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The acting President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin leads the presidential poll with 75,91% of the votes, TASS informs
The election is complete, now there is a votes’ count. The present President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin takes the lead at the election with 75,91% of the votes after processing 70,02% of district electoral commissions’ protocols, according to the Russian Central Election Committee’s data.
The Communist Party of the Russia Federation candidate Pavel Grudinin occupies the second place with 12,52% of the votes, Vladimir Zhirinovsky for the Liberal Democratic party is on the third place with 6,11% of the votes. Ksenia Sobchak is in the top five with 1,5% as well as Grigory Yavlinsky having 0,9%. The rest of the candidates - Maxim Suraykin, Boris Titov and Sergei Baburkin, got less than 1% each.
These data are not final, as the votes’ count continues. The Central Election Committee is to complete the votes’ counting by 3 p.m. Moscow time on March 19.
The exit polls were published immediately after the completion of voting. According to these polls, the acting President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin became an absolute leader. Following votes’ count only confirmed these data.
Putin attended a concert at the Manezh Square in honor of the 4th anniversary of Crimea’s Reunification with Russia. Putin expressed his gratitude to his supporters at the polls for the given confidence.
“I would like to address to the people gathered here in Moscow and to our supporters at the territory of our huge country. Thank you very much for this result,” Vladimir Putin advised.
Later Putin visited the election campaign headquarters and answered the reporters’ questions. The questions concerned Russian elections in Ukraine, which the elected President called a complete mess, also the Skripal’s case in the UK, Putin’s possible electoral term in 2030, which made him laugh, and governmental changes to come after the inauguration.
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