2024-03-21 14:16:17
A dead opponent, puppet adversaries, hundreds of incidents, suspicions of massive fraud and a re-elected president with a score that Stalin would envy… In short, no problem according to Ella Pamfilova, the president of the Russian Central Electoral Commission, who went going so far as to describe the presidential election which saw Vladimir Putin re-elected with 87.28% of the vote as “historic”.
With an announced participation rate of 77.49%, Ella Pamfilova estimated that each voter who voted made “their contribution to the strengthening of Russia”. Acknowledging that her Commission had received “459 complaints in total about violations”, or “nothing at all”, the president nevertheless did not hesitate to boast of a “very clean” and “very responsible” electoral campaign. “.
“Russia today is one big united family”
Certainly, the former new president, in office for twenty-four years, was not alone in the running. Except that the three candidates facing him had neither the stature nor the desire to overshadow the master of the Kremlin. None of them opposed the offensive in Ukraine, nor the repression which eradicated the opposition and not one raised an eyebrow after the death in prison, in mid-February, of the black beast of Putin, Alexei Navalny. The only opponent to have attempted to run, Boris Nadejdine, saw his candidacy rejected.
“The elections showed that Russia today is one big united family,” said Vladimir Putin this Thursday in a video broadcast by public television. “We are following together the historic path we have chosen. We are sure of ourselves, of our strengths and of our future,” he concluded.
A family can perhaps be artificially united. Indeed, according to independent Russian media, cited by The worldthere are suspicions of massive fraud which would relate to the theft of 22 to 36 million votes in favor of Vladimir Putin, or between a third and half of the voters.
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