Election Commission: Final result in Moscow: Three-quarters majority for Kremlin party
Putin has staged the Russian parliamentary election as a popular referendum on his course of war. The result is now official. Is he using it to mobilize more soldiers?
Russia's central election commission has announced that the Kremlin party, United Russia, has won 349 out of 450 seats in the State Duma, giving it a significant three-quarters majority. The party's leadership, headed by Vladimir Putin, had presented the election as a referendum on the over 4.5-year war in Ukraine. The election commission's chair, Ella Pamfilowa, said 46 new deputies had fought in the war.
Other parties that won seats, including the Communists, Liberal Democrats, and New People, all support the Kremlin's policies. Independent experts have questioned the official results, suggesting that United Russia's vote share may have been inflated.
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