Election in Russia sees Putin's United Russia Party returned to power, against all expectations
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[quote]United Russia, backed by President Vladimir Putin, has won a majority in the country's parliamentary election, far ahead of rival parties. With 93% of the votes counted, the party has secured 54.2% of ballots and 343 seats in the 450-member parliament, officials say. Mr Putin said his party had "achieved a very good result", however the turnout was a record low of 47.8%.
The Communist Party and nationalist LDPR both secured just over 13%. The party A Just Russia gained just over 6% of the votes. All four parties are loyal to Mr Putin and dominated the last parliament, or State Duma. Mr Putin has enjoyed 17 years in power as either president or prime minister.[/quote]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37403242[/url]
Not a big surprise.Probably the elections were rigged as usual but i don't know.And now Putin has enough power to change the constitution from what they say.
So what did the votes total up to this time around? 115%? :v:
[QUOTE=Sgt.Kickass;51075769]Not a big surprise.Probably the elections were rigged as usual but i don't know.And now Putin has enough power to change the constitution from what they say.[/QUOTE]
He could probably change the constitution if he wanted regardless if his party won or not. He can just have opposition suffer an unfortunate "accident".
Looks like 50 million people who haven't voted are ok with most of the United Russia's bullshit laws like [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dima_Yakovlev_Law"]Dima Yakovlev Law[/URL], [URL="https://torrentfreak.com/new-russian-anti-piracy-law-could-block-sites-forever-150425/"]Anti-piracy Law[/URL] (which is used for banning everything they want) and [URL="http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/07/economist-explains-17"]Yarovaya's Anti-Terror Law[/URL].
My favorite part
[QUOTE]All four parties are loyal to Mr Putin and dominated the last parliament[/QUOTE]
Just name him Czar and be done with it.
Why does nobody overthrow this dickhead
[QUOTE=proboardslol;51075842]Why does nobody overthrow this dickhead[/QUOTE]
Anyone with remotely the power to do that is too busy sucking his dick.
And he has pretty high support throughout the country.
[QUOTE=proboardslol;51075842]Why does nobody overthrow this dickhead[/QUOTE]
a lot of russian people either like him or are apathetic
[QUOTE=Megalan;51075797]Looks like 50 million people who haven't voted are ok with most of the United Russia's bullshit laws like [URL="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dima_Yakovlev_Law"]Dima Yakovlev Law[/URL], [URL="https://torrentfreak.com/new-russian-anti-piracy-law-could-block-sites-forever-150425/"]Anti-piracy Law[/URL] (which is used for banning everything they want) and [URL="http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2016/07/economist-explains-17"]Yarovaya's Anti-Terror Law[/URL].[/QUOTE]
"the strictness of Russian laws is compensated by the unnecessariness of their execution"
[url=http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/19/494549560/putins-united-russia-party-wins-big-in-election-some-ballot-stuffing-seen]At least one incident of ballot-stuffing was caught on camera; officials say results from that station won't be counted.[/url]
It's a joke. The world's second largest super power and first largest demockracy got caught on CCTV.
now there's only one independent member of the state duma
and it's putin (he's the head of the party but not formally a member of united russia)
[QUOTE=VeniVidiVici74;51075972][url=http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/19/494549560/putins-united-russia-party-wins-big-in-election-some-ballot-stuffing-seen]At least one incident of ballot-stuffing was caught on camera; officials say results from that station won't be counted.[/url]
It's a joke. The world's second largest super power and first largest demockracy got caught on CCTV.[/QUOTE]
As far as I can tell they shouldn't even bother going through the effort of counting results from any station. It's a sad joke that becomes even more tragic when you remember that the Republican nominee for president in my own country praises Putin's "strong leadership".
60% of Russia simply did not participate the vote out of misplaced "it's all rigged".
No shit! They litterally had to "make up" some vote bailouts to count for it!
I mean, i [I]can[/I] believe that United Russia party got around 37% of total vote - that means they are supported by 1/5 of nation wich is close to reality, and therefor had to compensate around 20% by a rig vote to remain majority in Duma.
