Putin’s headquarters on election of 2018 can lead Anton Vaino
The election headquarters of Vladimir Putin in the presidential elections of 2018 will be headed by the head of his administration Anton Vaino, said two of the interlocutor of “Vedomosti” close to the presidential administration, and agrees the interlocutor in administration. The concept of the work of the headquarters will depend on how Putin will run for President.
While the most realistic scenario — self-promotion, I wrote earlier “Newspaper.ru”, and was confirmed by the interlocutors “Vedomosti”. In this case, Putin needs to maintain a group of not less than 500 voters, then the candidate will need to collect in their support 300 000 signatures. The name of the head of the headquarters will be named after the creation of an initiative group that will nominate a candidate, and operational headquarters will begin after the candidate opens election account, says a source close to the presidential administration: “Now by default all think it will be Vaino. But that’s not the subject matter experts at meetings, the decision will still accept Putin himself, and it might be different”. Traditionally, the headquarters is headed by someone from the administration, but there are exceptions, he adds. Vaino candidacy for the post of head of a campaign headquarters seems logical, agrees the interlocutor in presidential administration.
The appointment of the head of staff of the head of administration is one of the standard schemes, says ex-Federal official: “Given the traditional functionality Vaino associated with the maintenance schedule of the President, this option is the more likely. Besides, he was at the headquarters of Putin in 2012, the Chief of staff is responsible for campaign strategy and is a compendium of all programmes and projects”. According to the interlocutor, Dmitry Medvedev and Dmitry Kozak headed the headquarters of Putin’s first two presidential elections, because he was “trusted” people. Pointless to appoint someone who are not doing it in reality, as it was with the film Director Stanislav Govorukhin in 2012, said another person close to the presidential administration.
Vaino, a native from the foreign Ministry, worked in the presidential Protocol from 2003 To 2007, he was appointed Deputy chief of staff of the government, and from December 2011 to may 2012 managed a staff of the White house. After that, Vaino after Putin returned to the Kremlin where he held the post of first Deputy head of the presidential administration, and from 2016 — in-charge.
The interlocutors of “Vedomosti” previously called Vaino man “Putin personally” equidistant from the pure politics and security forces.
Neither Putin himself nor his press Secretary Dmitry Peskov did not comment on the forthcoming election campaign, citing the fact that it has not yet started and no decision on this matter in the Kremlin have not yet been adopted.