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When asked how they feel about the head of state, 21% of the more than 1,6000 people polled said that they were sympathetic towards Putin and a further 8% say they admire him. Around 27% couldn’t say a bad word about him, while a further 9% have nothing good to say about him. Nearly one in six people have no strong feelings either way.
However, a total of 47% of people argued that they would like to see Putin stay on in the presidency after 2024, when his current term is set to expire, RT reports. 42% said they would not, the highest number since 2013, when 45% opposed the idea of Putin returning as president. However, he was ultimately re-elected with close to 65% of the vote.
Over a quarter of those asked (26%) said that there is a cult of personality behind Putin in Russia, more than at any point in the last ten years. 21% said there is no cult at this moment, but there are prerequisites for its emergence, and 41% said there is no cult nor any signs of one in the future. On this question, a third of 18-24-year-olds (32%) are certain that a Putin personality cult exists and 30% believe one could exist in the future.
Views were mixed on Navalny too, who is often presented as Putin’s main challenger in domestic politics.
Overall, 35% of respondents gave Navalny’s strategic voting initiative – voters in September’s Duma election were ask to vote for any candidate that might defeat the incumbent United Russian candidate -- a positive assessment, while 48% gave it a negative review.
As bne IntelliNews reported the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (KPRF) were the biggest winners vote. The ruling United Russia won 324 seats out of 450 and 49.8% of the vote. KPRF won 57 seats, A Just Russia – For Truth got 27, the Liberal Democrats got 21, and New People won 13.
The Levada Center also tried to determine the level of support for an “Alexey Navalny party,” if it were running against United Russia, the KPRF, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR), Yabloko, and A Just Russia. Navalny has never been able to set up a party and his Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) was banned as extremist earlier this year.
The results show that just 5% of respondents would vote for the “Navalny party,” allowing it to pass the threshold for entering the State Duma. However, Navalny’s party also had the highest anti-rating: 30% of respondents said they wouldn’t vote for it under any circumstances. By comparison, 26% of respondents said the same about United Russia, and 16% said this about the KPRF.
2.6 Russia working on a strategic transformation plan
25 RUSSIA Country Report November 2021 www.intellinews.com
The Bell found and studied the final version of the main strategic document of the government of Mikhail Mishustin - a unified plan to achieve national goals until 2030.