Episode 2512
2024 Russian presidential election
Tue, 2024-Mar-19 01:29 UTC
Length - 3:52
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With 207,392 views on Monday, 18 March 2024 our article of the day is 2024 Russian presidential election.
Presidential elections were held in Russia from 15 to 17 March 2024. It was the eighth presidential election in the country. Incumbent president Vladimir Putin claimed victory with 87% of the vote, the highest percentage of victory in a presidential election in post-Soviet Russia, gaining a fifth term that was widely viewed as a foregone conclusion. He is scheduled to be inaugurated on 7 May 2024. In November 2023, former member of the State Duma, Boris Nadezhdin, became the first person backed by a registered political party to announce his candidacy, running on an anti-war platform. He was followed by incumbent and independent candidate Vladimir Putin in December 2023, who is eligible to seek re-election as a result of the 2020 constitutional amendments. Later the same month, Leonid Slutsky of the LDPR, Nikolay Kharitonov of the Communist Party and Vladislav Davankov of New People announced their candidacies.
Other candidates also declared their candidacy but were barred for various reasons. Despite passing the initial stages of the process, on 8 February 2024, Nadezhdin was barred from running. The decision was announced at a special CEC session, citing alleged irregularities in the signatures of voters supporting his candidacy. Nadezhdin's status as the only explicitly anti-war candidate was widely regarded as the real reason for his disqualification, although Davankov also promised "peace and negotiations" with Ukraine. As was the case in the 2018 presidential election, and as anticipated by international observers, the election was not free and fair. The election campaign was held amid political repressions, with Putin's authoritarian rule intensifying after he launched a full-scale war with Ukraine in 2022. No credible opposition figures were permitted to stand for election; genuine critics of Putin were dead, imprisoned, living in exile, or barred from the ballot. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny, viewed as the most viable Putin rival, was imprisoned on politically motivated charges in 2021, was imprisoned at a remote Arctic penal colony in 2021; his prison term was repeatedly extended, and he was deemed ineligible for the ballot. Nalvany died in prison in February 2024, weeks before the election, under suspicious circumstances. The three-day balloted period was marked by state propaganda, censorship, and electoral fraud and manipulation. Novaya Gazeta, an independent newspaper, estimated that 31.6 million votes, half the total number of votes recorded, were fake. Russia held the election in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine; Russian soldiers and election officials forced many Ukrainians to vote, sometimes at gunpoint.
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