2024-03-15T18:27:12+00:00
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/ On Friday, Russian public tv broadcast the second Russian President Vladimir Putin forged his vote by way of the Web on the primary day of a presidential election through which the opposition was absent and which is predicted to finish along with his re-election for a brand new time period of six years.
Putin started strolling in direction of an workplace after which sat down in entrance of a pc with two Russian flags in entrance of him earlier than a written message appeared on the display saying: “Thanks, you voted efficiently.”
The Russians headed to the polls on Friday to take part within the three-day presidential elections, on account of which Putin, de facto and within the absence of any opposition, will win a brand new time period.
The outgoing president faces three candidates who oppose neither the offensive in Ukraine nor the repression that has worn out all opposition, culminating within the dying of Alexei Navalny in jail in mid-February.
Earlier than the beginning of voting, Putin, who has been in energy for twenty-four years, urged his residents to not “deviate from the trail” and vote throughout this “tough interval,” referring to the repercussions of the invasion of Ukraine.
Voting will proceed for 3 days, and contains areas in Ukraine that Russia declared annexed following the invasion it started in February 2022, and the pro-Moscow separatist area of Transdniestria in Moldova.
The primary day of the elections witnessed acts of sabotage in polling stations, and the authorities introduced in separate statements the arrest of eight folks attributable to acts of sabotage in polling stations.
Putin’s victory in these elections would enable him to stay in energy till 2030. Due to the 2020 constitutional modification, he’ll have the ability to run once more and stay in workplace till 2036, through which he’ll flip 84 years previous.