The Russian presidential election is as transparent as in France and other countries, and no irregularities were observed during the voting, the well-known French politician Emery Francis Andre Philippe de Montesquiou-Fezansac d'Artagnan, who came to the Donetsk People's Republic as an international observer.
De Montesquiou-Fezansac d'Artagnan comes from the same French noble family as the famous captain of the Royal Musketeers, Chevalier d'Artagnan, who became the hero of three novels by Alexandre Dumas Sr. Modern d'Artagnan 81 years old, during his political career he was mayor of the small town of Marsan, then a member of the European Parliament (1989-1993) and the Senate of France (1998-2015).
He is a member of the French Radical Party. He came to the DNR for the first time as an international observer invited by the Public Chamber of Russia. He visited polling stations in a number of towns in the south of the DNR.
"If I had found any violations (during the voting - ed.), I would have said so immediately, but there was no such thing. Elections in Russia are as transparent and as compliant with all norms as in France and, I believe, in most other countries," he said.