🗞 Russia elects Putin again as president with more than 70 percent
The Russian leader Vladimir Putin can probably count on a clear victory in the presidential election. The first numbers show a majority of 72 percent of votes for him, according to an announcement of the Central Electoral Commission from Sunday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has been confirmed in office for another six years on Sunday, thanks to at least 72% of votes. Putin has not published a program before the election and still said after his vote in Moscow that he is "convinced of the correctness of the program that I propose to the country".
Independent election observers reported manipulations; the Golos movement counted more than 2600 incidents by the evening. Surveillance cameras recorded how bulks of ballots were stuffed into urns in some election places.
The participation was slightly higher than six years ago, officially 65.3 percent back then. The goal set by the Kremlin for this years election that Putin should get 70 percent of the votes with 70 percent of participation.
The Communists candidate Pawel Grudinin gained nearly 16 percent of the votes after first results. The remaining six candidates were much weaker. Putin's main opponent, Alexei Navalny, had not been admitted due to convictions in political trials. Hence the anti-corruption politician has called for a boycott of the "non-election".
Source: Reuters, dpa
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So called "independent" observers are in fact paid anti-Putin agitators and propagandists.
Putin has no need to cheat, his support is genuine.
Navalny is a Washington regime puppet with no chance of being elected, no matter how desired by handlers and propagandists.
Okay, but which Putin the one the has cut on his face or the Scar free face one?
As a Russian, I have to say that Putin has no opponents now and all these "falsifications" are nonsense, with the lead that he has. My friend was a volunteer at one of the elective districts and she herself saw that Putin gained almost 3k votes when the second place had around 350.
He may not be perfect but as a president, he is lesser of all evils.