Each political party can recommend a non-party member presidential candidate. In addition, voters can nominate presidential candidates by setting up a voter group composed of more than 500 voters.
To become a formal candidate, it is necessary to collect the signature support form of 2 million voters. However, political parties entering the Duma can be directly and formally included in the presidential candidate list without collecting voter signature support sheets.
Election procedure: Russian citizens who have the right to vote are directly elected, and the same person may not serve as president for more than two consecutive times.
Only when there are more than two official presidential candidates can a presidential election be held. More than half of the voters must vote and the election is valid. The candidate who gets more than half of the votes of the voters is elected as the president of the Russian Federation. If no candidate gets more than half of the voters' votes in the first round of voting, a second round of voting will be held for the two candidates with the most votes. In the second round of voting, the candidate who got the most votes was elected President of the Russian Federation.