Russian President, Vladimir Putinassured two months before the elections in which he is seeking re-election that the US presidential elections, in which a Democrat was elected Joe Bidenwere fraudulent.

During a meeting with municipal officials, Putin assured that by using mail voting, The elections were “rigged”: “Perhaps everything can be faked. And The last elections in the USA were rigged. By voting by mail. “It’s clear what it means to vote by mail.”

He explained that “they bought ballots for $10, filled them out and without any control from observers They put them in mailboxes and that’s it.“.

The Russian opposition, led by prisoner Alexei Navalny, who is serving 30 years in an Arctic prison, accuses the Kremlin of preparing election fraud using this electronic voting method, which more than a third of registered voters have access to, as well as during the three voting days scheduled from March 15 to 17.

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Exactly two months before the elections, the president’s team has already assembled 2.5 million signatures For register your candidacy.

On its website, the presidential team stresses that while Putin only needs 300,000 signatures to register his candidacy, the process is not yet complete and is coming from different regions of Russia. the signatures keep coming.

Dmitry PeskovThe president’s spokesman said during his daily telephone press conference that “if this is proposed, many more signatures could be collected in favor of Putin, probably up to ten times more“.

Putin is independent candidateHowever, the Kremlin party United Russia, as well as volunteer organizations throughout the country, are actively collecting signatures.

“It is obvious that for any candidate popular support is the most important thing […]“The level of support for the president, the level of consolidation of society around his figure, of all ages, is difficult to overestimate,” Peskov said.

According to polls, Putin, who has 78.8% popularityshould win the election with more votes than in 2018, when he received more than 76% of the vote.

(according to information from EFE)