With 87% of the votes, he has achieved his biggest electoral victory since coming to power in 2000, despite the war in Ukraine and Western economic sanctions.
The Russian president, Vladimir Putinwill remain in the Kremlin until 2030 after achieving the 87.5% of the votes According to the counting of 32% of the votes, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) has reported at the end of the three days of voting.
Putin, 71, has achieved his greatest victory electoral since he came to power in 2000, despite the war in Ukraine and Western economic sanctions.
He will, therefore, continue to be president of this country for another six yearsafter which he will be able to run for re-election again, since in 2020 he reformed the clauses of the Constitution that prevented him from continuing in the Kremlin.
The second most voted candidate has been the communist Nikolai Kharitonov with 4% of the votes, followed by the representative of the Gente Nueva party, Vladislav Davankov, with 3.86%. The last candidate is the ultranationalist Leonid Slutski, who accounts for 3% of the ballots.
The opposition to the Kremlin has not been able to participate in the elections, since the CEC did not register its candidates for various technical reasons or formal defects, for supporting peace in Ukraine.
The CEC, which did not invite Western observers, today denied that there were any serious irregularitiesalthough independent experts and the press in exile have denounced several cases of electoral manipulation.
The stake With three hours left before the closing of the schools, it exceeded 74%, which is expected to mark a historic high since the first direct presidential elections in Russia held in 1991.
The elections have been marked by drone attacks and the Ukrainian border incursions, which have caused several deaths and have led Putin to accuse Kiev of trying to torpedo his re-election.
Source: Eitb

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