PACE hearing on the illegitimacy of Vladimir Putin as Russia's President and its legal consequences
PACE livestreamed a parliamentary hearing on the illegitimacy of Vladimir Putin as Russia's President and its legal consequences on Thursday 27 June at 2 p.m. CEST.
In an October 2023 resolution, the Assembly called on the international community not to recognise Mr Putin as Russia's legitimate President after his presidential term ending in May 2024, "and to cease all contact with him, except for humanitarian contact and in the pursuit of peace".
2020 constitutional changes which allowed Mr Putin to waive Russia's presidential term-limit had violated both the Russian Constitution and international legal principles, the Assembly pointed out, making his "re-election" invalid.
Participants in the hearing, which was jointly organised by PACE's Legal Affairs and Political Affairs Committees on the margins of the Assembly's summer plenary session in Strasbourg, included:
Mikhail Kasyanov, former Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
Dr Gleb Bogush, expert in public international law and Research Fellow, Cologne University, Germany
Veronika Bílková, Vice-President of the Council of Europe's Venice Commission and Co-Rapporteur of the Commission's interim opinion on constitutional amendments and the procedure for their adoption in the Russian Federation.
PACE brings together parliamentarians from the 46 nations of the Council of Europe and speaks for 700,000 Europeans.
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