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Russia election: Putin wins with 88% support, exit poll says
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https://www.dw.com/en/russia-election-putin-wins-with-88-support-exit-poll-says/a-68597661
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 2 years ago
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Russian President Vladimir Putin was slated to win the country’s presidential election, state-run exit polls showed Sunday.
The government-run VTsIOM pollster showed the 71-year-old had won a landslide, having secured an estimated 88% of the vote in the three-day election that included no real opposition candidates.
The election took place just over two years since Putin triggered the deadliest European conflict since the Second World War by ordering the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which he labels a “special military operation.”
The UK’s foreign office wrote on X: By illegally holding elections on Ukrainian territory, Russia demonstrates that it is not interested in finding a path to peace.
News agencies reported an increase in younger voters at noon at polling stations in Moscow, St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, with queues of several hundred people and even thousands.
A concert on Moscow’s Red Square is being staged on Monday to mark 10 years since Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula — an event that is also expected to serve as a victory celebration for Putin.
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