Putin is not alone – 10 power-hungry actors who reached 100%. support

Joseph Stalin

One of the most famous rulers of the Soviet Union was Joseph Stalin. Renowned for his brutality, Mr. Stalin remained in power in Moscow for three decades until his death in 1953. Elections during his tenure were predictable, with high voter turnout and 100 percent turnout. votes for a non-party communist tyrant.

Sadaam Hussein

Iraqi President Saddam Hussein improved his personal electoral record and in 2002 collected 100 percent in the referendum of votes.

The Guardian reported that voters gave the 65-year-old president another seven-year term, with some voters marking their yes or no ballots with bloody fingerprints in an alleged show of loyalty.

Voter turnout was impossible to gauge because foreign election observers were barred from the election and journalists were restricted to certain areas, but Izzat Ibrahim, deputy chairman of the Revolutionary Leadership Council, said all 11 million people voted. eligible voters.

Saparmurat Niyazov

in 1992 Niyazov “won” the first presidential election in Turkmenistan and ushered in a Soviet-style dictatorship. He was selected by the Council of Ministers in 1999. elected him president for life. in 2001 The World Humanitarian Association of Ethnic Turkmen voted to add the word “Beyt” which means “great” to Mr. Niyazov’s last name.

State newspapers were full of letters from citizens declaring their love for Niyazov.

During his reign, thousands of statues of S. Niyazov were erected throughout the country. One of them was 75 years old. height, which was removed and rebuilt on another pedestal in 2011.

Airports, regions, meteorites, cities and schools have been named after the president and his parents. Meetings held in his office were televised and shown weekly on three state television channels.

Kim Jong Un

in 2011 Kim Jong Un succeeded his father as North Korea’s third supreme leader to rule the country from his own family dynasty. Since then, the country has held largely symbolic parliamentary elections, which usually have a turnout of 99.99 percent. electorate and in which people vote yes or no for a single candidate. Each candidate usually collects, 100 percent. votes in their constituencies, including Kim Jong Un in 2014. and his sister Kim Yo Jong in 2019.

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi

Egypt’s Presidential Electoral Commission (PEC) announced former army commander A.-Fattaho El-Sisi as the new president of Egypt and confirmed that on May 26-28. he collected 23.78 million in the last election. votes (96.91%).

A.-Fattah al-Sisi’s only rival, the leftist Hamdeen Sabahi, got 3.09 percent. of votes.

According to Judge Anwar al-Assi, 25 million people voted in the election. of voters, i.e. voter turnout reached 47.5 percent. There were more spoiled votes than votes for H. Sabahi – 1 million. invalid ballots.

It was the first foreign-observed election in Egypt’s history. The European Union has deployed 150 observers across Egypt, which the EU says have maintained impartiality, failed to legitimize Egypt’s electoral process and failed to certify election results. The African Union and the Arab League also observed the election.

A subsequent statement by the EU mission detailed several violations, notably biased coverage in favor of Fattah al-Sisi in private media, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s election campaign spending that exceeded the limits set by the PEC, and an atmosphere of suppressed discord.

Bashar al-Assad

Bashar al-Assad He has been the president of Syria since 2000, when his father, Hafez al-Assad, died after ruling for 30 years.

During his rule, B. Assad repeatedly achieved crushing electoral “victories”: in 2014 collected almost 89 percent. votes, and in 2021 – more than 95 percent votes, and all these elections were considered rigged. These major victories have come amid a devastating civil war in which Assad (with the help of Putin, by the way) has crushed a diverse opposition, killing hundreds of thousands of people in more than a decade of conflict.

Ilham Aliyev

Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev received almost 94 percent. votes during rigged elections in the South Caucasus.

Aliyev, whose country will host the COP29 UN climate change summit later this year, has secured a fifth term as leader of a country that ranks among the world’s least free. Outside observers said the election was marred by a crackdown on opposition activists and journalists.

Vladimir Putin

The leader of the Russian regime, Vladimir Putin, after a three-day and March 17 after the rigged presidential vote ended, he said his big victory was a public mandate to do the right thing on the war in Ukraine and on various domestic issues.

There is a certain regularity in the presidential elections in which V. Putin participates: his results are getting better every time. in 2012 he got 63.6 percent. votes, and in 2018, when the term of office of the president was extended to six years, 76.7 percent. of votes. Experts expected that this time the Kremlin will count about 80 percent. votes, but V. Putin received even more – 87 percent.

“almost 76 million people” voted for V. Putin. people,” said CRK head Ela Pamfilova after more than 99 percent were counted. of votes. “This is a record number,” she said, adding: “In front of the West, we have shown that we are united.”

About 22 million votes that Vladimir Putin received during the Russian presidential election were falsified – this was the conclusion of election analyst Ivan Shukshin, who analyzed the data of the Russian Central Election Commission (CRK) using the Kisling-Shpilkin method.

Alexander Lukashenko

in 2020 in August, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko won 80% of the votes in the Belarusian presidential elections. votes and secured another mandate.

The election results, which were seen as unfair and came after he jailed opposition leader Sergei Tsykhanouski, the husband of his successor Sviatlana Tsychanouskaia, sparked a wave of mass, fruitless protests across the country, with pro-democracy groups and opposition leaders calling for Lukashenko’s ouster. Since 1994 In power, Lukashenko took a few pages out of Putin’s playbook on how to run the country, cracking down on opposition and changing laws to gain immunity for life.