In voting on amendments to the Constitution was attended by 10 million people

June 25 in the all-Russian vote on the amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation across the country participated slightly more than 10 million people (including remote e-voting). The turnout was 9.2% of the number registered in Russia of voters, according to the Central election Commission.

According to the decree of President Vladimir Putin, the main voting day is July 1, however, the Russians can vote in the period from 25 to 30 June. This decision was taken in order to prevent the spread of a new type of coronavirus.

in addition, there will also be voting on the local area (in coordination), non-home voting, remote electronic voting in Moscow and Nizhny Novgorod region.

Earlier, the Deputy Chairman of the Public chamber of Moscow Alexei Venediktov said that remote electronic voting for amendments to the Constitution, the turnout was already 50,94%. There was a total of about one million applications from Muscovites and almost 140 thousand from Nizhny Novgorod.

the Voting will last till 20:00 on July 1 (local time in all regions). This will start the counting of votes for all seven days of the vote.

the Head of Rospotrebnadzor Anna Popova in an interview with TV channel “Russia 24” said that all polling stations are met rigid sanitary requirements to prevent the spread of coronavirus.