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Pro-Kremlin candidates suffered major losses in a Moscow city election, results showed Monday, following a police crackdown on a wave of anti-government protests over the summer. But President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov played down the losses, pointing to other local and regional elections across Russia on Sunday in which the ruling party was "very successful".
Demonstrations broke out in the capital after top opposition figures were barred from standing in the city vote. The protests widened in scope after a harsh response from authorities. Kremlin-backed candidates previously held 38 of the Moscow assembly's 45 seats, but after voting that figure is down to 25. Opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who called the first summer protests after his allies were kept off the ballot paper, put the pro-Kremlin losses down to his "Smart Voting" plan. The campaign called on Muscovites to back the politician most likely to beat a pro-Kremlin candidate, whatever their affiliation.
The beneficiaries were the Communist Party - which took 13 seats, up from five - as well as the liberal Yabloko party and the left-leaning Just Russia, which each won three. The shake-up in the city parliament comes amid a stagnating economy, declining living standards and a fall in President Putin's approval ratings.
"We fought for this together. Thanks to everyone for their contribution," Navalny said on Twitter following the Moscow results. Lyubov Sobol, who emerged as a protest leader after she was blocked from running in the election, said the vote would go "down in history thanks to the courage and perseverance of Muscovites, and the cowardice and meanness" of the city administration. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, a close ally of Putin, said the polls were "emotional and genuinely competitive", adding that greater diversity would be "useful" for the city's parliament.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2019

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