United Russia party of Vladimir Putin won an absolute majority in the Lower House of Parliament (Duma) with 238 deputies (49.5% of votes) of the total of 450, according to "preliminary distribution of seats" after Sunday's legislative elections , announced yesterday, the Central Election Commission (CEC).

CEC Chairman Vladimir Ciurov, announced that the Communist Party, ranked second with 19.1% of the vote, will have 92 members, compared to 57 as was previously. Russia party right (center left), 13.2% of the vote, will have 64 seats in the Duma, and the Liberal Democratic Party (nationalist) Vladimir Zhirinovsky, 11.7% of the vote, 56 seats. Absolute majority of Duma deputies is 226 out of 450.

Medvedev wants "coalition"

Compared to the 2007 elections, Putin party lost 77 seats and two-thirds majority that allowed amendment of the Constitution. United Russia, which was in the forefront on Dmitry Medvedev, Russia remains the most powerful, but the result is disappointing, less by about 15 percent over previous elections. Turnout rate was 60.2 percent, 3% lower than the 2007 elections.

President Dmitry Medvedev said that his party is willing to form coalition agreements in the State Duma. "United Russia majority still obtained through legitimate means. Yesterday, I informed the leaders of other parties that United Russia is ready to cooperate and form coalitions. Although a majority and does not require any understanding, reaffirm the need to form blocks and coalitions, "said the leader of the Kremlin. RIA Novosti writes that United Russia could make a coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party's Zhirinovsky .
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At St. Petersburg, Russian premier bastion and his entourage, United Russia has won only 34 percent of the vote. In Irkutsk region, where the Lake Baikal and where Putin is increasingly leading to fishing, first communists were ranked by Ziuganov, European enclave of Kaliningrad as in, located between Poland and Lithuania.
Only in Chechnya, led with an iron fist by Kadyrov, Putin's party won 99 percent of the vote. Chairman of the Fund for Effective Policy Gleb Pavlovsk says that "United Russia lost the support of the majority population. And the most dangerous thing is the loss of confidence in the regions. These results reflect, in fact, dissatisfaction with the policy of United Russia. "Meanwhile, the analyst believes the party paying for the mistakes of the Government and the Presidency".

Chairman of the Policy of St. Petersburg, Mikhail Vinogradov, points out that United Russia has lost in Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Toliatti and in several other cities. In his opinion, the main factor that people take away from the ruling was the castle of Putin and Medvedev. In addition, "the region lost power and organizational strength, because the local representative of United Russia no longer have credibility." "Yesterday's result was predictable," says political analyst Dmitry and Oreşkin.

"Since 2009, United Russia has gradually lost support pensioners who are struggling to survive on 200 euros a month. Disillusioned, the tank's traditional voters see Putin as their conditions deteriorate and no longer supports the power lies, "says Oreşkin.

United Russia amounted fraud score

Worrying is that in Russia the Communists, who seemed condemned to the dustbin of history, were voted Sunday, ironically, many students and intellectuals. On this vote "protesting" against Putin, as analysts call it, Ziganov's party won 19 percent of the vote, almost double the 2007 elections.

Communists now embodied in the eyes of voters credible opposition to Putin's party. In Sverdlovsk in the Urals industrial region, home region of former President Boris Yeltsin, fraud was such that the sum of the results obtained by different parties gave 115%, including 40 percent for United Russia. In the Rostov region, the total was 140 percent, of which 59 percent for Putin's party. United Russia's real score if no fraud had occurred would be, according to Eduard Limonov opposition writer, about 30 percent. The mission of observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said in a statement that legislatures elections in Russia were marked by "frequent violations" during the vote count, including "filling ballot boxes."

"The vote was well organized, but the quality has deteriorated considerably during the vote count, characterized by frequent violations of procedure, including serious hints on filling ballot boxes," said OSCE. The media independent Russian NGO Golos, which monitored the elections, many frauds reported during the day Sunday, election day. Russia's Central Electoral Commission indicated that no fraud was not found notable.

Appeals

Russian Communist Party and the Right want to challenge in court the results of legislative elections in several regions, announced yesterday, the Communist leader, Gennady Ziuganov, quoted by RIA Novosti. "We are ready to unite with all who will provide information about fraud to consider them together and get the truth in court," he said.

238 deputies will be in United Russia State Duma (lower house of Russian Parliament).