Former speaker of the Russian Federation Council Sergei Mironov said on Monday that President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin may propose another candidate for presidential elections in 2012.
"There are three equal scenarios; first, Medvedev; second, Putin; and third, some third person whose candidacy has already been coordinated by them (the president and premier)," Mironov said.
He said that Putin and Medvedev had already agreed upon everything but will not make their decision public before the start of the election campaign because if one if them is announced as a candidate, the other becomes a lame duck.
Mironov, who currently heads the State Duma faction of the A Just Russia party, said that Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov, Liberal Democratic Party head Vladimir Zhirinovsky and tycoon Mikhail Prokhorov, who recently became leader of the Right Cause party, are likely to join the presidential campaign in 2012.
