In Crimea and Sevastopol, less than half of voters came to the polls
Moscow - Simferopol, September 15 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The turnout in the first elections to the State Council of the Republic and the Legislative Assembly of Sevastopol after the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation was about 45%. Many voters were not on the lists. The majority of Crimeans voted for “United Russia” because “Putin is there” and they are “for Russia”. According to exit polls, the party in power in Crimea received more than 70%, Kommersant reports.
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In Sevastopol, about 45% of voters voted in elections to the legislative assembly and municipal councils. This is almost two times less than in the referendum on the annexation of Crimea to the Russian Federation, when the turnout was almost 90%, and less than in the 2012 elections, when Sevastopol residents elected deputies to the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (49,6%).
Acting Governor of Sevastopol Sergei Menyailo, number two on the United Russia list, is not registered in the city, so he did not take part in the voting. “To register, you need your own apartment. I’ll get it only after we sort out the queue for social housing, and I have the financial ability to rent an apartment,” he explained.
The first number on the United Russia list, the head of the Agency for Strategic Development, Alexey Chaly, said that he was “going to vote for the future of the city,” but hid the place. In the evening he flew to Moscow. Mr. Chaly refused to specify with whom he would meet.
Half of the 40 thousand military and civilian personnel of the Black Sea Fleet (BSF) managed to vote before eleven o’clock, said Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Black Sea Fleet Yuri Orekhovsky.
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