The center's general director Valery Fyodorov told reporters Monday that the question "Who would you vote for today?" harvested the following score of answers: 31% of the respondents for the United Russia party and 7% for each of the Duma-represented Communist, Liberal Democratic and Rodina (Motherland) parties.
Thus four parties with the State Duma status would succeed in retaining their seats and overcoming the 7% barrier to be set at the next parliamentary elections of 2007. Mention should be made that there is a sharp growth in the number of people choosing the point "against all"-16%.
The Center followed intently the rating of Yabloko, SPS and new political formations appearing on the right-wing flank. In the opinion of Valery Fyodorov, this year was to show whether the Right and Liberal forces would be able to have their revenge.
"There wasn't a single month during the past year when at least one of these parties could score more than 3%," reported Mr. Fyodorov. He believes the year 2004 was no success for the Right who failed to prove that their fiasco at the parliamentary elections of December 7, 2003 was a mistake. On the contrary, continued Mr. Fyodorov, "their disappearance from the parliamentary environment and their reduced presence in the information space have given another impetus...for their sliding downwards rather than climbing upwards."
Some 1,592 people took part in the poll conducted on December 11-12 in 100 settlements of Russia's 39 regions.
