Russian electoral-type events 2023-24

[smoltchanov]

If he will be healthy  and no "force major" situations emerge - he will, and will win easily. Sad, but true...

[smoltchanov]

Surely glorious President Prigozhin will be running for reelection.

No. Prigozhin will (temporarily, of course) be in jail by election time (and will be released soon after)))))

[smoltchanov]

Agree with a statement above: Putin could hold absolutely free and fair elections, and (even with alive and healthy Navalny) would rather easily win with about 60% of vote. But he needed "nearly unanimous support" to continue his actions in Ukraine and other areas. That support was guaranteed by exclusion of "inconvenient" candidates and other means. He really had "three nobodies", who, in reality, were even afraid to criticize ANY of his actions, "against" him. Hence - expected result.

[smoltchanov]

It's just desperately sad to see people treating these laughable 'results' even semi-seriously. Even the old Commie hacks during the Cold War didn't pretend, as a rule, that Eastern Bloc elections were 'real'; they made other excuses. Sad, sad, sad.

Agree, I’d rather have a legitimate elected leader like Lukashenko.

Is he really "legitimate"? I have some doubts))))

[smoltchanov]

My prediction is that if he's still alive and in power, Putin gives himself 96% of the vote (with rounding) in 2030.

And that would still be below Brezhnev's era numbers)))))