Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin received 2 million 444 thousand 918 votes after 91.3 percent of the protocols were counted in the elections held in the capital. This was reported by RIA NewsBased on data from the Election Observation Center in Moscow.
At the same time, Moscow City Duma deputy Leonid Zyuganov received 261,323 votes, while Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Boris Chernyshov received 181,025 votes.
Dmitry Gusev, the first deputy chairman of the “Just Russia – Patriots – For Truth” group in the State Duma, received 126,150 votes, and State Duma deputy chairman Vladislav Davankov from the “New People” party – 170,517 votes.
Before that, Chairman of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin statedIt was stated that the USA and the European Union made attempts to prevent elections in Russia.
Elections were held in 85 regions of Russia in a single voting day, September 8-10. A mayor was elected in Moscow.
In 2010, the Moscow City Duma gave Sobyanin the powers of the capital’s mayor, in September 2013 he was elected mayor of Moscow, and in 2018 he was re-elected for a new term. Sobyanin’s opponents in the 2023 elections are Dmitry Gusev, representative of the “Just Russia – For Truth” party, Vladislav Davankov, representative of “New People”, Boris Chernyshov, the grandson of the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Leonid Zyuganov and a member of the LDPR.
Previously at CEC made suggestions For the 2024 elections.
Source: Gazeta
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