Sunday, December 4, 2011

Putin's United Russia party suffers exit poll blow

An exit poll for Russia's parliamentary elections indciates a sharp drop in support for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's United Russia party.
The poll for Russian state TV showed 48.5% support for United Russia, down from 64% in 2007.
That would give Mr Putin's party 220 members in the 450-seat lower house of parliament, down from 315.
Russia's only independent monitoring group, Golos, logged 5,300 complaints alleging violations of election laws.

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