Putin perpetuates himself in power after the election

The president of Russia, Vladimir Putin, has reached his fifth term in office, in elections described as a “farce” by several international media.

Putin celebrated his “victory” this Monday, where with 25% counted, the president is the winner with 88% of the votes counted, a figure that is considered the highest of the four previous elections.

Putin's rivals have been diminished in this call and dissident voices repressed, especially when a month ago, his main opponent Alexei Navalny, He died mysteriously in a prison near the Arctic Circle.

Still, Russians opposed to Putin's regime gathered at noon outside polling stations on Sunday, the last day of the election, in an apparent response to the opposition's call to express their discontent with the president and the war in Ukraine, points out AP.

Precisely, the military conflict that Putin is carrying out against Ukraine raises questions in this new presidential term, because many analysts believe that the man, who has been governing Russia since 1999, both as prime minister and president, is not going to put an end to a discord that has left more than 300,000 Russians dead and the enlistment of another 300,000 in the last six months, according to Le Figaro from Paris.

Kim Jong Un, North Korean leader, and presidents ideologically related to Putin from Honduras, Nicaragua and Venezuela quickly congratulated Putin on his victory., as do the leaders of the former Soviet nations of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in Central Asia.

The Cuban ruler Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, one of those closest to the Russian dictator, has reacted to this electoral "farce" with a message on the social network X.

The newspaper The Guardian of London stated that "This election mockery will be remembered for the cynical and methodical way in which Putin and his cronies stole the people's right to freely elect Russia's leader.”.

For its part, Le Figaro, describes that “Vladimir Putin finds himself so alone that the fear of his people has to compete with the pleasure of his power. Power isolates, but authoritarian power imprisons. Chained to the totalitarian system he has established and the war he has launched, the untouchable leader of the Kremlin has no choice but to flee forward. Hoping to defeat the same force that made Alexei Navalny so free in his gulag Siberian".

At 71 years old, the re-elected president will be in office, presumably, until 2030. Life or another strategy will be in charge of verifying the veracity of his policies.