Putin is National hero as his party united Russia wins

by Nksagar | December 3, 2007 at 04:55 am

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Landslide win for Putin's party in Russian elections Putin is National hero as his party united Russia wins

03.12.2007 14:02:02 President
Vladimir Putin's party United Russia's wins national elections,the
Liberal Democratic Party of Russia and A Fair Russia, which are allied
to United Russia - are on track to clear the 7% of minimum votes to get
their candidates get to DUMA.

(live-PR.com) - Landslide win for Putin in Russian
elections.Putin gets charge as his term expires on March 2008 as
National Leader as landslide victory for President Vladimir Putin's
party in Russia's national elections. With cent percent of the ballots
counted, United Russia has almost 64 per cent of the vote, trailed by
the Communists with 11.5 per cent.

The Communists say they will mount a legal challenge to the result, citing alleged voting irregularities.

Central Election Commission announced on Monday morning that United
Russia was leading with 64.1%, while the opposition Communists trailed
with 11.6%.

Two other parties - the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia and A Fair
Russia, which are allied to United Russia - are on track to clear the
7% threshold required to qualify for seats. this means that pro Kremlin
parties will have more than two third majority at their stake.

CEC said that 109 million voters registered ,the turn out was sixty
three percent which is fifty five percent more than previous Duma polls
held in 2003.

The independent Russian monitoring group Golos reported various
violations it said amounted to "an organised campaign", including:

Entering those voting for United Russia into a prize lottery, reported
in St Petersburg. Transporting voters by bus between polling stations,
to vote multiple times, in Moscow and St Petersburg.

Opposition party observers being detained for "looking suspicious", in Samara

Voters being given ballots already filled out for United Russia, in Pestovo

However, the chairman of the Central Election Commission, Vladimir
Churov, told Russian television he knew of "no serious violations in
the course of polling day".

Eleven parties were competing for places in the lower house, the Duma.