Did Vladimir Putin drop by his supporters? According to a local Russian elected official, the tide is turning for the president, in power since the early 2000s. To the point that Russian elites now want to “get rid of him”, tired of his unchallenged presidency. .
“For people to be able to change anything (in Russia), it takes a long time and the elites have to decide to get rid of Putin,” Dmitry Plyuga, a local elected official in St. Petersburg, told BFMTV.
“I think the elites already want it and even the whole world wants it. But the Russian elites have not yet understood how to do it,” says the exile in Georgia.
The support of the political elite for Putin is declining
Dmitry Plyuga argues that Russian officials are currently experiencing a form of weariness in the face of the undivided power imposed by Vladimir Putin.
“In Russia, any protest, any disagreement with the official line is very severely repressed,” he explains.
As a result, “the support of political elites for Vladimir Putin is very low” at present, he believes.
growing disputes
At the head of the country since 2000, apart from a parenthesis as prime minister between 2008 and 2012, Vladimir Putin rules Russia with an iron fist.
But seven months into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and with many Russians questioning the launch of a major mobilization, Vladimir Putin is weakened.
Several local elected officials, generally pro-Kremlin, have even publicly expressed doubts in recent weeks about the conflict against Ukraine, given the successes of the kyiv troops.
Last September, Dmitry Palyuga had already accused Vladimir Putin of “high treason”. He had felt that he was “destroying” the Russian military and its economy in the conflict against Ukraine and called for his dismissal.
Source: BFM TV
