Putin’s popularity in Russia is close to 80% two months before the elections

The popularity of the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, reached 78.8% with two months to go before the presidential elections, according to a survey published this Friday. That figure is five tenths of a percentage point lower than in mid-December (79.3%), according to the survey carried out by the government-run Public Opinion Study Center (Vtsiom).

The popularity of the head of the Kremlin, whom more than two-thirds of Russians also encourage to continue leading the country, has remained around these figures in recent months, despite the Russian military campaign in Ukraine.

76.8% of those surveyed support Putin’s management

Furthermore, according to the survey, 76.8% of those surveyed support the management of Putin, who has been in power since 2000, when he received it from the first democratically elected president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin. Putin, 71, began the year with a clearly electoral-oriented trip that took him for the first time to the easternmost region of Russia, Chukotka.

Although Putin is running as an independent, he has the support of the Kremlin party, United Russia, and the Social Democrats of Fair Russia, who will not present their own candidates.

Its coreligionists have already collected 1.3 million signatures throughout the country, although it only needs 300,000 signatures to register. According to official polls, Putin should win the elections with more votes than in 2018, when he received more than 76% of the votes.

Eleven candidates remain in the presidential race

Russia’s Central Electoral Commission assured this week that eleven candidates remain in the race to run in the presidential elections, although only three have already been registered as full candidates.

The main opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, was transferred to an Arctic prison just after announcing a campaign against Putin’s re-election.

The opposition to the Kremlin considers that the fact that the elections take place over three days (March 15, 16 and 17) and that more than a third of voters can vote electronically are instruments of official fraud. With EFE

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