do I really have to say it???
Posted on 03/04/2012 1:51:15 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
Vladimir Putin has declared victory in Russia's presidential elections, returning for a third term after spending the last four years as the country's PM. Exit polls and preliminary results gave him about 60% of the vote.
Mr Putin told supporters at a rally in central Moscow they had won in an open and honest battle.
But opposition groups have reported widespread fraud, with many people said to have voted more than once.
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"I promised you we would win, and we won," he said, with tears in his eyes. "Glory to Russia!"
"We have won in an open and honest battle.
"We proved that no-one can force anything on us."
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(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Why did they even waste time on an election? The fanfare was probably nice. But the resentment, on both sides, could very well ... Don’t know.
Gosh! What a shocker!
What kind of government does Russia have now, that it has both a prime minister and a president? Either one or the other will be a figurehead, or else there is going to be a tension over the “controlling legal authority” in the executive. I freely admit I do not grok Russian constitutions.
Many countries have a president and a Prime minister. Isreal comes to mind. I think Germany does as well.
We looked into pootie poot’s eyes and the abyss stared back.
Then there’s a Queen and a Prime Minister. Kinda like a VP.
Almost all of the opposition against Putin was rigged too. Come on, Zyuganov was an opposition leader, as part of the Russian Communist Party? Give me a break. Zyuganov is part of the show there. Putin and Zyuganov are close friends.
What was Stalin’s quote?
“It’s not who votes that counts; it who counts the votes.”
Of course he got re-elected.
Bill Clinton: Let presidents serve three terms
Politico
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Posted on Tuesday, November 08, 2011 8:54:43 AM by Sub-Driver
[What kind of government does Russia have now, that it has both a prime minister and a president.]
An Oligarchic Kleptocracy, same as usual.
Was he elected, or ‘elected’?
Russia is so divided right now that im afraid that Putin would launch a war as a way to pull together unity and keep his strangle hold on that country.
In pseudo-Soviet Russia Putin elects himself.
Wait for his endorsment of tovarisch Barry for a second term.
I’m waiting for Jimmy Carter to say this was a fair election.
Stalin Junior in again. Oh, wait, he never really left did he. A dictator he is.
do I really have to say it???
I had t throw up. This guy is a dictator, plain and simple.
The Russians seem to have a ‘quasi-presidential’ model of government like the French where the president is the head of government and the prime minister operates under him and essentially has an administrative role. Sri Lanka and Pakistan have similar systems.
Israel and Germany have a parliamentary model where the president’s post is mostly ceremonial.
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