Putin's party won unopposed anti-Kremlin legislative elections
Members of a local election commission count the ballots at a polling station inside the Kazansky railway terminal in Moscow, September 19, 2021. REUTERS - EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA
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After three days of voting, the first estimates for parliamentary elections in Russia fell this Sunday evening.
The vote aims to renew the 450 terms of deputies of the Duma, the lower house of Parliament.
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At the end of a vote from which the anti-Kremlin opposition was essentially excluded, the first results of the general elections put the formation of President Vladimir Putin in the lead with 38.75% of the vote.
It is ahead of the KPRF communists (25.06%).
Next come the nationalists of the LDPR (9.6%), a newcomer on the political scene, then the centrists of Just Russia (6.67%).
Banned from running, supporters of the imprisoned opponent Alexeï Navalny called for votes for the candidates best placed to beat those from United Russia, often Communists. However, this call was hardly relayed,
Apple, Google
and
Telegram
having removed the voting instructions, recalls our correspondent in Moscow,
Anissa El Jabri
.
The polls taken out of the polls give the Kremlin party a much more comfortable lead: 45%, against 21% for the Communists.
In 2016, United Russia won with 54% of the vote.
For many analysts, such a score would therefore allow the Kremlin to show that public discontent has indeed been reflected in the ballot box, without having any consequences in the Duma where United Russia would retain its two-thirds majority.
As a symbol that nothing will change, in
Khabarovsk
in the Far East, where numerous protests contested the decision to put the popular governor behind bars, the candidate for regional power is clearly in the lead with almost 58% of the votes out of 70% of the ballots counted.
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See also: Elections in Russia: a poll under surveillance and with doubtful credibility
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