The British Foreign Secretary, Lord Cameron has gave a knock on the Russia election, stating that President Vladimir Putin tighten his grip on power following the stifling of any real opposition.
According to the results showed on Sunday, Putin won nearly 88% of the vote cast in the election.
The result so far announced by Russia’s Central Election Commission would be a record for Putin, extending his nearly quarter-of-a-century rule for another six-year term.
Putin has only three candidates challenging him in the poll. The candidates were those who had not criticized his rule or his invasion of Ukraine.
Some of Putin’s oppositions including Arch foe, Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic prison last month, while other critics are either in jail or in exile.
Meanwhile, independent monitoring of the election was extremely limited, with the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, OSCE, not invited to observe the three-day vote.
Cameron in a tweet on his official page, said, “this is not what free and fair elections look like”.
“The polls have closed in Russia, following the illegal holding of elections on Ukrainian territory, a lack of choice for voters and no independent OSCE monitoring.”
“This is not what free and fair elections look like.”
