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Putin’s party loses A THIRD of seats in Moscow election bloodbath

2019-09-10

[THESUN.CO.UK] Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party has sensationally lost a THIRD of its seats in Moscow in a local election bloodbath.

Sunday’s poll was one of the most closely watched regional elections in years after many opposition candidates were excluded triggering the capital’s biggest protests in nearly a decade.

Vladimir Putin

...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
's United Russia lost a third of its seats in Moscow's local electionsCredit: AFP or licensors
The vote was seen by outspoken opposition politician Alexei Navalny and his allies as an opportunity to make inroads against United Russia ahead of the 2021 national election.

Protests erupted in mid-July after the Central Election Commission refused to register a large number of opposition candidates, saying they had failed to collect enough signatures from genuine backers.

The excluded candidates, including allies of Navalny, slammed the move claiming it was designed to stop them winning seats in Moscow’s parliament.

Navalny advised his supporters to vote tactically across Russia for the candidate with the best chance of defeating Putin’s party.

Posted by:Fred

#5 Moscow =/= Russia

Posted by: Lex 2019-09-10 12:01

#4 Well, it's Russia.

Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-09-10 11:38

#3 Putin has destroyed his nation's chance at success. Whatever few good policies he has had have come completely by accident as he faces off against his southern Islamic neighbors in Chechnya. He has nearly destroyed the Ukraine, prevented any real economic, social, or political progress from occurring in Russia, and kept himself and his chosen few oligarchs incredibly wealthy and isolated from the troubles that Russia faces.

Posted by: Vernal Hatrick 2019-09-10 10:15

#2 Only progress in Russia has been in Putties bank balance.

Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2019-09-10 08:05

#1 Typical UK journalists. Intentionally misleading headline and the word 'Bloodbath' sewn in insidiously, giving it the KЯemlin tinge.

I wouldn't want anybody but Vlad in Russia if I was a russkie. There are several anti-establishment types, russkie versions of AOC and even secular, diversity loving islamophile globalists trying to play 'fearless quixotic leader' there. Gotta be held in check or they'll turn back whatever progress Russia has made with Putin.

Posted by: Dron66046 2019-09-10 07:50

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