Putin took a day again

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday takes a second one-day vacation to meet his proxies, Interfax reports. The day before, the Central Election Commission registered the list of proxies of Putin. In total, it included 499 people, including famous public, cultural figures and athletes. The CEC also registered authorized representatives of United Russia, which became Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin and the head of the Ministry of Emergencies Sergey Shoigu.

Party persons will be agitated and will receive the right to appoint observers in polling stations, the authorized circle of activities is wider. It is expected that representatives of Putin will be determined from this list, who will replace it during the pre -election television battles. On Monday, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that "the backbone of this group has been formed, but its composition may be clarified."

On February 1, Putin has already taken a short -term vacation to meet with young activists of the Russian Union, who will be observers in the presidential election. At this meeting, Putin acted as a presidential candidate, and communication itself took place during a working day. Therefore, the prime minister "forced" was to take a vacation during the meeting.

On January 12, Peskov said that Putin would not take part in the pre -election television battles, since otherwise he will have to go on vacation. "Participation of presidential candidate Vladimir Putin in television pre -election debates is associated with the need to issue leave in accordance with the current legislation, which will certainly not allow him to fulfill the duties of the Government Chairman," Peskov said.

At the same time, Peskov said that "the airtime allotted to the presidential candidate Putin by law will be used in any case to bring his election program to voters." According to Peskov, Putin’s headquarters admit the option with the participation of representatives of the prime minister in the debate, but the final decision has not yet been made. "At the moment, the possibility of participating in the debate of representatives of President Putin, but he himself will make the final decision on this issue," Peskov said.

According to representatives of the Central Election Commission, laws allow the prime minister running for the presidency to remain in his post. According to the chairman of the CEC Vladimir Churov, Putin replaces the public position, but is not civil servant, so he has the right not to go on vacation during the presidential election campaign.

On January 31, a member of the Central Election Commission of Maya Grishina, who oversees the issues of compliance with electoral legislation, said Putin’s programmatic articles published in a number of media outlets cannot be considered agitation. "We do not see violations of the legislation. The violation is what is the campaign goal. In this case, the goal is information," said Grishina. “The Prime Minister, within the framework of his powers, sets out his position,” she added. According to her, an important feature is that the articles are published in different newspapers, which means "equal attention to different media." “This is interesting, including the media,” Grishina said.

On January 30, Peskov said that Vladimir Putin was not going to participate in his support in his support, Echo Moscow reports. "The plans of the head of government are not in the plans of the head of the government," said Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov. The action should take place on February 4 in Moscow under the slogan "We have something to lose!".

On January 24, Putin took part in a rally in Kemerovo on the territory of the former Khimmash plant. “People live here who can say anything right and anyone. But it is precisely on such people that you can really rely on. Our country always, especially in difficult times, relied on a strong shoulder of the miner and metallurgist,” Putin said, speaking at the rally.

"I regularly go to the mining regions - on holidays, and on the days of tragedies, and just on working occasions. I know that very serious people live here who know life from the inside, and not just its glossy side," the head of government said. The rally participants adopted the resolution "in support of the course of the Russian government."