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Orbán congratulates Putin on his rigged election win
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Russia’s freshly “reelected” president, Vladimir Putin, has finally received his first — and so far only — congratulation from a European leader: Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán.
Putin won a personal-best 87 percent support in Russia’s three-day presidential election, which ended Sunday.
The last time he won the presidency, in 2018, Putin received congratulations from many EU countries, including Austria, Hungary, Greece, Spain, Italy, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, France, Croatia, Germany, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Latvia, and Estonia.
This year, EU countries including Germany, France and Italy questioned the legitimacy of Putin’s win, with many leaders condemning the conduct of the election.
Meanwhile, Putin received postcards from fellow autocrats including North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, China’s Xi Jinping, Alexandr Lukashenko of Belarus and Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua.
The March 15-17 Russian presidential election was marked by mass falsification of ballots, forced voting, and the death during the electoral campaign of Putin’s key political opponent — Alexey Navalny.
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