The Commission Electoral Central (CEC) of Russia reported that the State has allocated more than 33,233 million rubles (369.4 million dollars) for the elections presidential elections next March, in which the Russian president has already confirmed his participation, Vladimir Putin.
As reported by the vice president of the CEC, Nikolai Buláyev, cited by the Russian agency Interfax, 217 million rubles (2.41 million dollars) will be used to pay for the work of the electoral commission.
A total of 32,846 million rubles (365 million dollars) will be allocated to the preparations and celebration of the elections at the national level.
In addition, 170 million rubles ($1.89 million) will cover the costs electoral in Russian diplomatic legations abroad and military units that open polling stations.
Las elections Russian presidential elections, scheduled for March 17, 2024, were convened on December 7 by the Senate.
The next day, Putin announced during a decoration ceremony for soldiers participating in the war in Ukraine his decision to run for the re-election.
After the start of the pandemic, in 2020, the votes of almost all elections In the country they are carried out for several days, a procedure argued for sanitary measures, but which according to the opposition facilitates fraud.
The upcoming presidential elections will not be an exception, since Russians will vote for three days, from March 15 to 17, according to the CEC.
The opposition to the Kremlin maintains that the possibility of voting for 72 hours promotes official fraud and makes it difficult to control the counting, just like electronic voting.
The president of the CEC, Ela Pamfilova, indicated that Moscow will invite foreign observers, although the presence of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), which has always been very critical of Russian democratic credentials, is ruled out.
2023-12-13 23:05:24
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