A question of “patriotism”.
Against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin encouraged Russians on Thursday March 14 to go to the polls between March 15 and 17 for the presidential election.
A vote already decided in advance for the head of the Kremlin who does not even deign to campaign.
Opposing him, three candidates without stature were tolerated while the real opposition was crushed with thousands of arrests.
Suffice to say that this sham election leaves little alternative to the Russians who are summoned to offer a new mandate to the master of the Kremlin, Lasserpe estimates in this caustic humorous drawing.
Born in 1966, Lasserpe rages in Fluide Glacial and Marianne.
He was winner of the Trophée Presse Citron in 2009 and the Prix Varenne in 2014.
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