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Putin secures 5th term as Russian president in election with no real opposition, addresses Navalny death
Russian President Vladimir Putin secured a fifth term in office on Monday, winning an election that featured no real opposition.
Putin walked away with 87% of the vote, according to Russia’s election commission. He celebrated his victory over the smattering of token opposition candidates early on Monday, saying it was proof of the Russian people’s «trust» in him.
«Of course, we have lots of tasks ahead. But I want to make it clear for everyone: When we were consolidated, no one has ever managed to frighten us, to suppress our will and our self-conscience. They failed in the past and they will fail in the future,» Putin said after polls closed.
Putin’s regime has been widely successful in stomping out opposition voices amid its invasion of Ukraine. Alexei Navalny, the activist widely seen as the most credible opponent to Putin, died in a Russian prison last month.
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Putin, 71, has already lead Russia for nearly 25 years, and now he has secured another 6-year term.
Russia’s election commission reported that Putin won over 76 million votes, setting a new record.
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The win was widely met with disdain in the West, if it was acknowledged at all. President Biden has yet to make a comment on the election.
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron dismissed Putin in a statement on X.
«This is not what free and fair elections look like,» he wrote.
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There were some protesters outside polling stations and Russian embassies across the globe on Sunday, the final day of the election. Allies of Navalny and his wife, Yulia Navalnaya, called for the gatherings. Yulia said she wrote in her late husband’s name on the ballot she cast via the Russian embassy in Berlin.
Putin commented on Navalny’s death for the first time on Monday, saying he had supported a plan to release him in a prisoner exchange that was to take place just days after he died.
«It happens. There is nothing you can do about it. It’s life,» he said.
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In comments following his victory, Putin attempted to turn the conversation toward U.S. election issues. He decried the criminal cases stacked up against former President Trump, saying «the whole world is laughing» at the U.S.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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French elections: Riots erupt after left-wing coalition projected to win plurality of seats
Crowds of protesters and celebrators flooded the streets of Paris as French election results began pouring in on Sunday.
On Sunday, French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal announced his intent to resign after a far-left political coalition was poised to win a plurality of French parliamentary seats. The coalition had unexpectedly assembled before the snap elections began.
Tens of thousands of left-wing demonstrators gathered in Paris’s Place de la République on Sunday night to celebrate the news. Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition is projected to take second place.
The results were a huge upset for conservatives in France, who had hoped that Marine Le Pen’s National Rally would take power.
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Social media footage shows massive bonfires in Parisian streets as authorities confronted demonstrators while wearing riot gear.
Tear gas was released as rowdy protesters were arrested. Protesters were also recorded throwing Molotov cocktails in the streets and setting off smoke bombs.
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The left-wing coalition, which is called the Popular Front, is made up of France’s Socialist Party, the French Communist Party, a green political party called the Ecologists and France Unbowed.
The bloc has pledged to institute a number of measures if elected, including scrapping Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform and working towards establishing «a right to retire» at 60 years old.
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The coalition also pledges to increase wages for public sector employees, establish a wealth tax and raise France’s minimum wage.
Reuters and Fox News Digital’s Greg Wehner contributed to this report.
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