| MOSCOW (AP) -- The Communist Party and the liberal
Yabloko faction have gathered 103 lawmakers' signatures -- enough
to put a motion of no-confidence in the Cabinet on the parliamentary
agenda, Yabloko deputy head Sergei
Ivanenko said Monday.
Ivanenko said the motion would likely be endorsed Tuesday by
the
agenda-setting Duma Council and put to a vote June 18, when Prime
Minister
Mikhail Kasyanov is to report to lawmakers on the Cabinet's social
policies.
A no-confidence motion needs to get a simple majority of 226
votes in the
450-seat Duma to succeed. That is considered all but impossible
because the
Communists, their allies and Yabloko can gather only about 150
votes.
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