| MOSCOW. June 26 (Interfax) - Some 56% of Russians would
vote in parliamentary elections if they were held next Sunday, according
to a poll carried out by the All-Russian Public Opinion Center (VTsIOM).
The poll suggests that 26% will not bother to vote, while 15% are not sure
if they will vote.VTsIOM polled 1,600 Russian citizens at the end of May.
If elections were held next Sunday, the Communist Party and the pro-presidential
Unified Russia would be supported by an approximately equal numbers of
voters, 27% and26%, respectively. This compares to 28% and 23% earlier
in the month.Grigory Yavlinsky's
Yabloko party would come in third with 8% of the vote. Its position has
not deteriorated since the previous poll. It is ahead of Vladimir Zhirinovsky's
Liberal Democratic Party, whose support has dwindled from 10% in the previous
poll to just 6%. No other party would gain the 5% needed to enter the State
Duma. In particular, the Union of Right-Wing Force scan expect just 3%
of the vote, a marked fall from the 5% who said they would vote for the
party in the previous poll.
See also:
State Duma Elections
2003
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Interfax, June 26, 2003
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