Alexei Navalny's political party received 3% of the vote in legislative elections.
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The Pete Quiñones ShowOct 1, 2026
None of the sources reports a vote share for any party linked to Navalny in a legislative election, so the 3% figure can't be checked. The only related source, Britannica, says his Progress Party was barred from the November 2016 legislative election, which doesn't address the vague 'legislative elections' the speaker means.
What was said
… And when Navalny went to Yale, uh, to study law, for some reason, that's when he was recruited and then sent back to Russia. I think his party got 3% of the vote, um, but prior to all this, in the legislative elections, and all of a sudden now the U.S. Created this opposition figure through its media that had nothing happened to him, to this day no one would have heard of him. So, um, and not to mention the methods, apparently, that he uses are so crude and stupid. …
The Pete Quiñones Show · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. Britannica reports that Navalny's Progress Party was barred from contesting the November 2016 legislative election after its registration was canceled, so it had no vote share in that election.[3]
Context. Sources on Navalny's 2013 Moscow mayoral run (27% of the vote) and the 2024 presidential election do not report any legislative vote share for his party, so the 3% figure is not addressed.[1][2][4][5][6]
Sources
6 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 4 not rated
- 1Putin foe manages strong showing in Moscow votereuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Putin basks in electoral victory even as Russians quietly protestapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Alexei Navalny | Facts, Biography, Poisoning, Cause of Death ...britannica.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 4Russia of the Future - Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 5Navalny's 27% Is a Win for Entire Nation - The Moscow Timesthemoscowtimes.com · not rated · cited for: context
- 6In Memoriam: Alexei Navalny (1976 - 2024) - Russian Election Monitorrussian-election-monitor.org · not rated · cited for: context
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