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“I have supported Putin from the beginning and I have no regrets. He does what needs to be done. This time again, I voted for him…”
And Maria slipped her ballot into the ballot box in polling station no. 56 in the Krasnosselski district, north of Moscow.
And this retiree does not hide her choice - in favor of the head of the Kremlin -, like many of those who succeed one another at a good pace in this classroom of a local school.
“Our president will not change after this vote,”
said another 52-year-old voter
.
“I like his policies and I hope he will continue
,” she says without lingering
.
“What do you expect from the next president?”
The question, a bit provocative, triggers the smile of another voter, aged 25
: “But how then?
Putin will remain president and I support him
,” replies the young woman straight away.
Sincere enthusiasm or cautious conformism, especially in the face of a foreigner, the choice of these Muscovites seems to foreshadow the result...
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