He Kremlin seeks the re-election of the Russian president, Vladimir Putinwith more than 80% of the votes in the elections to be held in March 2024, as reported today by the digital newspaper Meduza, citing official sources.
“The objective that they have set for us is simple, to achieve more than 80% of the votes in the presidential elections”a senior regional official told Meduza.
The best electoral result obtained by Putin was the 76.69% of the votes he garnered in 2012, when he returned to the Kremlin after four years as prime minister.
The presidential administration does not expect that the fact that the war in Ukraine is not going according to plan could influence Putin’s landslide victory in the elections.
“The result will be guaranteed by different methods: mobilization of authentic supporters of the president, administrative and corporate mobilization, electronic voting”commented another source close to the Presidency.
According to a recent survey, 76.1% of Russians approve of Putin’s management as head of state, despite setbacks such as the failed armed rebellion that occurred on June 24 and led by the head of the Wagner group, Yevgueni Prigozhin.
To achieve the re-election of the president, the Kremlin relies on the popular pull of the great exhibition that will be held between next November and April 2024 in Moscow.
According to the Védomosti newspaper, Putin could announce his re-election by inaugurating the event, which will bear the name of Russia and where the country’s achievements will be exposed since its current tenant landed in the Kremlin in 2000.
There is also the possibility that Putin will announce his candidacy at the end of the year during the traditional Hotline in which he answers questions from his compatriots live or as part of a regional trip.
In 2017, he announced that he would run for re-election by visiting a car factory in the Nizhny Novgorod region.
Despite the military campaign, Russia will hold local elections on September 10 throughout the national territory, including the annexed Ukrainian regions: Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson and Zaporizhia.
Last February Putin stressed that “Both the local and regional elections of September of this year and the presidential ones of 2024 will take place in strict accordance with the legislation, respecting all constitutional democratic procedures.”
The controversial 2020 constitutional reform allows Putin to run for re-election in both 2024 and 2030.
Source: EFE
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