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Putin wins in Russia, but a polling station in Barnaul votes differently.
There, a communist wins the Russian election hands down – at first.
Barnaul – In Russia, Vladimir Putin will remain in power for another six years, as predicted.
With a declared result of over 87 percent and a voter turnout of 74 percent, he broke two records.
But figures from Barnaul, a city in southern Western Siberia, could be a thorn in his side.
The long-time Russian president initially suffered a bitter defeat at a polling station there.
A Telegram message from the channel “Elections, TSYK to everyone!” said that 84 percent of voters at polling station 95 in Barnaul voted for the communist Nikolai Kharitonov.
The candidate received only 4.7 percent of the vote nationwide.
All other candidates, including Putin, only received 10 percent of the vote in Barnaul.
Victory “stolen”: Kharitonov clearly ahead of Putin in Barnaul Russia election
With 73 votes, Putin received only about a tenth of the votes that Kharitonov received with 763 votes.
Barnaul was also an exception in the 2021 State Duma election.
Here, the “Communist Party of the Russian Federation” received 1.3 times as many votes as Putin’s “United Russia” party.
The independent Russian news agency
SOTA
claims in a Telegram message: "Kharitonov's victory at a polling station in Barnaul was stolen."
The electoral commission explained that it had swapped the lines of the election protocol and that a new count would take place.
Barnaul is not the only suspected attempt to manipulate Putin's Russia election
According to SOTA,
other candidates also won in other polling stations, such as the 1953 polling station in Novosibirsk,
but not as clearly as in Barnaul.
In Novosibirsk, the relatively critical candidate Vladislav Davankov received 42 percent of the vote, while Putin received 40 percent.
The election results for Putin were significantly worse, especially at foreign polling stations.
Election expert Dmitry Nesterov discovered
suspected fraud in Moscow, according to
SOTA .
Neighboring polling stations there had a difference of about 40 percentage points, depending on whether they were observed or not.
There are also increasing reports of violations of the counting procedure on the “Elections, TSYK to everyone!” channel.
President Putin still undefeated – thanks to “costly bureaucracy” in the Russian election?
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the
New York Times
in August: “Our presidential elections are not a real democracy, but a costly bureaucracy.”
At that time he had announced that Putin would be re-elected with 90 percent approval.
The 87 percent in the Russia election are not far off.
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Vladimir Putin's election victory is also accompanied by allegations of manipulation.
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Alexander Zemlianichenko
Despite possible local election defeats, one thing is certain: Putin will remain President of Russia for another six years.
Through constitutional reforms shortly before the war with Ukraine, Putin could even run again and remain in office until 2036.
The individual election victories of opposing candidates also have little weight in the current situation with Ukraine.
The only three opposing candidates (Davankov, Kharitonov and Leonid Slutski) are all viewed as pro-Kremlin.
None of the candidates have spoken out openly against the war in Ukraine.
(lismah)
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