Quote Originally Posted by Ramil View Post
As far as I know (I cold be mistaken and I'm too lazy to google it out), but France had 7 years for 1 presidental term, no?
I am too lazy too.. it wasn't obvious from the Wiki entry. But I really don't think so. They always have elections there.... Possibly it's elections for different things...?
French elections are covered quite extensively in the British press, that's why I know about this. And when they are not feuding it out for an election, someone is organising a kickass strike that literally shuts down the whole country. Politics in France is really interesting. I am almost certain that elections are more often than 7 years. Does anyone else know?

United Russia will soon be disbanded/reorganized/reformed. I doubt they will last till 2013. The 'purge' is coming. It failed in December, even though they'd won, they failed nevertheless and I doubt there are still enough reasons to justify their existence. There will be a brand new party... and I think Prokhorov will play a major role in this.
What makes you think that?

Would Putin really allow that to happen? If he could not stop it, what do you think he would do?
I mean, he would officially be president, representing that party, right?

Is this a common opinion?