two more consecutive terms. The constitutional amendment was endorsed by referendum last year.

The bill was approved by the lower house of Parliament or the State Duma, and the upper house of Parliament, the Federation Council, last month, according reports by Xinhua news.

Putin already served two consecutive terms as president from 2000  till 2008, when he had to step down according to the rules of the previous 1993 constitution.

After Putin signed it on Monday, the law, which was made following constitutional amendments adopted in a nationwide referendum in July 2020, was uploaded to the official Internet portal of legal information.

One of the 206 constitutional amendments stipulates that the limit of two presidential terms applies to the incumbent head of state, but without taking into account his previous terms.

In light of the amendment, the new law grants Putin the possibility of starting his presidency from scratch in 2024 and holding office for two more terms until 2036.

This rule does not concern Russians who earlier had the citizenship of another country which eventually was admitted to the Russian Federation in accordance with the federal constitutional law.

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