Voting for the Russian presidential election has begun; The Far East was a pioneer

The doors of 200 polling stations in Kamchatka and 55 polling stations in Chukotka (near Alaska) were opened to voters on Friday morning local time to receive voters for three days like in other regions of Russia.
A total of 93,920 polling stations are expected to be used by Russian citizens, of which 93,644 are inside and 269 are outside the country. Seven polling stations will also be active in Baikonur space base.

This election is the first election period in the history of Russia, which will be held for three days. Appointed. The Central Election Commission of Russia later announced that voting will be held over three days, from March 15 to 17 (March 25 to 27, 1402).

Election candidates
Vladimir Putin (current president), Nikolai Kharitonov (Communist Party), Vladislav Davankov (New People’s Party) and Leonid Slutsky (Liberal Democratic Party) are the candidates for this presidential election. are countries.

Statistics of those eligible to participate in Russian elections
The total population of Russia on January 1, 2023 (a little over a year ago), There were about 146 million people.

Meanwhile, according to TASS news agency, 114,212,734 people are eligible to participate in the presidential elections of this country, of which 112,309,000 And 947 people live in Russia.

The number of Russian citizens eligible to participate in this election abroad is also reported to be 1,890,863. 11,924 Russian citizens stationed at the Baikonur space station will participate in this election.

According to the head of the Central Election Commission of Russia, 113,574,550 voting fees have been provided to 89 regions of the Russian Federation.

Online Elections
The number of printed voting fees is less than the number of qualified people because a significant number of Russian citizens They participate in elections online.

In this link, the Ministry of Communications and Digital Development of Russia announced: Four million and 900 thousand Russian citizens have registered online voting requests 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 also 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.

Participation of more than two million people in early voting
Given the extent of Russia as the largest country in the world in terms of size, early voting from It was done from the 6th to the 24th of March.

The head of the Russian Central Election Commission announced on Thursday: About 2 million people participated early in the Russian presidential election.

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; Thursday (March 24, 1402) was the last day of early voting.

Residents of hard-to-reach and remote areas, as well as ship sailors who find it difficult to come to polling stations on the main days of Russian presidential elections, could cast their votes earlier than in other regions of the country. put it in the box.

Furthermore, elections for residents of Zaporizhia province (newly annexed to Russia) and some other front-line regions in the Special Military Operations Zone are also earlier than in other regions of Russia. It started.

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

On March 21, 1402, this opinion polling center added: It is predicted that 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, each, 6 percent. get the votes and be in second and third place.

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.

Time to announce the preliminary results of the elections
The head of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation has announced that the preliminary results of the first half of the elections on Monday, March 18 (March 28) will be announced.
Pamfilova continued: We are receiving data from different regions of Russia within the framework of the system, and it is expected that we will announce the preliminary results from about 90% of the polling stations around noon on Monday.
The election result will disappoint many people outside of Russia. The beginning of the nationwide voting process of this election said: the result of this election will disappoint many people abroad.

Nicklai Bolayev added: All jokes about the election of the president, trying to interfere in the voting by closing polling stations abroad or attacking them in border areas are meaningless.

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He continued: Russian people will have their say in the elections, no matter what, if the (foreign) pressure on the people increases, the unity will increase. In my opinion, the result of the election will disappoint many people abroad.

Presence of observers from 106 countries
Pavel Andreev, a member of the Central Election Commission of Russia, also announced: The Central Election Commission of Russia issued approval for observers from 106 countries. has done.

According to him, the presence of international observers has more than doubled compared to the previous election period.

Voting time for Russian citizens in Iran
On Friday morning, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia announced the list of voting branches of this country in different countries of the world. Based on this, the cities of Tehran, Isfahan, Rasht, Bushehr and Dasht-Abbas have been announced as the planned places for receiving Russian citizens in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The voting time for Russian citizens in Iran has been announced on Sunday, March 27, from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM.

The Russian embassy in Tehran, the consulates of this country in Isfahan and Rasht, and two designated locations in the cities of Bushehr and Dasht Abbas are in charge of hosting ballot boxes from Russian citizens in Iran.

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Source: IRNA