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 Alexander Veshnyakov met President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, congratulating him
Central Election Commission (CEC) chief Alexander Veshnyakov met President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, congratulating him on a landslide victory in the March 14 presidential election.
The CEC studied the documents provided by the election commissions of all the Russian constituent members and 353 precincts beyond Russia at today`s meeting and found the presidential election legitimate, said Mr Veshnyakov.
"According to the election results, Vladimir Putin was re-elected president for the second term," said the CEC chief.
Mr Veshnyakov updated the president on the protocol of election results.
According to official data, 69,581,761 Russian nationals came to the polls, 49,565,238 of them, or 71.31%, cast their votes for Vladimir Putin.
Mr Veshnyakov emphasised that not a single dissenting opinion had been registered in the protocols.
The CEC chief pointed to a great number of foreign observers who monitored the election campaign. The OSCE, the CIS and 40 other countries from across the world sent their observers to Russia.
"Whereas being generally critical of Russia`s current developments, observers hailed the smooth, well organised and transparent performance of the election commissions," said Mr Veshnyakov.
Moreover, Mr Veshnyakov emphasised that votes had been promptly counted up.
Mr Putin, for his part, thanked the staffs of all election commissions for a good job.
"I would like to thank you and all those who worked at the commissions," said the president.
"Parliamentary and presidential elections are always a hard time for election commissions. However, judging by the way the elections proceeded, you and all members of the election commissions, the CEC staff, coped with the job despite the stress of this period and the avalanche of work," said President Putin.
Mr Putin praised the observance of the election law and relative arrangements.
When asked by the president how many people had worked at election commissions, Mr Veshnyakov said there had been a total of about a million staffers in all the election commissions in the presidential vote and in the Duma election.
"This was a whole army of people of different political convictions and opinions," Mr Veshnyakov said, adding that representatives of all political parties had worked in election commissions.
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