About fifty people participated in the voting.
LONDON,
March 11. /TASS/. Northern Ireland saw early voting at the Russian presidential
election for the first time on Saturday, chairman of the district election
commission Ivan Volodin told TASS.
"About
fifty people participated in the voting. Many married couples with children
were among those coming to exercise their voting right. Many people extended
appreciation to the embassy for the opportunity to vote in Belfast, which was
opened for them for the first time," Volodin said.
"Neither
elections of the Russian President nor parliamentary elections have been ever
held before in this region of the United Kingdom," commission member
Konstantin Shlykov told TASS.
Voting
stations will be opened on the presidential election day in the Russian embassy
in London and in the consulate-general in Edinburgh.
Source: ITAR-TASS 11-03-2018
