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Many Russians, who fled the war and now live in Serbia, did not choose Putin. He received only 3 percent of their votes, while one of the opponents received 67 percent...
The number of congratulations that Russian President Vladimir Putin has received is small, after what he calls the elections in his country. One of them is the one in which the name of the president of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić, is written, a man whose regime is under scrutiny precisely because of the theft of the December elections. Any similarity is not coincidental.
While European leaders made it clear that elections in Russia cannot be called by that name, Serbia's president boasted that he congratulated Vladimir Putin on his victory.
And so he once again joined the group that includes Chinese President Xi Jinping, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the leaders of Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan... Because there came the applause. for Putin's victory with 87 percent of the vote.
On the other hand, there have been messages from Europe that there is no reason to congratulate, because these elections were neither fair nor honest and that the result was known in advance.
The European Parliament recently assessed the elections in Serbia in similar terms and called for an international investigation.
Although the political situation and the pressure power of the regime in Serbia is not yet close to that in Russia, it is impossible not to see similarities. The president of the European Movement in Serbia, Jelica Minić, said this in a statement for Nova.
President Vučić, with little hesitation, congratulated President Putin on his success in undemocratic elections in Russia, a country that is waging an aggressive war and systematically liquidating the opposition. This was preceded by congratulations from the leader of the Serbian radicals, Seshel, and from the president of Republika Srpska, Dodik, who wrote in the congratulatory message that "the victory of President Putin was greeted with joy by the Serbian people". The logic of the congratulations on behalf of the Serbian people is clear: the Serbian world congratulates the Russian world ", says Minic and adds that considering that only eight percent of the world's population lives in democratic political systems, it should not be surprising that there no greetings from that part of the world.
Asked if there are similarities between the regimes in Serbia and Russia and that this can be seen in the example of the elections, Minic says: " The similarities are obvious, but in Serbia there is potential for change, while in Russia such potential is not seen. Although, many Russians, who fled the war and today live in Serbia, did not choose Putin. He received only 3 percent of their votes, while one of the opponents received 67 percent and the other two from 1 percent. In the example of the diaspora, Putin lost the election. And this is a message ."
How did Putin reach this percentage?
First of all, by changing the Constitution in 2020, which effectively allows Putin to stay in power until 2036. If that happens, he would become Russia's longest-serving ruler, surpassing communist leader Joseph Stalin and Empress Catherine the Great. Madhe who held power for more than 30 years.
His opponents have warned for decades that Putin leaves nothing to chance. It was the same with this election. Secret Kremlin documents, obtained by Western media, revealed that about one billion euros were spent on the operation that made possible the theft of the election. The main segments, as in all previous years, were the formation of public opinion to his liking, propaganda about the war in Ukraine and the "quenching" of the opposition.
For years, Putin has jailed and persecuted opposition leaders, and many of them are now dead — under inexplicable circumstances. One of them is Alexei Navalny, who was found dead in a prison colony in February. His family and the international community blamed the Russian regime for his death
What little remained of the opposition in Russia was prevented from fighting.
Thus, Boris Nadezhdin and Ekaterina Duntsova - real opponents of Putin - were immediately excluded from the election race. In their place, on the ballot were Nikolay Karitonov, Leonid Slutsky and Vladislav Davankov - controlled opponents. /Adapted "Pamphlet" from "Nova"
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