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2024-03-18 14:29 United News Network 24 Hours Around the Corner After noon on March 17, 2024, a protest was held near the polling station of the Russian Embassy in Berlin, showing…
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The results of the election are already known: Putin was elected as the Russian president for the fifth time, and the occupied areas of Ukraine will also vote
“There is no doubt that Putin will be re-elected as the president of Russia.” On March 17, Russian President Putin won a record 88% of the vote and was re-elected for a fifth term without any doubt. The power of the country that he has grasped is once again stable – Putin is the Soviet Union After Stalin, the longest-ruling ruler in Russia. Since he first became president in 2000, although he was changed to prime minister for four years due to term limits, he has actually always been the highest power in Russia. The turnout for this election exceeded 70%. Putin claimed that this showed that he had overwhelming public support and that the main challenge for the next six-year term was “to achieve the goals of Ukraine’s special military operations and strengthen national defense capabilities.” In this election, Putin’s political opponents have long been imprisoned, and the remaining three candidates are only symbolic. Therefore, other countries, including Ukraine, the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, have commented that the Russian election is “neither free nor free. fair”.
The voting period for this Russian general election lasts for 3 days in Russia. The areas occupied by the Russian army in Ukraine are also included in the voting scope and have a longer voting period (10 days). Social media is full of people urging people in the occupied areas to vote. advertise. The BBC cited news reports that pro-Russian collaborators in the occupied areas, accompanied by armed soldiers, went door-to-door with ballot boxes; another election committee official was arrested in the occupied town of Berdyansk on March 17. kill.
The election turnout exceeded 70%. Putin won the election overwhelmingly with a record 88% of the votes. He will enter the next six-year term. This time he will serve as president until 2030, by which time he will surpass Stalin (who was in power from 1924 to 1953). died in 2000) and became the longest-ruling leader in modern Russia; Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin as acting president on December 31, 1999, and later became the official president on May 7, 2000. Due to the two-term limit of the Russian Constitution, Putin changed to Prime Minister from 2008 to 2012, but in fact he has been the highest power in Russia for the past 24 years.
Putin was re-elected for a fifth term on March 17 with a record 88% of the vote.Photo/AFP
Since Putin has changed the Russian presidential term rules and reset his previous term to zero, he can still run for a new six-year term in 2030 when he turns 78.
Putin delivered a speech in the Kremlin after the results were announced, claiming that the high turnout showed he had overwhelming public support, noting that the main challenge in the new term was “to achieve the goals of special military operations (in Ukraine)” , as well as strengthening our defense capabilities and armed forces,” Putin said: “All the plans we have made to develop Russia will definitely be implemented and the goals will definitely be achieved.”
In his speech, Putin also mentioned Alexey Navalny publicly for the first time a month after his “number one political rival” died. Putin confirmed that he had considered exchanging Navalny for prisoners in exchange for being imprisoned in the West. prisoner on the condition that Navalny would never return to Russia, “but unfortunately, that’s what happened (referring to Navalny’s death).” This remark may be interpreted by the outside world as an attempt to refute Putin’s order to kill Navalny. Varney’s guess.
In addition, Putin claimed that Russia’s democracy is more transparent than many Western countries, and said that his governance has more legitimacy than Ukrainian President Zelensky. Under martial law in Ukraine, Zelensky postponed the scheduled 2024 meeting. election. Although Putin claims that Russia’s presidential election is more advanced than that of the United States and praises Russia’s use of online voting systems (Russian officials claim that 8 million voters use online voting), in fact the Kremlin has already made it illegal to criticize Putin or start a war between Ukraine and Russia behavior and prevented any opposition candidates who might challenge Putin from running, so the outcome of the election was already a foregone conclusion before it even took place.
In addition to Putin, there are three candidates, namely Nikolai Kharitonov representing the Communist Party, Leonid Slutsky of the Liberal Democratic Party, and Vladislav Davankov of the New People’s Party. Davankov), these three people are called “opposition within the system”. Their parties support the Putin government. In this election, it can be said that they have only a symbolic presence and will not pose a real challenge to Putin.
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The outside world also evaluated the election as lacking fairness. Zelensky said on Twitter before Putin delivered his speech:
“The Russian dictator is conducting a mock election and the whole world knows it… He is just addicted to power and doing everything he can to rule forever… There is no legitimacy to this mock election and there can be no such mock election. This man should be tried in The Hague. “
The White House National Security Council also stated:
“Given how Putin has imprisoned political opponents and prevented others from running against him, it is clear that this election was neither free nor fair.”
The German Foreign Ministry also stated that Russia’s “pseudo-election” was neither free nor fair, and that Putin relied on censorship, repression and violence to hold “invalid” elections in the occupied territories of Ukraine; British Foreign Secretary David Cameron also said Said: “With illegal elections on Ukrainian territory, lack of choice for voters, and no independent European security organization supervision, the vote in Russia has ended. This is not what a free and fair election looks like.” The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs also pointed out: “The (Russian) vote has ended It was carried out under conditions of extreme social repression, making it impossible to make free and democratic choices.”
Russian protesters still managed to express their opposition peacefully by going to polling stations at noon on March 17 to cast invalid votes, sabotage votes, or vote for one of the three candidates besides Putin, with the sole purpose of attracting the vote. Putin won the vote; overseas protesters also gathered at polling stations at Russian embassies in various places. Navalny’s widow Yulia also participated in a noon protest at the Russian Embassy in Berlin. She said she had waited in line for six hours. team, wrote Navalny’s name on the ballot and praised all those present because they gave her hope.
The Financial Times reported, citing the independent monitoring organization OVD-Info, that Russian police arrested more than 65 people on March 17 for charges including writing “Say no to war” on ballot papers and wearing T-shirts with Navalny’s name on them. shirt and tried to put Navalny’s photo into the ballot box.
Russian President Putin.Photo/AFP Russia in the past 24 hours
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