Britain’s Foreign Minister, David Cameron, on Sunday, rejected initial reports from Russia suggesting that Russian President Vladimir Putin had been easily re-elected.
“The voting has ended in Russia, after the unlawful conduct of elections on Ukrainian land, a limited selection for voters, and no independent OSCE supervision,” he wrote on X, previously known as Twitter.
“This is not how legitimate and impartial elections appear,” he stated.
Exit surveys indicate that 71-year-old Putin has won another six-year period as Russian president, clearing the way for the tough former intelligence agent to become the longest-serving Russian leader in over 200 years.
With all his main opponents deceased, in jail, or banished, Putin’s triumph was never really in question.
Authorities have also been carrying out an unremitting crackdown on those who openly oppose the Kremlin or its military campaign in Ukraine.
AFP
