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United Opposition Divided on Candidate [for Russian President]
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| Contributor | Ralphie |
| Last Edited | Ralphie Jun 06, 2007 06:11pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, June 5, 2007 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | With the presidential election less than a year away and two pro-Kremlin candidates’ unofficial campaigns in full swing, the liberal opposition remains as divided as ever over whom to support.
Until recently, key figures in opposition coalition The Other Russia had been floating the idea of holding informal primaries to pick the strongest person to challenge the candidate designated by President Vladimir Putin as his successor.
But this Saturday, supporters of former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov will officially endorse his candidacy — raising the specter that he and other opposition leaders will end up running independently and ruining whatever slim chances the opposition had of winning the March election.
But he isn’t the only opposition hopeful. “Of course I am hoping to win. Otherwise I would not have volunteered,” said Viktor Gerashchenko, the former Central Bank chief and current Yukos chairman.
About 900 delegates from 60 regions are expected to gather at noon Saturday in Moscow’s Kosmos Hotel to nominate Kasyanov on behalf of his political movement, the Russian People’s Democratic Union. Also invited to the conference is a veritable who’s who list of the opposition: former chess champion Garry Kasparov; Eduard Limonov, a founder of the banned National Bolshevik Party; Vladimir Ryzhkov, leader of the Republican Party, which has been ordered disbanded by the Supreme Court; Yabloko leader Grigory Yavlinsky; Union of Right Forces co-founder Boris Nemtsov; and Gerashchenko. |
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