Word: parliament
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...THAT RUSSIANS will lack for choice when they go to the polls this Sunday to elect a new national parliament. Establishment figures like Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin are running, but so too is Dzhuna Davitashvili, an extrasensory healer formerly employed by aging Politburo members. Both the Communist Party, a remnant of the Soviet monolith, and the Beer Lover's Party have fielded candidates. All together 5,000 candidates are vying for the 450 seats of the State Duma, the lower house of the country's two-tier Federal Assembly. It would be no exaggeration to say Russia is experiencing...
...great shift in the vote to opponents of Kremlin economic policies, such as the communists or the nationalists, could mark the beginning of the end of the reformist cycle that started after Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in 1985. The powers of the parliament have been so watered down in the new constitution that it is virtually impossible for Deputies to remove Yeltsin from office. But a solid Yeltsin opposition with a majority in the new parliament could obstruct government-reform policies. The result would be a return to the debilitating power struggle that triggered Yeltsin's dramatic 1993 showdown...
There is a good chance, however, that such a coalition will not emerge and that the new parliament will prove just as fractious and querulous as the old one. The communists have consistently held the lead in public-opinion polls, but they are still favored by no more than 20% of the voters. If as many as 10 political groups manage to break the 5% barrier to get into parliament, the communists would have to do some major horse trading with projected winners like Women of Russia and the Agrarian Party to create an anti-Yeltsin alliance...
...June 1996, when Russians are scheduled to vote for a new President. On the mend after his second hospital stay for heart troubles in just over three months, Yeltsin has not ruled out a re-election bid, and will say nothing about his plans until after the new parliament is elected. Nevertheless, every Russian knows that the current campaign is a dress rehearsal for next year's vote. At least five candidates from Russia's leading parties are considered strong presidential contenders. Here are the men who, after the ballots are tallied, will probably emerge as key combatants...
...vote in the December 1993 parliamentary elections. Now, after two years of his bad-boy antics, the Russian electorate appears to be growing weary of Zhirinovsky. Although he can count on enough support from his solid following among the lumpen proletariat to remain a disturbing force in the new parliament, he will have to share the protest vote that brought him to power in 1993 with Lebed, former Vice President Alexander Rutskoi and a host of other patriotic-minded candidates who did not--or could not--run in the last elections. GENNADI ZYUGANOV Riding a Wave of Nostalgia...