Pakina | Rebel at the Monthly Election Studio Vladimir Putin comments on the Duma elections: “Now let’s look at the election result first”

MATTI RÖNKÄ: Welcome, dear spectators, here to the studio to watch the election night! Sami, what do the previews of the Duma elections look like?

SAMI BORG: Yes, these are extremely exciting elections. It is quite impossible to say what will happen.

MATTI RÖNKÄ: Welcome to the studio also Vladimir Putin of the United Russia party!

VLADIMIR PUTIN: Thank you.

MATTI RÖNKÄ: Aleksei Navalnyi, the leader of the opposition!

NAVALNYI: Thank you.

MATTI RÖNKÄ: Vladimir Putin, what do the election settings look like?

PUTIN: Yes, the field senses that the enthusiasm is hard. In St. Petersburg, for example, not only one but three men named Boris Vishnevsky have run as candidates. And many places have been voted at night, even though the constituencies are closed at the time.

MATTI RÖNKÄ: Can you be declared an election winner?

VLADIMIR PUTIN: Now let’s look at the election result first.

MATTI RÖNKÄ: Sami, do we have to tell the numbers?

SAMI BORG: If we look at those current figures now, United Russia is getting 45 percent support.

MATTI RÖNKÄ: Chairman Vladimir Putin, congratulations!

VLADIMIR PUTIN: Thank you! But most of all, we have to thank the voters, many of whom have even voted at several different polling stations.

MATTI RÖNKÄ: What does this election result say?

VLADIMIR PUTIN: Yes, these were elections for change. The people are, once and for all, tired of opposition politics.

MATTI RÖNKÄ: What mistakes has the opposition made during the election period?

VLADIMIR PUTIN: It would seem that the people simply did not accept the tax fraud, embezzlement and activities of extremists they committed.

MATTI RÖNKÄ: Leonid Brezhnev, a veteran politician, is also welcome in the studio. As a party leader, you once won all the elections you held. What do these Duma elections look like to you?

LEONID BREZHNEV: The turnout seems to be well below 99.9%, which is not a good thing for democracy.

MATTI RÖNKÄ: Your time has been described as a time of stagnation. Do these elections mean that it could be achieved again?

LEONID BREZHNEV: Looks good! Yes, this election result will at least give it all the lunch.

MATTI RÖNKÄ: Opposition leader Navalnyi, your party did not receive any votes. What is the reason?

NAVALNYI: Apparently our nomination had failed. After all, we did not have any candidates.

MATTI RÖNKÄ: The doors of the government do not seem to open to you in this election. How about now?

NAVALNYI: I have to taste this election result a bit now, but yes, here is definitely a place to look in the mirror.

MATTI RÖNKÄ: Winner Vladimir Putin, you can form a government again, but how are you going to react to the opposition.

VLADIMIR PUTIN: As good as ever. I am ready at any time to provide the opposition with cups of tea.