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Parliament poll boost for Putin
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RUSSIA’S ruling United Russia party has won a record number of seats in parliamentary polls that could pave the way for President Vladimir Putin to glide to a fourth term in 2018 elections.
With more than 98.3 percent of the ballots counted, United Russia had garnered 54.2 percent of the votes for parties, giving it a constitutional majority in parliament, according to results announced yesterday.
Sunday’s ballot for the 450-seat State Duma was smooth sailing for the authorities, with no sign of the mass protests following the previous vote.
The Kremlin attributed the result to Putin’s popularity. The vote comes as Putin’s ratings remain high at around 80 percent.
Three other parties — which made up the last parliament and all back the Kremlin — were the only ones to clear the 5 percent threshold needed to claim a share of the one-half of seats up for grabs.
The Communists and the ultranationalist Liberal Democratic Party won 13.36 percent and 13.18 percent respectively, while A Just Russia received 6.2 percent.
The other half of the deputies are elected on a constituency basis after a change to the election law.
This gives United Russia a total of more than three-quarters of the vote and at least 343 seats in the 450-member parliament, up from 238 previously, and a record for the party. But it was also the election with the lowest turnout in Russia’s history.
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