A real popularity rating of less than 30% should not prevent the United Russia presidential party from continuing to largely control the Duma for the next five years, following the legislative elections which took place over three days until Sunday, in at the same time as local and regional elections.
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The formation loyal to Vladimir Putin was credited with potentially around 300 MPs (343 in the current term), although full voting results, in a country spanning nine time zones, were not expected until Sunday night.
After a sluggish campaign, without substantive debates, where the candidates were carefully "
filtered"
by the Kremlin, the Russians did not rush to the polls: the turnout (a few hours before the end of the vote) stood at 40 % (47% in the 2016 elections).
Ballot box stuffing
On the other hand, voters who chose electronic voting (in Moscow, some 2 million people out of 7 million registered) participated in
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