Putin: Elections are disgusting

Vladimir Putin never wanted to take part in the elections because it is disgusting. As Interfax reports, the Prime Minister said at a meeting with future election observers. “I never wanted to take part in the elections. Because it seemed to me that this procedure is not only difficult, it is so nasty,” Putin said. He completed the meeting, admitting them to the famous Roman saying: "Greetings you, Caesar, the emperor, who are going to death welcome you." “This is the slogan of the fighters in the arena when they went out as gladiators, the slogan of gladiators. The mission that you have ashamed voluntarily, it is not easy, difficult, but very honorable,” Putin explained.

At a meeting with observers, Putin said that he was ready to take the opposition representatives to his team. “I have already said that I invited ideological people from parties who are considered opposition, from the“ right -handed ”, from“ Yabloko ”to work. They worked, work and continue to work effectively, so I don’t see anything impossible here. Moreover, I think that I have the right to talk about it here, we discussed some colleagues, some want them to delegate their representatives to the executive power. - said Putin.

Putin also did not exclude what would be taken to his team of the founder of Yabloko Grigory Yavlinsky. "Grigory Alekseevich has a good team. There are many good professionals," Putin said. He also invited observers from Yabloko to work with his observers. "I do not know about the observers, but I think that they also took a selection, therefore, in this part, I gratefully took your initiative, please attract. I will be happy to convey the necessary number of mandates if they want to do this work," said Putin.

He also stated that the “right business” was created with his support. “Moreover, the matter is not only in the“ Apple ”. At one time, I helped create a“ right -handed thing ”, with my support a“ right -hand business ”was created,” Putin said.

Putin also stated that the second round of the presidential election will lead to destabilization. “I understand that a second round is possible in accordance with applicable law, this will depend on the will of citizens,” Putin said, expressing confidence in victory in the first round. “Of course, I would not put my candidacy if I had not counted on victory. I also understand, and I think you understand that the second round will be inevitably connected with the continuation of a certain struggle and a well -known destabilization of the political situation. But there is nothing terrible here. I am ready, if necessary, to work in the second round,” Putin said.

“I don’t want to work, and I won’t work, if there is no support, it makes no sense, then, then, other people should try to do better, because the citizens of our country present the fate of Russia in other hands, and it will only be necessary to help these people solve the tasks that the country is facing. I will also intend to, if this happens, I will not proceed with bile about this will,” added the premiere.

On January 27, Vladimir Putin said that he was not disturbed by mass protests that swept through Russia after parliamentary elections. He said this to reporters of the Sky News television channel. "Protests? What Protests?" - Putin answered the question of the question whether the protests will affect his result in the presidential election. The journalist Sky News asked Putin in the corridor of Tomsk University during Putin's meeting with students.

“I am not concerned about protesting. I think about people, about ordinary Russian people. Of course, I see these protest groups and I think about what I can do with all our citizens,” Putin said in English.

On January 20, Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the prime minister was not planned to meet with representatives of the opposition. "So far, there are no such meetings in the schedule. You see how intense. But Putin never rejected the possibility of communicating with representatives of any groups except those that are outside the law. And he confirmed this yesterday," Peskov said. He added that no appeals to Putin with a request for such meetings from representatives of the opposition were not received.

At a meeting with the editor -in -chief of the Russian media, Vladimir Putin expressed his readiness to meet with public figures participating in the voters League, however, according to him, "an invitation to dialogue remains unanswered." The editor -in -chief of the Echo of Moscow radio station Alexei Venediktov asked Putin why he would not meet with the Voter League members. "I do not exclude. We are ready, and I am personally ready, and my colleagues are ready to meet and talk with them. Moreover, they invited, by the way, some of those colleagues that you called now Popamilny. More than once, they have never come," Putin said.

The prime minister recalled that many cultural figures holding opposition views rejected the invitation to the recent ceremony of presenting government awards, where they "had the opportunity to talk with him." “We recently awarded government awards in the field of journalism. As far as I know, we were invited by all the above colleagues. They did not come. They say:“ We want discussions, the authorities do not hear us. ”We invited them, but they don’t come. I have a question: they want what? They want to say that there is no discussion, or they don’t want to discuss,” Putin said.

On January 24, Putin took part in the rally of the All -Russian Popular Front, which was held in Kemerovo at the enterprise of the company "SDSMASH". According to the organizers of the rally, more than six thousand people participated in the action. “People live here who can say anything right and anyone. But it is precisely on such people that you can really rely on. Our country always, especially in difficult times, relied on a strong shoulder of the miner and metallurgist,” Putin said, speaking at the rally.

"I regularly go to the mining regions - on holidays, and on the days of tragedies, and just on working occasions. I know that very serious people live here who know life from the inside, and not just its glossy side," the head of government said. The rally participants adopted the resolution "in support of the course of the Russian government."