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On Thursday, October 17, 1996, Russian President Boris Yeltsin has dismissed his security chief, Alexander Lebed. In a television address, Yeltsin said, ``I have told Lebed to learn to work with other state bodies and leaders... he did not learn his lesson.''
The poll by the respected VCIOM research group, published in the liberal Sevodnya newspaper on Oct. 10, showed that 40 percent of the people questioned had named Lebed among the five or six politicians they trusted most. Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov was second with 16 percent, Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin polled 14 percent and liberal leader Grigory Yavlinsky had 12 percent. President Boris Yeltsin, who was re-elected by a big margin on July 3 but is now in a sanatorium awaiting heart surgery, was fifth on 11 percent. Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov was named by 7% of the polled, and Vladimir Zhirinovsky by 5%. The poll of 2,430 people was carried out between September 6 and 29. They were asked: ``Name the five or six politicians in Russia whom you trust most.''
VCIOM conducted a poll (published on October 3, 1996) among 1,600 Russians, in which respondents were to name the most trusted politicians) revealed the following: Lebed was named by 34%, Zyuganov by 15% and Yeltsin by 12%. The three front-runners are followed by Grigory Yavlinsky, Viktor Chernomyrdin and Yuri Luzhkov (9% each), Boris Nemtsov and Aman Tuleyev (6% each), Svyatoslav Fyodorov (5%) and Zhirinovsky (4%). A quarter of respondents (25%) said that they trusted no one and 14% were undecided.
Total electorate - 108.600.730 (1st round - 108.495.023) Took part in the elections (i.e. number of balots received by voters) - 74.815.898 (68.89%) (1st round - 75 744 549 (69.81%)) Took part in the voting (i.e. number of valid and invalid ballots found in ballot-boxes) - 74.706.645 (1st round - 75 587 139) Yeltsin - 40.208.384 (53.82%) / 26 665 495 35.28% Zyuganov - 30.113.306 (40.31%) / 24 211 686 32.03% Against all - 3.604.550 (4.83%) / 1 163 921 1.54% Invalid ballots - 780.405 (1.04%) / 1 072 120 1.42%
The inauguration ceremony took place on August 9, 1996.
The registration process is complete.
Eleven candidates were officially registered by the Central
Electoral Commission (i.e., their names appeared on the
ballots on June 16). The name of Aman Tuleyev
was crossed out because of his withdrawal from the
race, and the ballots cast for him were
considered invalid.
Registration of initiative groups and electoral blocs nominating
presidential candidates ended on March 2, 1996.
Candidates had until 18:00, April 16, 1996,
to submit the registration-related documents
to the Central Electoral Commission, Interfax
reported on January 3. By that time, the commission
announced, nominees would have to submit their tax returns for the two years before the election in addition to a list of
signatures supporting their nomination. Under the law on presidential elections, candidates had to collect at least
1,000,000 signatures, with no more than 70,000 signatures from any one region of the Russian Federation.
None of the candidates captured more than 50% of the vote in the
first round, so there will be a runoff. (At least 50% of the people
registered to vote had to show up in order for the elections to
be valid.) In the runoff, the voters will have to choose between
the two top candidates, and whoever gets more votes than the other
candidate and more votes than the total votes cast against both
candidates, wins. The winner's presidential term will be 4 years.
The candidate nomination process is over. By March 4, 78 candidates were
nominated by initiative groups and electoral blocs. Only 2 of
them were still in the race as of June 17. Click on
the link above to see the list of nominees.
Candidates Registered
Political Orientation Map
Election Trivia
Information on the Top Candidates
Boris
YeltsinGennady
Zyuganov
Out of the Race
Vladimir
BryntsalovViktor
ChernomyrdinSvyatoslav
FedorovMikhail
GorbachevAlexander
Lebed
Martin
ShakkumAman
TuleyevYuri
VlasovGrigory
YavlinskyVladimir
Zhirinovsky
Results of Public Opinion Polls
Candidates Nominated
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