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Opinion Poll At Moscow Demo Shows Strong Support For Alternative Politicians
Interfax - 12.26.11 - JRL 2011-232

Moscow, 26 December: The overwhelming majority of people who took part in Saturday's (24 December) rally on Prospekt Sakharova (boulevard) in Moscow backed the demand for fresh parliamentary elections and the removal of Central Electoral Commission chairman Vladimir Churov, a poll shows.

Ninety-six per cent supported the call to annul the 4 December parliamentary election and arrange a rerun, the Levada Centre reported to Interfax today. It said it had polled 791 protesters at the request of the organizers.

Ninety-seven per cent of respondents backed the call for Churov to be dismissed and for new electoral commissions to be set up, 95 per cent wanted punishment for everyone involved in falsifying the election returns, 94 per cent wanted new and democratic legislation on political parties and elections and 82 per cent wanted the release of political prisoners including Mikhail Khodorkovskiy and Platon Lebedev.

According to the poll, if all the opposition parties and movements had been able to run in the Duma election Yabloko would have come out on top with 24 per cent of respondents voting for it. Aleksey Navalnyy's new party was second on 19 per cent and the Communists third on 11 per cent. After them come Parnas on 10 per cent and the new party of businessman Mikhail Prokhorov on 8 per cent. A Just Russia and the LDPR would have won 5 per cent each, and One Russia (United Russia) less than 1 per cent.

The Levada Centre's data show that Aleksey Navalnyy is the most popular figure among the protesters, with an approval rating of 36 per cent. The others in the top three are writer Boris Akunin on 35 per cent and Yabloko leader Grigoriy Yavlinskiy on 33 per cent.

Yavlinskiy has the best electoral rating among the respondents at the rally - 29 per cent said they would vote for him in the presidential poll on 4 March 2012, the pollsters reported.

As regards the other presidential candidates, according to Levada, 18 per cent of respondents said they would vote for Mikhail Prokhorov, 11 per cent for Communist leader Gennadiy Zyuganov, 5 per cent each for LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovskiy and A Just Russia leader Sergey Mironov, and less than 1 per cent for Vladimir Putin.

Ten per cent said they turn out on 4 March to spoil their ballot papers, 13 per cent said they would vote but were undecided on whom to vote for, 4 per cent said they would not vote and 4 per cent were undecided on whether they would vote.

Ninety-eight per cent of respondents said that they were willing to turn out for new protest rallies if the presidential election was rigged.

According to the pollsters 79 per cent of respondents were from Moscow, 16 per cent from Moscow Region and 4 per cent from other parts of the country.

(Passage omitted to end: recap on the 24 December rally in Moscow)

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Moscow, 26 December: The overwhelming majority of people who took part in Saturday's (24 December) rally on Prospekt Sakharova (boulevard) in Moscow backed the demand for fresh parliamentary elections and the removal of Central Electoral Commission chairman Vladimir Churov, a poll shows.

Ninety-six per cent supported the call to annul the 4 December parliamentary election and arrange a rerun, the Levada Centre reported to Interfax today. It said it had polled 791 protesters at the request of the organizers.

Ninety-seven per cent of respondents backed the call for Churov to be dismissed and for new electoral commissions to be set up, 95 per cent wanted punishment for everyone involved in falsifying the election returns, 94 per cent wanted new and democratic legislation on political parties and elections and 82 per cent wanted the release of political prisoners including Mikhail Khodorkovskiy and Platon Lebedev.

According to the poll, if all the opposition parties and movements had been able to run in the Duma election Yabloko would have come out on top with 24 per cent of respondents voting for it. Aleksey Navalnyy's new party was second on 19 per cent and the Communists third on 11 per cent. After them come Parnas on 10 per cent and the new party of businessman Mikhail Prokhorov on 8 per cent. A Just Russia and the LDPR would have won 5 per cent each, and One Russia (United Russia) less than 1 per cent.

The Levada Centre's data show that Aleksey Navalnyy is the most popular figure among the protesters, with an approval rating of 36 per cent. The others in the top three are writer Boris Akunin on 35 per cent and Yabloko leader Grigoriy Yavlinskiy on 33 per cent.

Yavlinskiy has the best electoral rating among the respondents at the rally - 29 per cent said they would vote for him in the presidential poll on 4 March 2012, the pollsters reported.

As regards the other presidential candidates, according to Levada, 18 per cent of respondents said they would vote for Mikhail Prokhorov, 11 per cent for Communist leader Gennadiy Zyuganov, 5 per cent each for LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovskiy and A Just Russia leader Sergey Mironov, and less than 1 per cent for Vladimir Putin.

Ten per cent said they turn out on 4 March to spoil their ballot papers, 13 per cent said they would vote but were undecided on whom to vote for, 4 per cent said they would not vote and 4 per cent were undecided on whether they would vote.

Ninety-eight per cent of respondents said that they were willing to turn out for new protest rallies if the presidential election was rigged.

According to the pollsters 79 per cent of respondents were from Moscow, 16 per cent from Moscow Region and 4 per cent from other parts of the country.

(Passage omitted to end: recap on the 24 December rally in Moscow)