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Putin's party fails to acquire Duma majority: exit polls
Monday December 05, 2011 06:39:38 AM,
IANS
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Moscow: As Russian
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's United Russia party failed Sunday
to win a majority in legislative elections as per exit polls, he
said the vote reflected "the real situation in the country".
Exit polls showed confounding forecasts and confirming waning
popular enthusiasm for the country's dominant political
organisation, RIA Novosti reported.
United Russia won 46 percent of the vote for seats in the new
State Duma, the lower house of parliament, according to the Public
Opinion Foundation (FOM), a Kremlin-favoured polling institution,
according to exit poll results broadcast on the NTV national
television network.
Results from another exit poll conducted by the Russia Public
Opinion Research Centre (VTsIOM), also broadcast on Rossiya-24
just after 9.00 p.m. when the last polls closed in the westernmost
Russian exclave of Kaliningrad showed United Russia picked up 48.5
percent of the vote.
Both polls put the Communist party in second place, with FOM
putting their support at 21 percent and VTsIOM placing it at 19.8
percent.
The first official vote-count results were not expected to be
published until later Sunday or early Monday.
But the first indications provided by the exit polls stunned
observers of the vote in which the United Russia party, the
political organization with which Putin has been closely
associated for the past decade, was widely expected to capture a
majority of seats in the new State Duma.
With early election results showing his United Russia party
suffering significant losses at the polls, Prime Minister Vladimir
Putin said the results of the Sunday's vote in Russia's
parliamentary elections were "optimal" and "really reflect the
situation in the country".
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