Kremlin spokesman says Putin will be re-elected with over 90 percent of the vote
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told The New York Times that Russian President Vladimir Putin will be re-elected with 90 percent of the vote in the 2024 Russian presidential election.
Peskov was quoted by The New York Times as saying “our presidential election is not really democracy, it is costly bureaucracy. Mr. Putin will be re-elected next year with more than 90 percent of the vote.”
Asked about Russia’s war against Ukraine, he said “there are currently no grounds for an agreement. We will continue the operation for the foreseeable future.”
He also said that Russia doesn’t seek to annex more territory and that “we just want to control all the land we have now written into our Constitution as ours.” After annexing Ukrainian territory, the self-proclaimed “DNR” and “LNR,” as well as the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, were added to the Russian constitution.
