They even put pressure on the parents of schoolchildren: in Crimea they actively forced them to participate in the “Putin elections”

The so-called President elections. Voting also took place in temporarily occupied Crimea. The occupiers are already reporting that 89.76% of the population on the peninsula took part in the elections.

About this < strong>24 Channel was told by member of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people Eskender Bariev, noting that it was very important for the Russians to demonstrate that a very large number of Crimean residents took part in the voting. That is why they resorted to various forms of pressure to force people to join the elections.

People left Crimea during elections

The occupiers practiced the voting scheme for the 2024 elections back in 2023. Then they collected relevant information, worked out the electronic voting method.

This time the Russians carried out “work” among employees of state enterprises who receive salaries from the budget. They were required to vote, record their participation in the elections in a photo and report this to the leaders.

Control of employees of government agencies, enterprises, schools. They even put pressure on the parents of schoolchildren,” noted a member of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people.

At the same time, in the temporarily occupied Crimea, many cases were recorded when residents demonstrated their protestagainst the so-called elections. There were attempts to fill the ballots with green paint in Simferopol, Yalta and other populated areas.

The occupiers tried to locate additional mobile polling stations in the territory densely populated by Crimean Tatars , realizing that they themselves will not go to the polls. They also went door to door, “inviting” all residents of the appropriate age to go vote, noted Bariev.

Although the occupation authorities tried to use coercive means to ensure that people participated in the elections, On the eve of the vote, many residents of Crimea traveled outside the peninsula so as not to take part in it.

“At that At the same time, these elections are illegal, just like those that were held in Crimea starting in 2014. We called on people not to take part in them and boycott them, since now Crimea is an occupied territory,” noted Eskender Bariev.

How the so-called presidential elections went in Russia< /h2>

• From March 15 to 17, voting took place in Russia, as well as in the occupied territories of Ukraine. According to its results, after counting 100% of the protocols, Vladimir Putin had already allegedly “gained” more than 80% of the votes. receiving 93.60% “support”. The turnout for the elections on the peninsula was supposedly 89.76%.
• At the same time, voting was accompanied by high-profile incidents. At many polling stations, people damaged ballots by pouring green paint and paint on them. They also committed arson, threw firecrackers and Molotov cocktails, which caused fires in the areas.