Russia? “These elections, in my view, did not reflect the will of the citizens”

“ ANDthese elections, in my view, did not reflect the will of the citizens and do not meet their wishes”, said the opposition politician in a video released by the Communist Party of Russia.

According to Bondarenko, whose YouTube channel has about two million followers, all irregularities detected by party observers will be brought to the attention of the authorities.

“ We will continue the fight”, Bondarenko promised, adding that the demand for a change of course will not disappear after the elections.

The Russian media today reported the first protest against the election results.

The demonstration took place in the city of Syktyvkar and was attended by about a hundred citizens summoned by the Communist Party.

The Russian Communists denounced on Thursday that in the legislative elections in the Krasnodar region (in the south of the country), where the Kremlin party obtained the majority, as well as in the rest of the country, they were “stealed almost half a million votes”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the participation of the population in the legislative elections last week, won without surprise by his party and again denounced alleged attempts at external interference.

The UK, which supports the Putin regime, revalidated the parliamentary majority with a record number of at least 355 of 450 Members, announced on Monday the Russian electoral authorities.

The previous record was 343 deputies and had been reached by the UK in 2016, according to the French agency AFP.

In a first reaction, the spokesperson for the Kremlin, Dmitri Peskov, had already considered that the results “show an exceptional level of cohesion of Russian society around” Putin.

The results of more than 95% of the voting assemblies gave the UK around 58% of the votes for the 225 seats distributed on party lists, according to the Central Election Commission, with a large difference for the remaining political forces authorised to participate in the elections.

After Putin's party, the most voted was the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, with 13.84% of the votes, followed by the Liberal Democratic Party (8.9%) and the New People (7.94%), while the liberal party Yabloko, the only one who dared to publicly criticize the war, was removed from the bulletin in August by the Supreme Court of Russia.

The vote took place between Friday and Sunday, in those which were the first Russian legislatures since Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

It was the first vote to include residents of four regions of Ukraine that were occupied and illegally annexed by Moscow at the end of 2022, also taking place in Crimea, illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.