With that said, if other 4/5 of people actually voted responsibly, even with EdRo's 20% rig of vote they would not stand against a [B]HUGE[/B] overflow of vote against their party.
Soo i guess Russian people get what they deserve - it was a sunday afternoon, and most poeple simply sat on their asses at home without excuse.
[QUOTE=VeniVidiVici74;51075972][url=http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/19/494549560/putins-united-russia-party-wins-big-in-election-some-ballot-stuffing-seen]At least one incident of ballot-stuffing was caught on camera; officials say results from that station won't be counted.[/url]
It's a joke. The world's second largest super power and [b]first largest demockracy[/b] got caught on CCTV.[/QUOTE]
India, the United States, Indonesia and Brazil are all democracies with a larger population than Russia
[QUOTE=karimatrix;51076018]
Soo i guess Russian people get what they deserve - it was a sunday afternoon, and most poeple simply sat on their asses at home without excuse.[/QUOTE]
Well it took much consideration for me to sit on my ass at home. Less so to tell everyone I know not to vote as well.
In my defence I overslept the elections.
[QUOTE=proboardslol;51075842]Why does nobody overthrow this dickhead[/QUOTE]
The opposition is a fucking shitshow due to a combination of intimidation, forced exile, targeted arrests/killings, and to top it off, the remnants are too busy fighting each other to actually mount an effective campaign.
It's like the Judean groups from Life of Brian:
[video=youtube;kHHitXxH-us]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHHitXxH-us[/video]
[QUOTE=maniacykt;51076399]In my defence I overslept the elections.[/QUOTE]
Don't you get all day to vote?
[QUOTE=maniacykt;51076399]In my defence I overslept the elections.[/QUOTE]
Don't worry, they voted Putin's Party for you
[QUOTE=Janus Vesta;51076664]Don't you get all day to vote?[/QUOTE]
One common voter suppression tactic, even in the US, is to have the polls open at inconvenient times. For example, the polling station may be open in the morning but close mid-afternoon, which prevents working people from voting unless they take a day off or get special permission from their boss.
Nah, at was expected, especially considering shit our opposition said.
The unexpected thing was LDPR getting so much votes.
And well, I know the representative from my region, so he got my vote.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;51077165]One common voter suppression tactic, even in the US, is to have the polls open at inconvenient times. For example, the polling station may be open in the morning but close mid-afternoon, which prevents working people from voting unless they take a day off or get special permission from their boss.[/QUOTE]
In Canada we're legally entitled to take a few hours off work (I forget how many exactly) on an election day so we can vote. I'm surprised this isn't a thing in other countries.
[QUOTE=maniacykt;51076399]In my defence I overslept the elections.[/QUOTE]
What the fuck, man. It went on for 12 hours.
My fave part about this election is how they moved it from December to a September weekend. A lot of people were still busy with their gardening, so, presumably, this is why the turnout is so low.
"returned to power against all expectations"
this feels like satire
[QUOTE=Rent-a-BoxHouse;51077740]"returned to power against all expectations"
this feels like satire[/QUOTE]
It is sobot is a big critic of Russia's government
so the Kremlin didn't lose the results this time?
[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;51077843]It is sobot is a big critic of Russia's government[/QUOTE]
Ah, I see. Joke's on me for thinking that was the actual BBC headline :v:
[QUOTE=Demeschik;51077631]
My fave part about this election is how they moved it from December to a September weekend. A lot of people were still busy with their gardening, so, presumably, this is why the turnout is so low.[/QUOTE]
Regardless of reasons, t's still pretty telling that the majority of people preferred to do something else rather than waste time playing stupid games with Kremlin. That's a good thing, people know that Kremlin's [i]elections[/i] have very little to do with elections and "vote" against this situation.
Hell, for once I actually feel some pride for my people.
[QUOTE=proboardslol;51075842]Why does nobody overthrow this dickhead[/QUOTE]
Not everyone craves democracy.
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