On Sunday, Russian President Vladimir Putin won his nation’s election, remaining in power as president for the next six years.
The results from the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM) poll showed that the 71-year-old unsurprisingly won approximately 87.8% of the vote, according to Reuters.
Putin secured an easy majority from Russian voters, but three other names were also on the ballot, gaining some movement behind them.
The BBC reported that Communist Nikolai Kharitonov is expected to hit an estimated 4.6-4.7%, with Deputy parliamentary speaker Vladislav Davankov projected to get somewhere in between 3.6%-4.2%, and Nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) Leonid Slutsky expected to sit in fourth place with roughly 2.5-3%.
Following the announcement of his victory, Putin spoke at his campaign headquarters stating, “Out of every voice, we are building a common will of the people of Russian Federation,” according to the BBC. The Russian president additionally thanked Russian residents’ for going out to the polls, as well as those “on the line of contact,” in reference to those soldiers fighting in Ukraine.
“No matter how hard they tried to scare us, suppress our will, our conscience, no-one has ever succeeded in history. They failed now, and they will fail in the future,” Putin stated.
However, not everyone agreed with Putin’s victory. At least 80 people were reported to have been arrested for allegedly vandalizing polling stations, with the Russian Interior Ministry launching 33 criminal investigations into the incident.
“A large amount of work was carried out both from the point of view of documentation and from the point of view of preventing the entry of dyes and flammable liquids,” Deputy Interior Minister Alexander Gorov stated, according to the outlet.
Additionally, Yulia Navalny, the widow of late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in a Russian prison camp last month, spoke after casting her ballot at the Russia’s embassy in Berlin, posting a message of thanks to those who waited 6 hours in line with her to X.
“Thank you very much, wonderful, best people who stood with me today from 12 noon for a whole 6 hours side by side in line at the polling station. Thank you for coming — crying, laughing. Thank you for endlessly shouting ‘Yulia, we are with you’ and ‘Navalny’ and telling me that I gave you back hope. In fact, of course, it’s the other way around, it’s not me, but you who give me hope that everything is not in vain, that we will still fight. Thank you to all of you who came out in every city around the world. You are my support and support. I love you all very much,” Navalny stated.
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