Moscow: United Russian Party President Vladimir Putin is on track to win a strong majority in parliamentary voting, the results show Monday, after the election that follows unprecedented crackdown in opposition.
With 50 percent of the vote counted, United Russia was in front with 46.11 percent of the vote, followed by the Communist Party with 21.40 percent.
Voting came after an explanation that saw Putin’s famous domestic enemy, Alexei Navalny was imprisoned – after he returned to Russia after the poisoning he blamed the Kremlin – and his organization was banned as “extremist”.
In leading the election, all allied Top Navalny was arrested or escaped from the country, with anyone related to his group continued to run.
The Navalny team called for opposition supporters to support other candidates who have the potential to beat Russia united, most of the communists, and the results showed a “Smart Voting” campaign may have some success.
United Russian’s voice share fell from 54.2 percent in the last parliament election in 2016, while communists saw their support grew from 13.3 percent.
However, voting with a list of only half of 450 Duma State Duma seats, and United Russia dominated in other parts of the chair assigned according to a single mandate race.
With 50 percent of the sound was calculated, United Kandidat Russia was in front of at least 193 of 225 seats.
United Russia held 334 Duma seats to elections and if the trend continued, it seemed that it seemed to at least hold on to the majority of two-thirds.
Three other parties seem to have fulfilled the five percent threshold needed to enter parliament – The Nationalist LDPR, “new people” are newly formed, and “only Russians”, all with less than 10 percent.
The Secretary of the United Russian General Council Andrei Turchak congratulated the supporters at the party headquarters with “clean and honest victory”.
But Navalny allies said the voting was faked on a large scale, it was mainly on recurring delays in the release of the results of electronic voting in Moscow liberal and opposition friendly.
“We have strengthened their political system.
We force them to admit defeat or falsify, in front of everyone, truly shameless, without shame.
To admit moral bankruptcy,” said Key Navalny Aide Leonid Volkov during the live broadcast on YouTube.
The authorities have taken drastic steps to prevent the “Smart Voting” campaign, which provides a list of candidates in the best expectations to deny politicians who are in harmony.
The campaign website was closed and on Friday Apple and Google removed the smart voting application from their store, causing an upstream among the opposition that accused them of giving up on the kremlin “extortion”.
The source familiar with Google and Apple’s decision told AFP the step was taken under pressure from the Russian authority, including threats to capture local staff of Giants Tech.
Popular Messenger Telegram also removes smart Navalny voting bots, and on Sunday Google Documents and YouTube videos that contain a list of recommended candidates blocked.
The election is at 45 percent in accordance with the latest numbers released by the Sunday election commission on Sunday.
Critics argue that online voting, new restrictions on electoral observers and polls are spread over three days – a transfer official says is to reduce the risk of Coronavirus – all convey opportunities for fraud.
On Sunday night, Golos Independent Election Monitor – The authorities branded by “foreign agents” before the poll – have tracked more than 4,900 reports of election violations.
While Putin’s 68-year-old remains popular, United Russia has seen a decline in support as a living standard of liking economic stagnation for years.
“No one chose,” Andrei, a 33-year-old professional who refused to give his last name, to AFP in Moscow.
He threw his election in the election of “false”, he said, to “at least show some protests against the current government”.
But Anna Kartashova, a 50-year-old pharmaceutical company manager in Moscow, said he chose United Russia because he “only trusts” Putin.
“We just don’t see other people, we can believe in the current political landscape,” he said.