Trump's victory stems from voters' indignation over 'dirty' election campaign in U.S. - Volodin
MOSCOW. Nov 13 (Interfax) - Vyacheslav Volodin, the speaker of the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, recalled the 'backstairs methods' of the mid-1990s in Russia in connection with the presidential race in the United States, suggesting that such methods angered the Americans who voted for Republican Party candidate Donald Trump.
"The fact is that all of the methods were used there and different statements were made, and these methods themselves were 'backstairs methods'. Supposedly, we have already become estranged from them [these methods] because they were used from around the mid-1990s. As you know, it does not adorn any election system," Volodin said in an interview with the NTV television station. The text of the interview was published on the TV channel's website on Sunday.
"It was such an unprecedentedly 'dirty' campaign with regard to Trump and such pressure that ensured his victory because people simply grew indignant and supported his candidacy," he said.
"It is necessary to speak about political culture, but it is this culture that was absent in this case," he said.