James Myers of OAN
3:29 PM – Monday, March 18, 2024
Russian President Vladimir Putin will remain in power for the next six years after winning a landslide victory with no real opposition to him on Monday.
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With this victory, Putin stands to become Russia’s longest-serving president in more than 200 years.
But there was an apparent protest against the vote in the election, which came just a month after opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Putin’s biggest political rival, died under suspicious circumstances in a prison in Russia’s far north. .
Russia’s Central Election Commission said nearly 100% of votes were counted in all constituencies on Monday, giving Putin 87.29% of the vote. Chairwoman Ella Pamfilova said nearly 76 million voters cast their votes for Putin, the highest number of votes in Putin’s history.
At a press conference on Sunday, President Putin praised the result as a sign of the country’s “confidence” in him.
Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the “incredible level” of support for President Putin was “the best sign that all speculation about illegal elections is groundless in reality.”
“Of course, we have a lot of challenges ahead of us. But I want to be clear to everyone: when we are unified, no one can scare us, our will or our sense of self. “We have failed in the past and we will fail in the future,” Putin said at a press conference at election headquarters in Moscow early Monday, hours after the polls closed. He spoke at
Additionally, there was reportedly very limited independent vote monitoring during the election period.
But many of Putin’s critics in the United States and elsewhere say the Russian leader won unfairly by distorting the election and eliminating his opponents.
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