More than 50% of the votes have been counted so far, election commission saysi
🔴Putin appears set for landslide win – Russia’s election commission
Screens in the Information Center of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation with information about the voting process in the presidential elections of the Russian Federation. © Sputnik / Maxim Blinov
🔴Incumbent President Vladimir Putin is expected to win this year’s presidential election, with nearly 90% of the vote, Russia’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has reported.
🔴According to the CEC, more than 50% of the votes have been counted as of 23:00 Moscow time and Putin is leading the race with an estimated 87.3%.
🔴Exit polls earlier showed similar trends, with the head of state expected to win the election with 87.8%.
🔴His opponent from the Communist Party, Nikolay Kharitonov, is expected to come in second with 4.7%, followed by Vladislav Davankov of the New People party (3.6%) and Leonid Slutsky of the Liberal Democrats (2.5%).
🔴The exit survey was conducted among 466,324 voters at polling stations across the country.
🔴This year’s election has clocked a historic high voter turnout, which topped 74%, according to data from the CEC.
🔴The processing of ballots has already ended in several Russian regions. Putin has gained 94.12% of the votes in Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) and over 95% in Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), two of Russia’s new regions where citizens are voting for the first time.
🔴The results from the Republics of Tyva, Khakassia and Yakutia, the regions of Zaporozhye, Kherson and Khabarovsk, and from Chukotka Autonomous Region also show the serving president leading the four candidates, with roughly 90% of the vote.
A gloating Vladimir Putin has railed against the West in a speech following his apparent victory in Russia's sham presidential election tonight.
The Russian despot is on course to stay in power for another six years after exit polls suggested he had received 88 per cent of the vote in an election overshadowed by the death and imprisonment of opposition figures.
The 71-year-old strongman ranted that 'there is no democracy in the West' after he was questioned about the validity of the election by journalists, before claiming Russia's elections were more transparent than those in the United States.
Putin, who will have ruled for 30 years by the time his next term finishes - longer than the murderous 29-year reign of Josef Stalin - added that law enforcement would take action against those who spoiled their ballot papers in protest.
The news sparked condemnation from the West, with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky saying Putin was 'sick for power and is doing everything to rule forever'.
Source : Daily Mail
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