The three runners-up, the Communist Party, The Liberal Democrats and the Just Russia Party, are all backing Putin.
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The Communist Party will be represented by 42 deputies, while the Liberal Democratic Party, and Fair Russia Party will have 39 and 23 seats, respectively. The statement, however, does bring the Russian Federation narrative back into the headlines, which appears to be a major goal of the party in general.
United Russia – chaired by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev – will have 343 seats in the State Duma, Russia’s 450-seat lower house of parliament. Despite the fact that the developments resulted to democratization and liberalization in the Soviet Union, they had also led to deepening contradictions between the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic and other USSR member states, struggling for independence.
On Sunday night, Putin said that the win showed voters still trusted the leadership despite an economic slowdown made worse by Western sanctions over the Russian annexation of Crimea from Ukraine.
The appointment of Sergei Naryshkin, announced Thursday by the Kremlin, came days after the Kremlin’s power-base party United Russia, won a crushing victory in parliament elections, taking three-quarters of the seats. “We hope all Americans will stand together and reject the Russian effort”, they said. “Nevertheless, we have this result”. About 47.9 percent of some 110 million Russians participated in the election. “I don’t know anything about it, and on a state level Russian Federation has never done this”, the outlet reported Putin saying.
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The election of the 7th State Duma was held on September 18.
