At the end of the presidential election, which took place from March 15 to 17, Vladimir Putin obtained 87.32% of the votes. The outgoing president, 71, thus beat his previous record from 2018 (76%) by ten points. At the end of this fifth term, he will have surpassed the record for longevity in the Kremlin, previously held by Joseph Stalin.
This result was predictable and the opposition did not wait for the results to be published to challenge a vote deemed rigged. This is also the regret expressed by some Western democracies: if the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, sent his congratulations to Mr. Putin on the social networkit was not without irony: “No opposition. No freedom. No choice. »
How does Mr. Putin ensure a comfortable victory in every election? In this video, we review the reasons that allow us to strongly doubt the sincerity and result of the vote; the issue, for Mr. Putin, was not only to win the election.
To find out more, we offer you the analysis of the election by our correspondent in Moscow, Benoît Vitkine.
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