page_title: Vladimir Putin 2018 presidential campaign
section_title: Announcement
hierarchical_section_title: Vladimir Putin 2018 presidential campaign / Background / Announcement
caption_attribution_description: English: Putin announced the nomination of candidates for President of the Russian Federation at the GAZ plant on December 6, 2017.
context_page_description: The 2018 presidential campaign of Vladimir Putin was announced on 6 December 2017, during Putin's speech at the GAZ automobile plant. He is the 4th and incumbent President of Russia; previously he was the 33rd Prime Minister of Russia, 2nd President of Russia and 4th Federal Security Service Director.
  This campaign is his fourth. Prior to this he successfully participated in elections in 2000, 2004 and 2012.
  Vladimir Putin had consistently scored higher than 40% in opinion polls since the last presidential election. According to opinion poll conducted in December 2017 by Gallup International, if Putin was not to be on the ballot 46% wouldn't have known for whom to vote and 19% would have made the ballot paper invalid. Putin was re-elected as the President of the Russian Federation on 18 March 2018.
context_section_description: It was assumed that Putin would announce his nomination on 14 December 2017, during his annual press conference. However, at the beginning of December 2017, some experts said that Putin would announce his participation in the elections on 6 December, during the Volunteer of Russia 2017 awards. Putin's press Secretary Dmitry Peskov, commenting on these reports said that Putin could announce the nomination any day. On 6 December, after the presentation of awards, Putin declined to answer the question about participation in the elections, saying that in the near future he will decide on whether to participate in the election. A few hours later, speaking to the workers of the GAZ automobile plant, Putin announced that he will again run for president.
caption: Putin announces his nomination as a candidate for the 2018 Russian presidential election.
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