Russians clear way for Putin to extend his rule
Russia, 2nd July: Russians have elected Vladimir Putin as their constitutional President until 2036.
According to Baaghi TV, Russians have elected Vladimir Putin as the new constitutional president until 2036. In a referendum on controversial constitutional amendments to extend Vladimir Putin’s rule until 2036, he received more than 70 percent of the vote.
As per reports from AlJazeera, Russians have granted President Vladimir Putin the right to stay in power until 2036 by voting overwhelmingly for constitutional changes that reset the clock on the longtime Russian leader’s tenure to zero, but critics said the outcome was falsified on an industrial scale.
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Official results published on Thursday, after 99.9 percent of ballots had been counted, showed that the former KGB officer who has ruled Russia for more than 20 years as president or prime minister had won the right to run for two more six-year terms after the current one ends in 2024.
This means that Putin who is 67 years old, could run for the President until he is 83.
The Central Election Commission said 77.9 percent of votes counted across the country supported changing the constitution, while 21 percent had voted against it. However, the voting conducted was transparent and that officials had done everything to ensure its integrity.
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Russians had been encouraged to back Putin’s power move, described by critics as a constitutional coup, with prize draws offering flats and an advertisement campaign highlighting other constitutional amendments in the same reform bundle, such as pensions protection and a de facto ban on same-sex marriages.
One-off payments of 10,000 roubles ($141) were transferred to those with children at Putin’s order as people headed to polling stations on Wednesday, the last day of the vote, held over seven days to try to limit the spread of the virus.
Putin’s competitor Alexei Navalny stated that the voting was an illegitimate show designed to legalize Putin’s presidency for life. He expressed that the opposition will not protest as of now due to the pandemic, but intend to do so in Autumn if its candidates were blocked from taking part in regional elections or their results were falsified.
Putin, already the longest-serving leader in modern Russian history since Soviet ruler Josef Stalin made no mention of how the changes could affect his own career in an eve-of-vote speech on Tuesday. He sais that he has yet to decide on his future.
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