Vladimir Putin presidential campaign, 2000

Vladimir Putin for President
Campaigned for Russian presidential election, 2000
Candidate Vladimir Putin
Incumbent Prime Minister and Acting President of Russia
Affiliation Independent
Status Announced:
13 January 2000
Won election:
26 March 2000
Key people Chief of staff:
Dmitry Medvedev[1]
Website putin2000.ru (archive)

The 2000 presidential campaign of Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of Russia, was announced on 13 January 2000, during his during his trip to Saint Petersburg.

This campaign was first presidential campaign of Vladimir Putin.

Background

Boris Yeltsin with Vladimir Putin on 31 December 1999 after Yeltsin's resignation

On 9 August 1999, Boris Yeltsin dismissed Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin and appointed Vladimir Putin as the new Prime Minister. On the same day, in his televised address, Yeltsin said that the best choice would be the election of Putin as President, in the election to be held in the summer of 2000.[2]

In December 1999, legislative elections were held and the Communist Party headed by Gennady Zyuganov won again. The second place was taken by the party Unity headed by Sergey Shoygu and supported by Vladimir Putin. Third place was taken by the party Fatherland - All Russia headed by former Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov and Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov.

In mid-1999, Primakov and Luzhkov were considered the frontrunners for the presidency.[3] Both were critical of Yeltsin, and he feared that they might prosecute him and his “Family” for corruption should they ascend to power.[4] Primakov had suggested that he would be “freeing up jail cells for the economic criminals he planned to arrest.”[5] In December 1999 Yury Luzhkov was re-elected as Mayor of Moscow, and announced that he would not compete for the presidency; Primakov pulled out two weeks after the legislative elections. In this regard, the main rival of Putin was Gennady Zyuganov.[6]

At noon, on 31 December 1999, Boris Yeltsin, in his televised address, announced his resignation. In accordance with article 92 of the Russian Constitution, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin became the Acting President, and early presidential elections were scheduled for March 2000.[1]

Campaign

Vladimir Putin arrived in Grozny on a SU-27 fighter jet

On 12 January 2000, in Moscow "President-hotel" took place the meeting of the initiative group to nominate Vladimir Putin as a presidential candidate. It included about 200 people, in particular President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev, Sergey Mironov, head of tax police Viktor Zubkov, etc.[1]

On 13 January, Vladimir Putin visited St. Petersburg State University, where he received a mantle and a diploma of honorary doctor of law. During his speech, he said that the day before"learned about the creation in Moscow initiative group." According to Putin, he has not yet planned to announce his readiness to run for President but "in this solemn atmosphere I would like to say that I am pleased to accept the proposal".[7]

On 7 February, representatives of the initiative group to nominate Vladimir Putin submitted 574,128 signatures to the Central Election Commission. After a random inspection, 1.48% of them were found to be unreliable (with a maximum of 15% established by law).

On 15 February, Vladimir Putin was registered as a presidential candidate, he was the third after Gennady Zyuganov and Alexey Podberezkin. On the same day, has been shaped by his campaign headquarters. Headquarters was headed by Dmitry Medvedev, who at that time held the position of Kremlin Deputy Chief of Staff. Among the leaders of the election campaign was also the FSB Deputy Director Viktor Cherkesov, chiefs of managements of Presidential Administration Alexander Abramov and Vladislav Surkov. The program and election strategy of the candidate was developed by the head of the strategic development fund Herman Gref and one of the heads of the effective policy fund Gleb Pavlovsky. One of Putin's proxies was the former Mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak, who died on the night of 19-20 February during a trip to Kaliningrad Oblast, undertaken as part of the election campaign. A public reception of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin was opened to organize communication with voters.[8]

On 25 February, Putin's election program "Open letter of Vladimir Putin to Russian voters" was published in three Federal Newspapers. In it, he stated three priorities of his policy: the fight against poverty, "protecting the market from illegal invasion, both official and criminal", the formation of foreign policy, "based on the national interests of their own country." According to Vladimir Putin, the slogan of his election campaign "it is a decent life,<...> in the sense that it is wanted and believed by the majority of my fellow citizens".

On 29 February, a draw was held for the distribution of free airtime on television and radio channels. During the election campaign, Vladimir Putin was the only presidential candidate who refused to participate in TV debates with other candidates.

On the morning of 20 March, a week before the election, Vladimir Putin flew from Krasnodar to Grozny on the su-27 combat training fighter, which increased his rating.[9]

Result

Vladimir Putin won the elections in the first round, gaining more than 52% of the vote.[10]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 Как Владимир Путин выдвигался на пост президента РФ. Досье
  2. ↑ Ельцин назначает Путина и.о. премьер-министра России: выпуск новостей НТВ 9 августа 1999 года
  3. ↑ Myers, S. L. (2015). The new Tsar: The rise and reign of Vladimir Putin.
  4. ↑ White, S., Oates, S., & McAllister, I. (2005). Media effects and Russian elections, 1999–2000. British Journal of political science, 35(02).
  5. ↑ Treisman, D. (2012). The return: Russia's journey from Gorbachev to Medvedev.
  6. ↑ ОТ ПУТИНА ДО ПУТИНА
  7. ↑ История досрочных выборов президента РФ в 2000 году
  8. ↑ Putin 2000 website archive
  9. ↑ Валерий ПЕТРОВ (Бостон) ВЫСШИЙ ПИЛОТАЖ ПУТИНА
  10. ↑ Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation
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