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The Kremlin, Moscow (illustration image). Mladen ANTONOV / AFP

United Russia, the ruling party in Russia, lost about one-third of the seats it controlled in the Moscow parliament in the aftermath of municipal and regional elections. The presidential party should nevertheless retain a majority in the capital Assembly, with 26 seats out of 45. But what are the consequences of this defeat of the party of Vladimir Putin?

For the geopolitician Cyril Bret, director of Eurasia Foresight, " the first consequence at the national level is undoubtedly in the weeks and months to come, a plan of action of the central power to remobilize the electorate of Russia in order to better control also political expressions of protest, and to get closer to the aspirations of voters, it is not excluded, for example, that we have a great plan for improving educational and health benefits. "

Putin's membership still " very high "

" On the other hand , continues Cyril Bret, if the question is : this will lead to a challenge in the street of Vladimir Putin of the Putin regime, it is no, the popularity of the president is very high, and the The people's adherence to Vladimir Putin's regime is very deep and goes well beyond distrust of the local authorities and the party. "

In total, 5,000 local polls

These elections have " perhaps (been) the most emotional and competitive in recent history ", Said the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, on his blog quoted by AFP, hoping that these results" benefit the Parliament of the city . "

In total, more than 5,000 local polls took place in the country. In St. Petersburg, where the campaign was highly controversial, the acting Kremlin-supported interim governor, Alexander Beglov, was re-elected in the first round, but the opposition denounced many frauds. Elsewhere in Russia, the majority of the governors supported by United Russia were reelected despite some quibbles, as in Khabarovsk (Far East) where the LDPR nationalist party largely conquered the municipal Parliament.

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