"Looks like a tragic farce": Lithuania calls russian presidential election "imitation of voting"
Kyiv • UNN
Lithuania does not consider the March 15-17 presidential elections in russia to be a legitimate democratic expression of will due to repression, fraud, coercion, suppression of the opposition and independent media, and the absence of OSCE observers, which makes Vladimir Putin's new "government" lack any democratic legitimacy.
Lithuania believes that the presidential elections in russia that took place on March 15-17 cannot be considered a democratic expression of will. This is stated in a statement by the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry and the head of the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry Gabrielius Landsbergis, UNN reports.
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According to Landsbergis, given all the coercion, repression, and fraud that took place during the russian "elections," it is impossible to speak of the legitimacy of the results of such elections.
Therefore, we do not consider and do not call this falsified and simulated procedure an election, because, unfortunately, it is more like a tragic farce
Addendum
In a separate statement , the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the russian elections emphasized that the russian authorities resorted to illegal actions against representatives of the opposition and civil society, suppressed independent media, and did not invite OSCE observers to the elections.
In 2024, on March 15-17, the procedure that imitated voting for the President of russia, which took place under conditions of unprecedented restrictions on civil and political rights, cannot be considered an election, as it was neither fair nor free, and did not meet any generally accepted standards of democracy and the rule of law
The ministry also pointed to the death in custody of Putin's critic Alexei Navalny under unclear circumstances, numerous unjustified cases of imprisonment of other Kremlin opponents, and the persecution of dissidents in russia and abroad.
Under such circumstances, the new "powers" received by Vladimir Putin are devoid of any democratic legitimacy
They also emphasize that Lithuania does not recognize the results of the pseudo-elections in the occupied territories of Ukraine and condemns the organization of voting in the occupied territories of Georgia and Moldova.
Recall
Ukraine, 56 other countries and the European Union condemned the illegally organized voting in the russian-occupied territories of Ukraine during the presidential election.
