Putin achieves direct election in the first round in the Russian presidential elections

MADRID, 17 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –

Russian President Vladimir Putin has achieved direct election for a sixth term after achieving more than half of the votes cast in the presidential elections held between Friday and Sunday, according to official data that is still provisional.

The Central Electoral Commission has reported that after counting 57.37 percent of the votes, Putin has obtained 87.17 percent support, which represents 50.06 percent of the total votes cast.

The data, released by the Central Election Commission and collected by public television RBC, places Nikolai Jaritonov in second place (4.17 percent), followed by Vladislav Davankov (4.07 percent) and Leonid Slutski (3.15 percent). hundred).

In 2018, Putin won the elections with 76.69 percent support and 67.54 percent turnout, followed by the candidate of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Pavel Grudinin (11.77 percent). The 2012 margin was smaller (63.6 percent of votes), while in 2008 the candidate supported by Putin, Dimitri Medvedev, won with 70.28 percent. Putin himself won in 2004 with 71.31 percent of the vote and in 2000 it was his first victory, with 52.94 percent support.

The president of the Moscow Electoral Commission, Olga Kirilova, has announced that Putin has won the capital with 89.1 percent support, followed by Davankov (4.4 percent), Jaritonov (3.3 percent ) and Slutski (3.2 percent).

Also noteworthy is the support achieved by Putin in Lugansk (94.12 percent), Kherson (88.12 percent), Donetsk (95.23 percent), Yakutia (87.79 percent), Khabarovsk (80.06 percent percent) or Chukotka (90.49 percent).

Regarding participation, the Central Election Commission has indicated that until 8:00 p.m. Moscow time the participation has been 74.22 percent.

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