Vladimir Putin will continue to govern Russia until 2030 after achieving 87% of the votes in the presidential election.
This was reported by the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) at the end of the three days of voting in Russia.
Vladimir Putin, 71, achieved his biggest electoral victory since coming to power in Russia in 2000.
Putin’s victory comes despite the war in ukraine and Western economic sanctions.
Vladimir Putin will remain president of this country for another six years, after which he will be able to run for re-election again, since he reformed the clauses of the Constitution that prevented him from continuing in the Kremlin.
The second most voted candidate was the communist Nikolai Kharitonov with 4% of the votes.
He was followed by the representative of New People party, Vladislav Davankov, con 3,86 %.
The last candidate is the ultranationalist Leonid Slutski, who accounts for 3% of the ballots.
Vladimir Putin and war
The opposition to the Kremlin could not participate in the elections, since the CEC did not register its candidates for various technical reasons or formal defects. for supporting peace in Ukraine.
The CEC, which did not invite Western observers, denied any irregularities, although independent experts and the press in exile denounced cases of electoral manipulation.
The opposition expressed its suspicions about the massive use of administrative resources after more than half of the census voted in the first two days.
In Russia, a total of 112 million people were eligible to go to the polls.
Thousands of Russians critical of the Kremlin came at 12 noon on March 17, 2024 to vote en masse in Russia. The elections have been marked by drone attacks and Ukrainian border raids.
This has caused several deaths and led Vladimir Putin to accuse kyiv of trying to torpedo his re-election.