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Putin, Kim, Assad and their most fantastical election wins
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In case you missed it, Russian President Vladimir Putin secured another six years in power for himself over the weekend, “winning” a rigged election with virtually no real opponent.
In a feat of generosity, Putin only gave himself 87 percent of the vote, according to preliminary results, the biggest share he has claimed in any of his five presidential election wins since 2000.
Since then, the country has held largely symbolic elections for the parliamentary body — which usually feature 99.99 percent voter turnout and where people vote “yes” or “no” on a single-candidate ballot.
Lukashenko, who has been in power since 1994, has taken several pages out of Putin’s book on leadership, cracking down on opposition and amending laws to grant himself lifelong immunity.
Those big wins came during a devastating civil war in which Assad (with Putin’s help, incidentally) crushed multi-sided opposition, killing hundreds of thousands of people in a conflict that has lasted more than a decade.
Just last month, Azebaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev received close to 94 percent of the vote in a tainted election in the South Caucasus.
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