Russian President Vladimir Putin has set a precedence for the smooth transfer of power by issuing a special decree introducing the official status of 'President-elect'.
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin, those tenure ends in May, has set a precedence for the smooth transfer of power by issuing a special decree introducing the official status of 'President-elect' to fill procedural void for two months' transition period in the post-Soviet history.
A day after the March 2 presidential poll, swept by his chosen successor Dmitry Medvedev, Putin signed the decree introducing for the first time the official status of "Newly Elected and Not Yet Serving President" of Russian Federation, influential business and political daily 'Kommersant' said.
In the modern history of Russia, there were no mechanisms for transfer of power from one elected President to another as the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin was initially elected in 1991 as the head of Soviet Russia and was re-elected in 1996.
In 1999, Yeltsin stepped down and in accordance with the Constitution his Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was appointed acting President with immediate effect, who later was elected twice in 2000 and 2004.
Putin's decree sets the precedent and fills the procedural void for the two months transition period. Medvedev is to take the oath of office on May 7.
"The Presidential administration is ordered in this document for the purposes of regulating the status of the newly elected and not yet serving President of the Russian Federation and to ensure the activities of the newly elected and not yet serving President of the Russian Federation," the daily reported.
Under the decree, the presidential administration will simultaneously work for the incumbent and president-elect, and Federal Guards Service - equivalent of India's SPG, has been ordered to provide President-elect appropriate protection.
In addition, the Federal Guards Service is to provide an official residence to the President-elect.
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