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Legislative elections will be held in Russia on 18 September 2016, instead of previous proposal, 4 December 2016. At stake are the 450 seats in the State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly of Russia. United Russia is the ruling party after won the 2011 elections with 49.32% of the vote, taking 238 seats (53%) of the Duma seats. ==History== Although the elections are planned for 4 December 2016, deputies have been discussing the question of rescheduling to an earlier date since the spring of 2015, with the second and third Sundays of September or October 2016 being considered possible alternatives. According to many opposition politicians and political scientists and journalists, this initiative is explained by the desire of the government to prevent the victory of uncontrolled-Kremlin opposition forces. On July 1, 2015 the Constitutional Court of Russia admitted the possibility of conducting early elections to the Duma in 2016 under certain conditions. According to the Court, the constitution does not require the election date to be exactly five years after the previous elections, the election date can be shifted if the following conditions are met:〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.ksrf.ru/ru/News/Pages/ViewItem.aspx?ParamId=3242 )〕 *Shifting of the election date does not disrupt reasonable periodicity of elections. *Limiting of the real terms of the Duma deputies is insignificant (less than a few months). *Shifting of the election dates is announced in advance, so to give all the parties enough time to prepare for the elections. On June 19 the State Duma approved a bill by a majority vote in the first reading to bring the election to the State Duma forward from December 4, 2016 to the third Sunday of September 2016. The elections will be held in a single day of voting. The document was developed by the speaker of the Duma, Sergei Naryshkin, and the three leaders of the Duma factions, Vladimir Vasilyev ("United Russia"), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (LDPR), and Sergei Mironov ("A Just Russia"). The Russian government supported the bill. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Russian legislative election, 2016」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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