Russian President Vladimir Putin is projected to win Russia's election in a post-Soviet document on Sunday, extending his rule for not less than one other six years, in accordance with exit polls.
Putin received 87.8 p.c of the vote, in accordance with an exit ballot as polls closed on Sunday by the Public Opinion Basis (FOM). That is the very best turnout in Russia's post-Soviet historical past, and the primary official outcomes recommend that FOM's early polls are correct, Reuters reported on Sunday.
A preliminary assertion from the Central Electoral Fee of Russia mentioned that Putin obtained about 87 p.c of the votes, contemplating him the winner of the election, in accordance with a number of media retailers. The fee additionally mentioned voter turnout was about 75 p.c throughout the nation.
The outcomes are poised to offer Putin his fifth time period since he was first elected as Russia's president greater than 20 years in the past in late 1999. The victory would make Putin Russia's longest-serving chief since Catherine the Nice in 1796, surpassing the document held by the previous Soviet. The top of the union Joseph Stalin, mentioned Reuters.
Earlier than Putin's rule, the Russian Structure allowed presidents to serve solely two consecutive four-year phrases, however amendments made in 2008 beneath Putin's rule prolonged the presidential time period to 6 years. Amendments in 2020 eliminated the rule that presidents couldn’t serve greater than two phrases, per Reuters.
FOM exit polls confirmed communist candidate Nikolai Kharitonov trailing in second with just below 5 p.c of the vote, whereas Vladislav Davankov of the New Folks occasion got here third with greater than 3 p.c of the vote . Leonid Slutsky, an ultra-nationalist, got here fourth, in accordance with exit polls.
Putin's victory is just not a shock, with two different official opponents beforehand barred from the vote as a consequence of opposition to the invasion of Ukraine.
On Sunday, the election drew a large demonstration of 1000’s who tried to vote in opposition to Putin.
Putin has confronted rising opposition for the reason that dying of the Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny, who died in a distant Arctic penal colony final month. Navalny authorized the deliberate protest days earlier than he died.
The Kremlin has rejected accusations by different Russian opposition leaders and Western governments that Putin is responsible for Navalny's dying.
Navalny's widow, Yulia Navalnaya, took half in Sunday's rally and vowed to proceed the battle in opposition to Putin.
“Thanks very a lot to the great and finest individuals who have been with me right now from 12 o'clock for six hours, aspect by aspect in line on the voting middle. Thanks for coming, crying, laughing. Thanks for shouting endlessly” Yulia , we’re with you” and “Navalny” and informed me that I gave you hope once more,” she. he wrote in a post on social media.
“In actual fact, after all, it's the opposite means round – it's you who provides me hope that every part is just not in useless, that we’ll battle. Thanks to everybody who got here to each metropolis on the planet. You’re my help and my help. I really like you all very a lot,” he added.
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