Vladimir Putin lost the elections in Slovenia. Namely, most Russians in Slovenia cast blank ballots at the recent election, and Putin came second among the candidates.
Russian dictator Vladimir Putin won 87 percent of the vote, according to almost all the votes counted in the presidential election – if you could even call this farce an election – thus securing his fifth term as head of state. This is mainly due to repression, experts are convinced, and this belief is also supported by the numerous incidents at the polling stations, as well as by the election results of Russian citizens elsewhere in the world, including in Slovenia – because Putin’s regime has not been able to manipulate the results elsewhere.
Thus, in Ljubljana, which is fortunately far enough that Putin’s hand cannot reach it, the Russian citizens elected Vladislav Davankov of the New People party in the elections at the Russian Embassy in Ljubljana.
Namely, the Ljubljana polling station received 650 blank ballot papers. 510 people cast blank ballot papers, and 140 were destroyed.111 ballot papers were invalid, as people circled more than one candidate on them, or votes were cast against all candidates, and Alexei Navalny‘s name was even written on the ballot paper in some cases. 228 voters voted for Vladislav Davankov, 148 for Vladimir Putin, 12 for Leonid Slutsky of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia and 11 for Nikolay Kharitonov of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
Before the elections, the Russian opposition called on all Russian citizens to vote for anyone but the dictator Vladimir Putin. Alternatively, they recommended casting an invalid ballot. In a video that recently made rounds on social media, we could see a long queue that formed outside the Russian Embassy in Ljubljana on Sunday, with around 300 voters gathered there to vote.
And while Putin’s competitors, especially Davankov, got a large number of votes in Slovenia and elsewhere in the world, this was not the case in Russia. There, the candidates were no match for Putin, receiving between three and four percent of the vote. However, 74 percent of eligible voters took part in the elections, which is the highest turnout since 1991.
In his first reaction to the elections, which came a few hours after the polls closed on Sunday, Putin suggested that the high turnout was linked to the war in Ukraine. He went on to say that he was not ruling out the possibility of a full-scale conflict with NATO at the moment, but that this would mean that the world would be only one step away from a third world war.
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