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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on Dec 20, 2023 21:29:03 GMT
So far the candidates for Putin's electoral type event in March are:
Putin - All Russia People's Front.
Nikolai Kharitonov - Communist
Leonid Slutsky - LDPR
Boris Nadezhdin - Civic Initiative (anti-war candidate)
Yekaterina Duntsova - Independent (anti-war candidate)
Igor Girkin has expressed interest, but is in jail presently.
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Post by peterl on Dec 20, 2023 21:30:55 GMT
Putin Hold. Others can't win here.
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Post by yellowperil on Dec 20, 2023 21:55:22 GMT
Putin Hold. Others can't win here. Where's the bar chart? |
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Post by peterl on Dec 20, 2023 21:56:28 GMT
Putin Hold. Others can't win here. Where's the bar chart? It's such a slam dunk that voters don't even need a bar chart to convince them!  |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Dec 20, 2023 22:00:57 GMT
Putin Hold. Others can't win here. Go back to your constituencies and prepare for defenestration! |
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Post by nelson on Dec 21, 2023 18:11:44 GMT
the candidate for voters preferring dirty politics? |
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Post by froome on Dec 21, 2023 19:03:21 GMT
Putin Hold. Others can't win here. It's a one iron horse race. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Dec 21, 2023 19:24:14 GMT
This Leonid Slutsky should not be confused with former Hull boss Leonid Slutsky:
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Post by Delighted Of Tunbridge Wells on Dec 22, 2023 1:42:27 GMT
Putin Hold. Others can't win here. Go back to your constituencies and prepare for defenestration! What would Putin's version of Focus be? |
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Post by froome on Dec 22, 2023 8:15:12 GMT
Go back to your constituencies and prepare for defenestration! What would Putin's version of Focus be? All the opposition candidates would be described as nazis. |
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Post by jamie on Dec 22, 2023 8:22:53 GMT
What would Putin's version of Focus be? All the opposition candidates would be described as nazis. Given the limits on who can stand, that would not be entirely inaccurate. |
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Post by The Bishop on Dec 22, 2023 12:03:25 GMT
"United Russia, your local choice - and your only choice".
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Dec 22, 2023 13:06:57 GMT
"United Russia, your local choice - and your only choice". A penny on the pound to pay for reeducation. |
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Post by eastmidlandsright on Dec 22, 2023 21:24:04 GMT
"United Russia, your local choice - and your only choice". 2012 was the only time that Putin stood as the United Russia candidate. In all other presidential elections he has stood as an Independent and will probably do so this time. |
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Post by timrollpickering on Dec 23, 2023 16:58:12 GMT
Putin Hold. Others can't win here. It's a one iron horse race. Is Russia really the best country to use horse metaphors about its leaders? |
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Post by timrollpickering on Dec 23, 2023 16:58:48 GMT
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Post by eastmidlandsright on Dec 23, 2023 19:37:39 GMT
Public opinion in Russia is pretty clear. There is no need for this election and there is no appetite for a campaign that could distract Putin from his important duties. He could easily get away with cancelling the elections but we are talking about a man who is legalistic to a fault.
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Post by maxque on Dec 23, 2023 22:44:10 GMT
Public opinion in Russia is pretty clear. There is no need for this election and there is no appetite for a campaign that could distract Putin from his important duties. He could easily get away with cancelling the elections but we are talking about a man who is legalistic to a fault. Is it, through? Nobody is going to be honest about their real opinion in case the person asking is a FSU stooge. |
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on Dec 24, 2023 0:29:46 GMT
Public opinion in Russia is pretty clear. There is no need for this election and there is no appetite for a campaign that could distract Putin from his important duties. He could easily get away with cancelling the elections but we are talking about a man who is legalistic to a fault. Is it, through? Nobody is going to be honest about their real opinion in case the person asking is a FSU stooge. I have no doubt that his support is not as high as it is claimed. Putin has been faced with situations where he's had to be brazen in his attempts to quash opposition before. This was the case with the saga of Yevgeny Roizman, the anti-corruption liberal and pro-Western former Mayor of Yekaterinburg. Roizman was openly anti-Putin, against corruption, and in favour of democracy. He was also popular, he'd worked on the streets of Yekaterinburg for decades before becoming Mayor tackling drug issues, and he would have been re-elected. So, Putin abolished elections to the mayoralty and instead the Mayor is now appointed by the rigged, rubberstamp city Duma. Putin did that out of weakness, not strength. However, it is a fact that Putin has convinced a large number of older Russians of both his pseudohistorical lies, which is what they are, and that the Jewish ethnic Russian President of Ukraine, who was elected on a platform of soft-Russian friendliness, is a secret genocidally Russophobic neo-Nazi. It's a sad state of affairs, but in a free election Putin would probably win - unless his opponent was Navalny. Navalny has been instrumental in exposing younger, and middle aged below fifty years, Russians the reality of corruption in Russia. This is why he has been disappeared into the Russian prison system, and why I worry Putin or his subordinates would commit the grave crime, and mistake from his point of view, of doing to Navalny what he did to Anna Politkovskaya and his supporters to Boris Nemtsov. It's a genuine concern. Putin hates Navalny, viscerally so, and we have seen how detached from reality Putin can be. However, unless it's a figure like Navalny, and there is really only Navalny who can be broad in his appeal, being a Russian nationalist and a pro-Western democrat, Putin would win. |
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Post by Forfarshire Conservative on Dec 24, 2023 10:45:35 GMT
So far the candidates for Putin's electoral type event in March are: Putin - All Russia People's Front. Nikolai Kharitonov - Communist Leonid Slutsky - LDPR Boris Nadezhdin - Civic Initiative (anti-war candidate) Yekaterina Duntsova - Independent (anti-war candidate)Igor Girkin has expressed interest, but is in jail presently. Looks like we can cross Duntsova off the list. |
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