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Putin gets emotional, claims victory in
Russian election
Monday March 05, 2012 10:38:02 AM,
Agencies
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Moscow:
With tears rolling down his cheeks at a victory rally on Sunday,
Putin said the Russian people had clearly rejected the attempts of
unidentified enemies to "destroy Russia's statehood and usurp
power".
"The Russian people have shown today that such scenarios will not
succeed in our land," said Putin, flanked by outgoing President
Dmitry Medvedev. "They shall not pass!"
"I promised you we would win. We have won. Glory to Russia," Putin
told the rally attended by tens of thousands of supporters in
central Moscow. "We won in an open and fair struggle."
Putin led the pack in early results announced by the Russian
central electoral commission seconds after polls closed in the
country's presidential election.
With half of the votes counted, Putin was leading by a landslide
63.4 per cent.
"It's very clear that very many Russians have voted for Putin, but
they've done so without the same enthusiasm they've had in the
past," Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull said from Moscow.
"Either because they felt there was no viable choice, or because
they had been convinced by the Kremlin rhetoric that Russia would
crumble without him."
Exit polls showed that Putin is set to win with a big majority,
effectively ruling out a second round of voting.
He won 58.3 per cent of the vote according to an exit poll by the
state-controlled VTsIOM research group. A survey by the Public
Opinion Foundation put the figure at 59.3 per cent.
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