Putin wins Russia election in landslide with no serious competition
Source: Reuters
March 18, 2024 12:09 AM EDT
MOSCOW, March 17 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin won a record post-Soviet landslide in Russia's election on Sunday, cementing his already tight grip on power in a victory he said showed Moscow had been right to stand up to the West and send its troops into Ukraine.
Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel who first rose to power in 1999, made it clear that the result should send a message to the West that its leaders will have to reckon with an emboldened Russia, whether in war or in peace, for many more years to come. The outcome means Putin, 71, is set to embark on a new six-year term that will see him overtake Josef Stalin and become Russia's longest-serving leader for more than 200 years if he completes it.
Putin won 87.8% of the vote, the highest ever result in Russia's post-Soviet history, according to an exit poll by pollster the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM). The Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (VCIOM) put Putin on 87%. First official results indicated the polls were accurate. The United States, Germany, the United Kingdom and other nations have said the vote was neither free nor fair due to the imprisonment of political opponents and censorship.
Communist candidate Nikolai Kharitonov finished second with just under 4%, newcomer Vladislav Davankov third, and ultra-nationalist Leonid Slutsky fourth, partial results suggested. Putin told supporters in a victory speech in Moscow that he would prioritise resolving tasks associated with what he called Russia's "special military operation" in Ukraine and would strengthen the Russian military.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russias-presidential-vote-starts-final-day-with-accusations-kyiv-sabotage-2024-03-17/
Roy Rolling
(6,917 posts)More than one ancient text is premised upon conditions on Earth deteriorating to a level where intervention is promised by a supernatural force, entity, or person. Conditions on Earth like the planet being damaged by careless humans or uncontrolled nature.
Conditions like right now, which is one reason hypocrites dont object to a scorched earth economic policythey think the more they damage the quicker something supernatural will happen to fix their mess.
And they can watch it on Fox-in-the-henhouse News, protected and snuggled in their survival bunker.
no_hypocrisy
(46,117 posts)A choice of taking what is available or nothing at all.
"The regional council must decide whether a private toll bridge is better than no bridge at allit's a Hobson's choice"
bullimiami
(13,095 posts)"polls accurate".
shameful.
BumRushDaShow
(129,062 posts)They are reporting what the Russian pollsters "claimed", not what they think the results might have actually been.
The actual OP article line -
Everyone knows it's Russian propaganda.
bullimiami
(13,095 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,062 posts)But then the risk is editorializing rather than reporting.
bdamomma
(63,868 posts)his political opponents, of course he wins. Bastard. What was all that talk about him having medical issues????
Irish_Dem
(47,115 posts)He just keeps himself in power.
I don't know why the press insists on making Putin a legitimate head of government.