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Arms exporter chief elected to pro-Kremlin party council

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YEKATERINBURG, December 2 (RIA Novosti) - Sergei Chemezov, head of Russia's state-run arms exporter Rosoboronexport, has been elected to the supreme political council of the pro-Kremlin party, United Russia said Saturday.

A party congress, held in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, also elected a number of regional administrators and parliamentary committee chairmen to United Russia's governing body.

Party leader Boris Gryzlov, who is also speaker of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament, said earlier today United Russia is sure to win the upcoming parliamentary election.

"In the interest of Russia's future, a political force that supports and is ready to continue supporting the course of the incumbent Russian president must win the upcoming elections," he said, adding these include federal, regional and local elections.

In a message to the congress, the Russian president said United Russia is the most influential political force in the country.

"During the years that have passed since its creation, the party has accumulated a substantial creative experience," Vladimir Putin said.

Gryzlov said last month United Russia must gain a minimum of 250 seats in the 2007 parliamentary elections.

"We are aiming to secure an overwhelming majority in the parliamentary elections in 2007, and 250 seats are a minimum that United Russia must obtain," he said

Russia's best-represented party, with 2,555 branches across the country and 999,546 members (as of March 6, 2006), United Russia secured a little over 37% of the popular vote in its landslide victory in the 2003 elections to the 450-seat Duma, and then captured all the chairmanships of the house's committees.

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