'Kadyrov wins Chechen poll landslide'

[Aidoneus]

...and the winner is:--the guy backed by an army that's killed tens of thousands of people, plus his own personal 4,000-strong militia that kills with impunity--Shock! Horror!]

Kadyrov wins Chechen poll landslide
Monday 06 October 2003

Kremlin-backed candidate Akhmad Kadyrov is heading for an emphatic victory in an election that has been widely discredited.

Pro-Russian administrator Kadyrov had secured over 83% of the popular vote with 25% of the ballots counted, the electoral commission announced early on Monday following Sunday's vote.

This makes it "impossible for the other candidates to overtake or even approach" Kadyrov, the commission's chief Abdul-Kerim Arsakhanov was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency.

Kadyrov took an early lead with as much as 80% of the vote in the most populated areas such as Grozny and Gudermes, the region’s second-largest city.

Despite widespread reports of nigh-on empty polling stations, election officials said turnout was over 80%. Kadyrov faced no serious rivals after many other candidates were either disqualified from running or otherwise removed.

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http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/CAA6559A-DDB0-48E8-A33E-7B476EFA6A32.htm

[bemildred]

1. Who are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?

I'll bet this will put an end to the Chechen resistance, too.
:puke:

[Darranar]

2. And Saddam won with 100% of the vote!

Both elections, of course, were completely fair and legitimate...