Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to endorse his two-decade rule by 2022, as the Kremlin is known for its massive efforts to support Marshall.
Former KGB Colonel Putin, who came to power in 2000, is already a longtime Russian leader after Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin. The Russian leader has proposed an amended constitution that will give him the right to contest a six-and-a-half-year term following his current mandate in 2024.
"We vote for the country we work for and we want to hand over our children and granddaughters," Putin told Russians in a televised speech on Tuesday. Voting began last week and an exit poll released by What sum Monday showed 76% support the amendments. According to the Central Election Commission, voting has already reached 46%.
Amid public discontent, officials pulled out all the stops to vote in overwhelming numbers and get re-approved in Putin. He, along with popular sweets such as Rafael, lured the Russians with an effective constitutional ban on same-sex marriage, stopping any campaign against the 'ist' vote.
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According to Moscow chief Alexei Mukhin, with the simple majority and more than 50% of voters voting, the Kremlin should be satisfied with over 70% support on both measures. Political Information Center.
Putin, 67, faces a slowdown in his approval rating as the Russian economy is impacted by the coronavirus epidemic and falling oil prices. After getting out of the referendum, the Russian president will have to face the task of navigating through the deep recession of his time.
"This system is the most serious challenge put before Putin," said Nikolai Petrov, a London-based Chatham's think tank. He said Putin's future was not based on his past successes, but on how successful he was in bringing Russia out of the current crisis.
Putin surprised many in his inner circle when he announced plans to adopt the most comprehensive reforms since the constitution was adopted in 1993. But the section that allowed them to cross the border did not come out until March. Some officials later suspected that his plan was over.
According to the Independent Pollutant Levada Center in Moscow, Putin's popularity rating in 2000 - still respectable by Western standards - has been the lowest since he became president in 2000.
According to the International Monetary Fund, Russia's economy is down 6.6% this year, the worst contraction since 2009 in the wake of the global financial crisis. Unemployment rose to 6.7% in March as real income fell.
During the vote, Putin called for victory over the Russians by revealing the latest cash payments for families and the unemployed and a tax hike for the rich.
Mikhail Vinogradov, head of the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation, said at the same time that he was openly trying to reduce opposition morale by suggesting that he would run for president again in 2024 and take fresh action against critics.
Less than half of Levada's latest survey, conducted in late May, supported constitutional reform. Poll watchdog group Golos said the first-ever large-scale online voting and the week-long voting system has led to an infringement on independent observers.
"The manner in which this vote is conducted is not in line with the Russian constitution or the international expression of expression," Golos said in a statement Tuesday. Several violations were found during the ballot beginning June 25-30, including ballot disturbances, abuse of power, illegal campaigning, and forcing citizens to vote.
Kremlin officials said any violations were being investigated, but they were not comprehensive enough to doubt the validity of the vote.
After the referendum, "everyone's anger is against the government," said sociologist Olga Kristinovskaya, who studies elites at the State University of Management in Moscow. "People have a lot of complaints."
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