The party of Kremlin, United Russiatoday unanimously supported the candidacy of the Russian president during its federal congress, Vladimir Putinfor re-election in the March 2024 elections.
“We do not have the slightest doubt about who should be at the head of the Russian State in this tremendously complicated period, who is behind the historical truthjustice and the support of the majority“, he assured Dmitry Medvedevleader of the official formation.
READ ALSO: A strong storm of wind and rain hits Buenos Aires and its periphery
An incontestable victory
After ensuring that United Russia will do everything possible to Putin achieve a victory again “incontestable” in the presidential elections, he encouraged the delegates present to vote with a show of hands.
“Decision approved unanimously”said Medvedev after those attending the congress raised their hands in the presence of the candidate.
Putin’s victory must be “legitimate and absolutely indisputable”he stressed during an event held in the exhibition park VDNJ in which he also called to curtail all attempts at foreign interference and any provocation that could destabilize the political situation during the election campaign.
Political scientists advance that Putin will receive “a level of support greater than 70%” on March 17, 2024, while some predicted that it will even exceed 2018’s 76.7%.
LEARN MORE: Milei says that “ending inflation” in Argentina is “top priority”
Putin bets on a self-sufficient Russia
When speaking, the president thanked the party for its support and assured that “historical tasks” that faces Russia “demand the unity of all patriotic forces.”
Putin, 71, stressed that Russia has the obligation to “be strong” and make all the decisions “without outside advice from outside.”
“We must remember, never forget and tell our children. EITHER Russia It is self-sufficient, a sovereign power, or it will cease to exist (…) Russia cannot, like some countries, give up its sovereignty in exchange for sausage and become someone’s satellite“, he claimed.
He also ruled out that Western recipes for instigate revolutions popular ones, which produced changes of Government in Ukraine, Georgia or Kyrgyzstan, can function in Russia.
“We must be prepared that the challenges will increase like a snowball. But we are Russia, we are a winter country, right? “We love snow”he claimed.
LOOK HERE: At least 13 dead in Argentina when the roof of a pavilion collapsed due to strong storms
Independent candidate
A popular initiative already supported the candidacy on Saturday Putinwho will run as an independent, as in the last elections.
Those co-religionists of the head of the Kremlin They will now head to the Central Election Commission to register your initiative and begin the process of collecting the necessary 300,000 signatures.
At the moment it is unknown who will be the politicians who will challenge the tenant of the Kremlin next year, although the communists are expected to present their candidate, as are the ultranationalists.
According to official surveys in recent days, 80% of Russians approve of the management of Putinwho has led this country since 2000, with a four-year hiatus (2008-2012) as prime minister.
Although more and more Russians also want peace, Putin this week poured cold water on these hopes in its first big round of war press.
The controversial constitutional reform of 2020 allows the current president to serve two more terms of six years each, until 2036.
The opposition to Kremlin considers that the elections will be a referendum on the current war, in which Russia has not achieved the objectives it set in February 2022 and would have suffered, according to West, more than 300,000 casualties.
