Early voting by 2 million people in hard-to-reach and war-torn regions of Russia

From Sputnik news agency, the head of the Central Election Commission of Russia on Thursday, presenting a report on the preparation for voting in the presidential elections in this country, said: about 2 million early voters in the Russian presidential elections. participated.

Ella Pamfilova said: Russia is a very big country, we have many inaccessible and remote places; Therefore, the elections in such regions, as well as the four regions newly joined to Russia and their neighboring regions, as well as in the ships that are traveling on the sea route on the voting days, are being held early; Today, Thursday (March 24, 1402) is the last day of early voting, and tomorrow, Friday, March 25, 1402, the national and main voting will take place.

Distribution of voting fees in 89 regions of the Russian Federation

The head of the Central Election Commission of Russia added: In addition to 113,574,550 voting fees, 89 regions of the Russian Federation have been provided.

Pamfilova: Elections in Russia, unlike many Western countries, are transparent and democratic

In another part of her speech, Pamfilova said: The Russian presidential election will be held for the first time in difficult and sensitive conditions and in a poisoned international atmosphere.

He added: In Western countries, the process of unprecedented violation of the rights of ordinary citizens of Russia, including imposing restrictions on them in the field of voting, is going on.

Time to announce the preliminary election results

The head of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation also announced that the preliminary results of the first half of this election will be announced on Monday, March 18 (March 28).

He continued: We are collecting the data within the framework of the system from different regions of Russia, and it is expected that we will announce the preliminary results from about 90% of the polling stations around noon on Monday.

Russian presidential election at a glance

The Federation Council or the Upper House of the Russian Parliament first set March 17, 2024 (March 27, 1402) as the date of the presidential election. The Central Election Commission of Russia later announced that voting will be held in three days, from March 15 to 17 (March 25 to 27, 1402), and this period will be the first three-day presidential election in Russia.

Early voting for the Russian presidential election has already started on February 25, 2024 (March 6, 1402) in 15 regions of this country. Voting stations are difficult on the main days of Russian presidential elections, they can cast their votes earlier than other regions of the country.

Furthermore, elections have also started for the residents of the residential centers of Zaporizhia province, which are on the front line in the Russian military special operations zone in Ukraine.

According to the Russian TASS news agency, 93,920 polling stations are expected to be used by Russian citizens, of which 93,644 are inside the country and 269 are outside the country. Seven polling stations will also be active in Baikonur space base.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Communications and Digital Development of Russia announced: 4 million and 900 thousand Russian citizens have registered to vote online in the upcoming presidential elections of this country. The ministry announced on its Telegram channel on Tuesday evening: These people have applied to participate in the elections electronically and remotely by visiting the vybory.gov.ru site in 28 regions of Russia where it is possible to participate in online elections. do.

According to this report, 3.7 million Russian citizens have chosen the polling station that suits them with the help of the “mobile voter” service.

23 thousand 500 people have applied to vote at home on the website of Russian government services. If their requests are approved, polling station officials will come to them with ballot papers and a mobile ballot box.

Prediction of 71% participation in the Russian presidential election

Vladimir Putin (the current president), Nikolai Kharitonov (Communist Party), Vladislav Davankov (New People’s Party) and Leonid Slutsky (Liberal Democracy Party) are the candidates for the upcoming presidential elections of this country.

The Russian Public Opinion Research Center previously announced: The center’s survey results show that Russian President Vladimir Putin will win the upcoming presidential election with 82% of the vote, and the Russians’ electoral participation rate will be 71%.

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This opinion polling center added in this regard on March 21, 1402: In this election, Nikolai Kharitonov, the candidate of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, and Vladislav Davankov, the candidate of the New People’s Party, are expected to win 6 percent of the votes each, and in the second place and be placed third.

Based on the results of this survey, it is predicted that Leonid Slutsky, the leader and candidate of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, will also receive five percent of the votes of the people of this country.

Source: IRNA