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  • Poll: Putin To Win Presidential Race With 63-66% Of Votes

    POLL: PUTIN TO WIN PRESIDENTIAL RACE WITH 63-66% OF VOTES

    PanARMENIAN.Net
    February 24, 2012 - 13:03 AMT

    PanARMENIAN.Net - Russian Prime Minister and presidential candidate
    Vladimir Putin will win the presidential election with 63-66 percent
    of the vote, according to Russia's largest independent pollster Levada
    Center, RIA Novosti reported.

    "Forty-three to forty-six percent of eligible voters are ready to
    vote for Putin. Among those who have decided to come to the polls,
    63-66 percent will vote for Putin," head of Levada Center Lev Gudkov
    said on Friday.

    Russian presidential election is scheduled for next weekend, March 4,
    with five candidates running.

    According to Gudkov, 35 percent of voters are in doubt about
    the honesty of the election and believe that the election will be
    "dirtier," 44 percent of the respondents think that the election will
    be fair.

    He added that 70-71 percent of respondents showed a weak interest in
    the elections.

    Fifteen percent of respondents will vote for Communist party candidate
    Gennady Zyuganov, 8 percent for Liberal Democratic leader Vladimir
    Zhirinovsky, 6 percent for billionaire presidential candidate Mikhail
    Prokhorov and 5 percent will vote for A Just Russia's Sergei Mironov.

    Levada Center predicts that there will not be a second round in the
    presidential elections.

    According to a survey conducted by state-run pollster VTsIOM on
    February 11, Vladimir Putin will win 58.6 percent of the vote,
    Gennady Zyuganov will take second place with 14.8 percent, and
    Vladimir Zhirinovsky will come in third with 9.4 percent. Mikhail
    Prokhorov will get 8.7 percent of the vote and Sergei Mironov will get
    7.7 percent. According to VTsIOM, 67 percent of those surveyed said
    Putin would win after the first round of the presidential election,
    20 percent said he would have to go through a second round.

    According to a survey conducted by the Kremlin-backed pollster Public
    Opinion Foundation (FOM), Putin may get 58.7 percent of votes,
    Zyuganov will follow with 16.2 percent of votes, Zhirinovsky with
    8.8 percent. Prokhorov may gain 8.6 percent and Mironov 6.1 percent.

    Pollsters say 61.8 percent of eligible voters will come to polls.



    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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