In the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Sarajevo, the polling station was closed, where 112 voters voted yesterday in the elections for the President of Russia, said the adviser at the Embassy of the Russian Federation for scientific, cultural and humanitarian cooperation Yuriy Pichugin.
Picugin stated that a total of 158 people voted in these elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 46 of them early, on March 9 in Banja Luka, and the remaining 112 in Sarajevo today.
He said that the turnout this year is not much different from the turnout in 2018 in the presidential elections when 166 voters voted.
“Today everything took place in a peaceful atmosphere and everything was organized in the best possible way,” said Picugin and added that the polling station in Sarajevo was closed tonight at 8:00 p.m.
He thanked the security structures that took care that the elections took place without incidents.
Pichugin stated that by 18:00 the turnout in Russia was higher than 74 percent.
“Complete data in the Russian Federation will be published tomorrow, and we will publish the results in real time,” Pichugin said.
According to preliminary data from the Russian Central Election Commission, the current President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, won again.
After the polls closed, the Russian Central Election Commission announced the first preliminary results, according to which Putin has a convincing majority among the four candidates.
Nikolay Kharitonov, chairman of the Lower House committee for the development of the Far East and the Arctic, received 4.6 percent of the vote.
The deputy speaker of the lower house Vladislav Davankov got 4.2 percent, and Leonid Slutsky, the chairman of the committee for international affairs of the lower house – 3 percent, according to an exit poll conducted by the Russian Center for Public Opinion Research.
More than 74 percent of the 112.3 million voters in Russia, who have the right to vote, went to the polls. Voting lasted for three days.