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Parliamentary Ruling Not for the Russians despite Putin in Power
Vladimir Putin is still very popular with the better part of the Russians; the nation is apparently quite pleased that he will remain in power as a prime minister. At the same time, the majority has no intention to change the presidential ruling for the parliamentary one, signaled the recent poll of Levada Center.
No more than 10 percent wouldn’t object to transferring the power to prime minister should the office be taken by Vladimir Putin. But 67 percent of the polled Russians “prefer the current system of state ruling with the strong power of president.”
The explanation is simple. Nowadays, the nation directly elects their head, while in time of the parliamentary ruling, the prime minister will be appointed by the party that gets the majority at State Duma elections. But the Russians don’t believe in independency of the party that won the recent parliamentary elections in the country.
For the nation, the United Russia Party “has no legitimacy of its own that would be separate from Vladimir Putin.” It won only because it was backed up by Vladimir Putin, think 66 percent of the Russians interrogated by Levada Center. According to 18 percent of respondents, United Russia prevailed because of the administrative resource, and no more than 10 percent attributed the victory to the election program of the party. But the name of that program was illustrative – “Putin’s Plan Is the Victory of Russia!” So, the nation is evidently skeptical about the winner and the democratic nature of State Duma elections and, therefore, about the parliament as a form of the ruling.
At the same time, President-Elect Dmitry Medvedev doesn’t enjoy the popularity of Putin’s extent. In terms of trust, the March rankings of Putin and Medvedev were 59 percent and 41 percent respectively. The number of Russians “supporting actions of Putin” climbed to 77 percent in March and 81 percent had generally favorable opinion about today’s president. What’s more, the Russians are well aware that Putin may run for presidency at 2012 elections and 55 percent would like him to win the future presidential race.
www.kommersant.com
All the Article in Russian as of Mar. 31, 2008
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