According to opponents of United Russia, the yesterday’s televised question-and-answer session of the nation with President Vladimir Putin, who tops the United Russia’s election list, was the clear breach of the country’s laws.
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Opposition Blamed Illegal Campaigning on Putin
According to opponents of United Russia, the yesterday’s televised question-and-answer session of the nation with President Vladimir Putin, who tops the United Russia’s election list, was the clear vilation of the country’s laws. Putin, however, is sure that he hasn’t breached the legislation, and Central Election Commission Chief Vladimir Churov has spotted nothing criminal in the hot line.
Predictably, Vladimir Putin wasn’t able to skip the election topics yesterday. First, he explained in detail what the Putin Plan actually was (which is the election program of United Russia) and referred to it as “called for by the country.” At the same time, Putin said that United Russia’s idea to personalize the plan and bind it to the name of the current president was “political technology.”
Besides, Putin was very specific when explaining the decision to head United Russia’s list to the State Duma and singled out United Russia as “the key element of parliament’s active capacity in the previous years.”
As a result, the opposition found quite a number of flaws in the president’s talk with the nation. Leaders of SPS - Nikita Belykh, Boris Nemtsov and Marietta Chudakova - declared that the president “defiantly breached” the requirements of laws in part of granting equal rights to all election participants. According to them, the statements of Putin, who explicitly tied the country’s future to United Russia and the promise of United Russia's leader Boris Gryzlov that his party will “ensure that Putin remains in power irrespective of taken office” could be viewed as urging “to replace state institutions by a single party and an individual” and “to change foundation of the constitutional order.”
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All the Article in Russian as of Oct. 19, 2007
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