Moscow: Approval rating of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s fell to its lowest level in more than a decade and support for his ruling party dropped sharply, a month before a parliamentary election, opinion poll results released on Monday indicated.
The Levada Center poll results indicate the United Russia party could fail to maintain its two-thirds majority in the State Duma lower parliament house after a December 4 election.
The election will be followed by a presidential vote in March in which Putin intends to return to the presidency he held from 2000-2008.
With 61 percent of respondents expressing approval for Putin’s actions as prime minister, the October 28-November 1 poll suggests Putin will have little trouble carrying out his plan to return to the Kremlin.
But his approval rating, down from 66 percent in a Levada poll conducted October 21-24, was the lowest since August 2000, when he was dogged by the botched reaction to a naval disaster that killed all 118 crewmen aboard the submarine Kursk.
His party’s support level dropped more drastically, with 51 percent of respondents who plan to vote in the Duma election saying they would vote for United Russia if it were held on the following Sunday — down from 60 percent the previous week.
President Dmitry Medvedev’s approval rating also fell sharply, to 57 percent from 62 percent the previous week.
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