Participation until this Saturday in the Russian presidential elections reaches 38.5 percent

MADRID, 16 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Central Electoral Commission of Russia has reported that participation in the country's presidential elections has so far reached 38.5 percent with two days of voting remaining, today and tomorrow, Sunday.

The vice president of the commission, Nikolai Bulaev, has especially highlighted the participation in remote electronic voting, which has reached 82 percent of voters registered on the DEG platform.

The published data includes until 08:00 this Saturday, March 16, a day that the Russian Prime Minister, Mijail Mishustin, or the well-known spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zajarova, have taken the opportunity to cast their ballot.

The country's president and absolute favorite for re-election, Vladimir Putin, yesterday exercised his right to vote electronically.

In the incidents section of the last few hours, the United Russia party, the dominant party in the country's politics, has reported a "large-scale computer attack on all its electronic services," according to the group's Telegram channel.

United Russia has explained that, to ensure the functioning of the critical infrastructure of its digital services, it has had to suspend a series of "secondary resources."

The party, however, assures that most of these attacks have been repelled with the intervention of the Federal Telecommunications Supervision Agency, Roskomnadzor.