election threat?

so - he instructs his party to boycott parliamentary committees and his party's parliamentary committee members to cause all sorts of procedural delays, and then he says the system is deadlocked (because of the opposition, naturally) and says he has no choice but to call an election. boo hoo.
i suppose he's just doing what he needs to so he can get what he really wants - absolute power to rival the mighty Putin. And here I thought he was only copying the Nazi party's strategy book. Silly me!