Vladimir Putin Re-elected Russian President For Six-Year Term
The Russian president, Vladimir Putin was re-elected to complete his six-year term in the country’s public office of the president.
Putin was projected winner of the three-day vote by the government-run VTsIOM pollster, which said he had won the election with 87% of the vote at the end of the electoral process at 17:00 GMT.
He is taken to be the longest Russian-serving president in more than 200 years, heading for his six-year term that will end in 2030.
The hardline former spy, Putin , 71, has a grim record of imprisoning or killing his political opponents to secure his stay as the Russian presiden
He has waged countless systemic wars on authorities opposing his policies and military operations in Ukraine and, demanding for his step down.
The highly touted election was marked by a surge in deadly Ukrainian bombardments, incursions into Russian territory by pro-Kyiv sabotage groups and vandalism at polling stations, AFP News reported.
It was in the hope to live peacefully and freely without the controlling presence of a “dictator’s” government with the desire to extend military assaults in Ukraine that the Kremlin cast the election to elect a new leader.
But unfortunately the entire voting process was “manipulated” and controlled by the Russian government “proxies”, where the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky said Putin was “capable of any evil” to retain power.
“There is no evil he will not commit to prolong his personal power,” Zelensky said.
Since coming to power in the late 1990s, Putin has been a dominant figure in Russian politics, holding various top positions within the governmen
As polarizing figure, Vladimir Putin’s re-election as the President of the country for another six-year term only serves to further solidify his grip on power and influence in the region, therefore extending his war with Ukraine, of which the allies of the late Alexei Navalny, who was Putin’s most critical rival do not wan
His victory remains “questionable” looking at criticisms from his oppositions and the international observers as the election results have great implications for Russia and the worl
Since Navalny’s death in an Arctic prison last month his wife Yulia Navalnaya and supporters have not changed their goal to vote either of Putin’s oppositions.
Some voters told AFP in Moscow that they had come to polling boot to honour Navalny’s memory and show their opposition in the only legal way possibl
“I came to show that there are many of us, that we exist, that we are not some insignificant minority,” Artem Minasyan, 19-year-old student said at a polling station in central Mosco
Leonid Volkov, a senior aide to the late Navalny, said the results published by Moscow had no “slightest relation to reality”.
“The percentages drawn for Putin have, of course, not the slightest relation to reality,” he said on his social media handl
Another Russian citizen who commented on the election results turning out to support Putin re-elected Russian president includes the Russia’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, who said there is a clear indication that majority of the voters did not vote Putin and had supported his opposition candidat
“If the people queueing abroad to vote in the Russian presidential election had taken part in the ‘noon’ action, they would have all dispersed after noon. But no,” Maria Zakharova wrote on her social media handle.
