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Putin, the right man, at the right place, at the right time, won with over 64%

‘We won!’ Teary-eyed Putin proclaims victory

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Vladimir Putin, set to win a third presidential term, declared his victory and thanked his voters for their support. Polling at over 64 percent with over half of the votes counted, victory seems assured.

We have won in an open and fair struggle,” Putin said addressing 110,000 people, who gathered on Manezhnaya Square outside the Kremlin walls.

He stressed that this victory signals a defeat for those who want to destroy Russia.

This was more than just a presidential election this was a very important test for us – a test for political maturity of our people and independence. We have demonstrated that nobody can impose anything on us we have shown that our people are capable of telling the difference between the desire for novelty and progress from political provocations that pressure with only one goal – to destroy Russia. Today our people have proved that such scenarios are not going to work in our country,” Putin said.

“We will work honestly and intensely and we will achieve success we encourage you all to unite for the benefit of our or nation and out homeland.”

Putin, who is likely to win the election with over 60 per cent of the vote, appeared on stage with outgoing President Dmitry Medvedev, who also thanked all of Putin’s supporters.

Thank you all for supporting our candidate. We all needed this victory our country needed it each one of needs this victory we will not give it away to anybody,” the president said.

In 2008, when Dmitry Medvedev won the presidential race, they also came out together to give speeches.

Speaking to his supporters, Vladimir Putin had tears in his eyes. This sparked an online frenzy, with many bloggers crestfallen with what was perceived as an emotional reaction, while others accused Putin of crying over an “evil triumph.” Putin later said the cold wind had made his eyes water.

It was windy, windy it was,” he told journalists, arriving at his headquarters.

RT.com – 3 Mar 2012

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Putin wins 3rd presidential term
with over 60% – preliminary results

Preliminary results show Vladimir Putin securing 64.87 per cent of votes in Russia’s presidential election, with his closest rival Gennady Zyuganov taking 17.02 per cent.

So far, the Central Election Commission has counted over two thirds of the ballots.

Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Mikhail Prokhorov are waging a real political battle for third place, with both winning the support of less than 7 per cent of voters. Sergey Mironov is running fifth, with some 3.72 per cent of votes cast.

Exit polls show results similar to the CEC’s intermediate data. According to a Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM) survey, about 58.3 per cent of Russians cast their votes for Vladimir Putin, while Gennady Zyuganov got the support of 17.7 per cent of the country’s voters.Mikhail Prokhorov, Vladimir Zhirinovsky and Sergey Mironov won 9.2, 8.5 and 4.8 per cent of the votes respectively. Around 1.5 per cent of the respondents said they had trashed their ballots.

Vladimir Putin and outgoing president Dmitry Medvedev came out to address thousands of people gathered at Manezhnaya Square. Putin thanked his supporters, telling them, “we have won in an open and fair struggle.”

Russian election authorities will continue counting ballots under observer supervision. But intermediate exit poll data from across the country show that the majority of Russians want to see the current prime minister as their new president.

According to the preliminary data from Russia’s Central Election Commission, over 63.3 per cent of registered voters went to the polling stations Sunday. The figure is lower than during the previous presidential election, in 2008, but higher than during the parliamentary election in 2011.

Observers reported a number of violations during the vote across the country. Results at one polling station in Dagestan, in the North Caucasus, will be annulled due to a video recorded by one of the webcams. It showed several people casting multiple ballots. Vladimir Putin’s campaign headquarters says it will demand the cancelation of results at every polling station where such serious violations are revealed.

Russians have demonstrated an unprecedented level of political engagement leading up to the vote. Hundreds of thousands of independent vote observers were spread nationwide, and every ballot box was under the watchful eye of live webcams.

The overall organization of the election process and the monitoring system has received positive feedback from the majority of Russian and international independent observers.

Such measures follow allegations of widespread vote violation in a December parliamentary vote leading to a number of mass protests across the country. The authorities tried to satisfy people’s call for fair elections and made the vote as transparent as possible.

Voting opened at 12 pm Moscow time in the country’s most eastern areas, including Chukotka, Magadan, and Kamchatka, and ended at 9 pm in the western Kaliningrad region.

RT.com – 4 Mar 2012

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