Representatives of religious organizations comment on the results of the elections to the State Duma

Immediately after the end of the parliamentary elections on December 2, representatives of various religious organizations hurried to comment on their results - still preliminary.

Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, deputy chairman of the DECR MP, told an Interfax correspondent: "In my personal opinion, it is obvious that the absolute majority of the people support the policy of the current state leadership of Russia. Someone may not like this inside or outside the country, but it is so." "Most people are not set on a conflict with the authorities, not on supporting political radicals and populists, but on the ideal that Russia has always been strong with - the ideal of the unity of power and people," said Archpriest Vsevolod.

Mufti Talgat Tadzhuddin, head of the Central Muslim Spiritual Directorate of Russia , believes that "as a result of these elections, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin really becomes the people's leader of Russia." "Vladimir Putin now has the full moral right to stay for another term, and we hope that he will continue to actively participate in big politics," the mufti said. According to him, the results of the elections show that "the overwhelming majority, more than two-thirds of the country's population, supports the President's course aimed at reviving our Motherland, strengthening peace and stability, and the vast majority of voters voted for the continuation of this course." "Now a public movement has been formed in support of Putin's course . The Public Council of the Central Spiritual Muslim Board also announced its entry into this movement. Time will tell what it will result in, but the main thing is that the president remains in big politics," T. Tadzhuddin added.

Chief Rabbi of Russia (FEOR) Berl Lazar emphasized that "for the first time in the new Russia, xenophobic slogans of any of the parties claiming a seat in the State Duma were practically not used in the election campaign." “The fact that the party that is called the party of power, United Russia, supported by President Putin, is receiving such a clear advantage, according to the latest data, suggests that most Russians have such an approach in the economic, ideological and, in first of all, in the sphere of interethnic relations, it supports and gives carte blanche to the authorities to continue the same policy,” B. Lazar said. “No one hid,” he said, “that the current parliamentary elections are practically a referendum, and this is not only a recognition of the merits of the past, but also a credit of trust for the future, which, precisely because of its large size, poses very large and responsible tasks for the authorities.” ".

The Russian Jewish Congress also noted that during the last elections, the parties "did not use frankly nationalist slogans in their election campaign" and, moreover, "the fight against xenophobia was included in some party programs." The voting results, according to the RJC, "allow us to talk about the continuity of Russia's current political course, which provides favorable conditions for the development of national communities and organizations in our country, including Jewish ones."

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