Russia’s undemocratic presidential elections and their illegitimate extension to the occupied territories

AdoptedReference RC-B9-0253/2024Foreign affairs

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How the groups voted

GroupForAgainstAbstainedAbsentUnity

The Left37

19051379%

S&D140

980042100%

Greens/EFA72

580

The European Parliament adopted by 493 votes to 11, with 18 abstentions, a resolution on Russia’s undemocratic presidential elections and their illegitimate extension to the occupied territories.The text adopted in plenary was tabled by the EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA and the ECR groups.The so-called presidential election held by Russia from 15 to 17 March 2024 was conducted without any political competition, in a severely restricted environment of systemic and grave repression and during the Russian Federation’s illegal war of aggression against Ukraine. There were reports of voters being intimidated, voters being denied their right to vote, ballot boxes being stuffed, protocols from the precincts being falsified on a massive scale and…