Re: Communist Party most popular Russian Party

["J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." <rosserjb@xxxxxxx>]

     It's a funny thing about the CPRF.  They have
almost always been leading in the polls.  It is just
somehow whenever there is an election, they
somehow never quite are able to lead then.
Barkley Rosser
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Hanly <khanly@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 12:31 PM
>Subject: [PEN-L:4465] Communist Party most popular Russian Party


>Russia's Communist Party leads in opinion poll
>Interfax
>
>Moscow, 14th November: Russia's Communist Party (CPRF) would win more votes
>than any other group if parliamentary elections were held next Sunday, an
>opinion poll suggests.
>
>The CPRF would receive 37 per cent of the vote, the All-Russia Public
>Opinion
>Research Centre studies group said in a report obtained by Interfax on
>Tuesday [14th November].
>
>The Unity party, led by Sergey Shoygu, would win 21 per cent, the Right
>Forces Union of Boris Nemtsov and Irina Khakamada 11 per cent and Grigoriy
>Yavlinskiy's Yabloko 9 per cent of votes.
>
>Vladimir Zhirinovskiy's Liberal Democratic Party would receive 6 per cent,
>Alevtina Fedulova's Women of Russia 4 per cent, Yuriy Luzhkov's Fatherland
3
>per cent and Gennadiy Seleznev's Russia 2 per cent.
>
>Nikolay Kharitonov's Agrarian Party, Aleksandr Lebed's People's Republican
>Party, Viktor Chernomyrdin's Our Home is Russia and Russian National Unity
>would each muster 1 per cent of the vote.
>
>The other groups would receive a combined total of 1 per cent of votes.
>
>Three per cent of Russians would vote against all the groups.
>
>The research centre questioned 1,600 people, recording the answers of only
>those who said they would definitely go to the polls.
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