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Medvedev urges United Russia to ensure Putin wins
Sunday December 18, 2011 08:43:52 AM,
RIA Novosti
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Moscow: Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said that the United Russia
party's main task is to make Vladimir Putin a "worthy" winner of
the 2012 presidential polls.
He was speaking at a meeting with the members of the ruling United
Russia party Saturday.
"Our task is to do our best to make Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
win the elections worthy so that he can confirm the credibility
that he has had for a long time," Medvedev told the party's
members without elaborating what exactly must be done to make
Putin the winner of the presidential race.
The president said he was sure that "it will be this way".
On Thursday, during his annual Q&A televised session, Putin, who
heads the United Russia party without being its member, said that
he considered himself the main contender in the presidential
elections.
Answering a journalist's question about who the main candidate for
the presidential elections was, Putin said: "I think I am," adding
that he "should be clear and understandable for people and avoid
mistakes".
Among other candidates who will challenge Putin in the polls are
the leader of A Just Russia party, Sergei Mironov, the head of the
nationalist LDPR party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Communist party
leader Gennady Zyuganov, a liberal Yabloko party's head, Grigory
Yavlinsky and two independent candidates, including old-time
Putin's ally, Irkutsk governor Dmitry Mezentsev and a billionaire
Mikhail Prokhorov.
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