“Eternal President”: what is the West’s reaction to the Russian election farce

Vladimir Putin pompously announced that he was going to the so-called “elections” of the President of Russia. He has long been considered the “eternal president.”

About this Channel 24 said Russian publicist from the USA Andrei Piontkovsky, commenting on the future elections in Russia in March 2024.

How the West reacts to Putin's actions

As Piontkovsky noted, in the West there is practically no reaction to Putin's so-called “pre-election campaign”. This is monitored only by the Russians themselves or a small number of people interested in Russia. He has long been perceived as the “eternal president.” Therefore, no one is interested in how Putin is going to formalize all this.

However, recently one of the emigrant groups issued an appeal to Western leaders, governments and societies. They called for drastic steps to declare Putin an illegitimate usurper of power after he takes office again sometime in May 2023.

They called on world leaders to declare Putin an illegitimate president and not maintain relations with them. How will G7? react to this? I don’t rule out any options. I think the world came out of this week in a better state than it went in. All talk about fatigue from Ukraine, it seems to me, has been “nullified,” said Piontkovsky.

Elections in Russia: briefly

• In December, Vladimir Putin “unexpectedly” announced that he was again running for the Russian presidential election. During this, they organized a whole “spectacle” of various occupiers and collaborators for him. To do this, they assembled a team of his various henchmen: singers, military correspondents and other people with dubious reputations
• Putin even went to personally submit documents to the Central Election Commission. There they organized another strange “performance” for him to make everything look believable.