a few surprises inside Russian regional elections: ‘Putinism’ imposed once across the country. on Sunday, 11 enRussian takeovers “regrouped” in Kharkov regionDifferent regions of the Eurasian country went to the polls to vote for their governors, the composition of their Parliaments and/or the Duma. provincial capital. Fifteen of them elected their regional representative. All the winning candidates are part of the United Russia, party of the president of russia Vladimir Putin. Among these, regions such as Sverlovdsk Oblast (65.78% of the votes in favor of the official candidate) or the Republic of Buryatia (86.23%) stand out.
Yuri Zaitsev won with 82.44% of the votes in the Mari-El Republic. This leader became the interim governor of these Russian lands by decree of the Russian president himself. other elected republics representatives from Karelia (69.15%), Udmurtia (64.37%), as well as oblasts such as Kaliningrad (80.21%), Ryazan (84.55%) or Tambov (84.95%). In all of them, the governor of United Russia prevailed, and the majority was not exempt from the debate. Golos, a non-governmental organization that monitors the elections, supervised the elections in 19 of the districts that went through the polls.
in the city Moscow Where more irregularities are recorded, 626. Krasnodar Krai (168) Udmurtia (88) and Moscow region (80) were other regions of the country where anomalies were recorded. Some of the reported issues are expulsion of independent observers arrest of polling stations or even someone in the Russian capital. Independent researcher Kamil Galeev comments that the elections were largely “controlled by regional powers who were asked by the Kremlin to falsify the results (if they don’t, they risk being fired or jailed, so if they continue to be afraid, they will falsify them”). they will show real results. (Results) are not about votes but about fear of power.”
Instead, other parts of Russia chose the composition of their Parliaments. This applies to Sakhalin, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Penza Saratov Oblasts, among others. In all of them, Vladimir Putin’s party prevailed by over 45%, but in others, such as Penza, it reached 74.91 percent. In the low turnout city of Moscow—the day of the election was the city’s day—only 33.9% of the capital’s residents went to the polls.