That he will win them is indeed obvious. Since there have not been fair elections in Russia for quite some time, one cannot expect these to be fair.
Also, any relevant opposition tends to end up poisoned or jailed or both.
Hey now, windows and balconies were doing the heavy lifting (dropping?) earlier this year. Must have been a shortage in poison due to the embargos.
Not having elections would make it more transparent to what is going on though. It should not be in Putin's favour to just stop having them. Maybe he can't afford the bill of having one this time.
What transparency do you want after all those jailings and murders?
There is also the added cost of rigging all those machines and stuffing the ballot boxes.
There it is folks.
I’m surprised he waited so long, honestly. all this tip-toeing around rigged elections and shoving his political opponents out of windows into cups of polonium tea is lot of work for a guy who has to shop for gigantic conference tables all day and poop into a collection bag for his secret service guys to catalogue for whatever reason. when you combine all of that with his busy schedule of genociding Ukranians, well… obviously, one of those activities will to have to go. an evil autarch has only so much time in the day!
I think at this moment, there could be protests even with a rigged election. Take away the election entirely and maybe it's a lower chance of protests. No opposition to galvanize around, etc.
Kind of hard to be sarcastic when thinking about that
That's when they stop pretending.
republicans creaming their pants rn.
It would be a “technical violation” of constitution, which apparently is not a crime.
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Special election operation
I just need you to um... find me um... 11,780 votes. C'mon bro, it's just a tiny bit of treason!
These people loves rules and laws, except of course if it applies to them.
I think I understood that this was a reference to that other, very free country (the freeestest of all), where that previous president did...things.
He has achieved conservatism's natural final form of "leadership".
I think at this point he knows that he can do fuck all without any Russian uprising.
IMO we're more likely to see Russia break into a pile of separate republics than a big unified uprising. Maybe that pile of republics gets unified by a new dictator or Putin, maybe not. As it is, the core Russian ethnic group is shrinking while several of the other ethnicities are growing within their respective regions.
Eventually the Russians won't have enough young men to conscript and continue maintaining control of their already massive territory, which will lead to existing regional governments declaring independence while Russia proper will be able to do fuck all about it unless they wanna start nuking their neighbors.
Russia break into a pile of separate republic is practically impossible, as it will cause colossal pain for literally all states. It is much easier to negotiate with one dictator with a nuclear button than with twenty.
Look, I'm not arguing what I think makes sense for people to do, I'm thinking about how people in large groups tend to act, regardless of whether it's logical. Competing for power is inevitable whenever a centralized system can't maintain outright dominance.
then you don't quite understand how the Russian economy works. The regions do not have their own economic system and their own army either. Both money and people pass through Moscow. how to find resources for the collapse in such conditions is unclear to me. If only you believe in the people in a single impulse organizing their own government. This is also very unlikely.
“Our presidential election is not really democracy [...]"
Well, duh!
Russian President Vladimir Putin can choose not to hold presidential elections next year because he will “obviously” win re-election, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said late Sunday.
I agree, why even bother?
If the russian population is eating the bullshit thrown before them, why hold elections... Save yourself the hassle and stop pretend to be a democracy.
And yeah, I imagine the TRUMP-MAGA-GOP is cumming right in their pants without even touching when Putin actually just calls of the elections.
At least he should pretend to get the 101% of the votes
Too lazy
Putin is widely expected to declare his bid for a sixth overall presidential term.
Oh, his "bid"? Is he gonna roll those dice one more time? See if he breaks lucky?
A "bid" would entail something like "chance". And that chance would not depend on the citizens, but on his cronies...
100% chance is still a chance
So, what happened with not serving more than 2 consecutive terms in Russia? Was it already removed?
yeah when he became president again 6 years ago.
Well you can always serve a term as prime minister, then be president again. Just make a small tweak of the office of Prime Minister to being the most powerful position, then when you are ready to be president again, change the most powerful position back to the office of presidency. No violation of consitution, just convienient changes on which office has the actual power.
By the way, this was corrected in the amendments to the constitution 6 years ago. Just when Putin went for a new term "because the constitution was changed, which means it's like zeroing out the terms". If you interesting.
guess he doesn't want to be prime minister again
Well, in 2020 he did make it law that he was dictator for life. So, what's the point of going through the motions anymore?
Don't feel bad for the Russian people.
They deserve this shit for putting up with this year after year as they could clearly see him grabbing more and more power. If they revolted against him 10 or even 15 years ago when he had a fraction of the power that he does now, it never would have gotten so bad and this pointless war in Ukraine might have never happened.
That shithole is nothing but a Potemkin country.
He's afraid Prigozhin will run.
Ahh, I see Russia is playing Tropico in real life
all the manpower they would use to rig the elections is lying in ditches in Ukraine
When was the last time they actually held a real election???
Back in '03
1803 that is.
I'm actually curious how open and fair elections would play out in Russia. I think he would probably still win comfortably if only for the limited amount of information a lot of Russians get. Hell, apparently even toilets are a luxury there.
Something tells me they're going to test this theory lmao
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