International Desk: The three-day presidential election was held in Russia from March 15 to March 17. After that, the Election Commission of the country started announcing the results on Monday.
Russia’s election commission said at least 30 percent of the votes had been counted. Among them, Vladimir Putin got 87.68 percent.
In addition, Putin’s three rivals received less than four percent of the vote in the results so far.
Communist Party candidate Nikolai Kharitonov got 3.95 percent. Another candidate, businessman Vladislav Davankov, who ran for the newly formed political party “New People,” received 3.81 percent. The third, Leonid Slutsky, got 3 percent. This candidate is a nationalist conservative.
The head of the Central Election Commission of Russia announced that the voter turnout in this year’s presidential election was 74.22 percent.
According to international media reports, it is already certain that the current President Vladimir Putin will win this election and take office for the fifth time. The BBC and Reuters are saying in their live reports that Putin is on the way to absolute victory.
