These will not be real elections: collecting signatures “for Putin” in Zaporozhye has 2 reasons

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A comedy called “Russian presidential elections” continues at TOT. Thus, the occupation administration of Zaporozhye is collecting signatures in support of the nomination of Vladimir Putin as a candidate.

Deputy of the Zaporozhye Regional Council Askad Ashurbekov told 24 Channel that the situation is the same farce as it was with the so-called “local elections” and “referendum”. Everything happens under pressure.

The collection of signatures occurs for 2 reasons

A deputy of the Zaporozhye regional council noted that people try not to express their position, waiting for the occupiers to come home, to businesses or to school, where they pick up their children. The Russians are forcing Ukrainians to sign or express support for Putin.

However, “collecting signatures” is only one of the elements of pressure on the local population, which has no propaganda meaning. One way or another, the signatures will be falsified in favor of the current Russian president.

They do not have the task of making “real” elections. They never did this, but simply increased pressure on the local population, this is the first thing. And secondly, this is a propaganda picture for the Russian domestic consumer, in order to show seemingly support on WOT that the war, according to their logic, is not in vain,” said Askad Ashurbekov.

Russians are working according to “traditional” plan: first they collect signatures, then they form what appear to be public associations and provide support to Vladimir Putin. For the most part, the communities are called “Veterans of the Second World War” or “Veterans of Afghanistan” – these are conditional societies that the Russians created at the beginning of the occupation and demonstrate to the Russian people as “people from the private sector.”