Russia poll predicts big win for pro-Kremlin party

Mon Nov 26, 2007 2:57pm EST
 
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian pollster FOM predicted on Monday that the pro-Kremlin United Russia party will win 60.1 percent support in a December 2 parliamentary election.

The poll shows a slight drop, down 2 percent, for United Russia on its previous poll released last week.

Only two other parties, the Communist Party and the nationalist LDPR, will scrape over the 7 percent threshold to qualify for seats, according to the FOM poll carried out on November 24-25.

(Reporting by Conor Sweeney)

 

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