The new-look State Duma that emerged after the weekend’s parliamentary polls will be more conducive to energetic debate, President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday, according to RIA Novosti.
“I am pleased that we will have a livelier parliament,” Medvedev said. “We all realize that the truth is only born out of debate, and that no one has a monopoly over the truth,” he said.
The ruling United Russia party retained a majority in Sunday’s elections, winning 238 of 450 seats, a significant decline from the 315 seats it claimed four years ago.
The second-placed Communist Party won 92 seats, a 30% increase from 2007. The nationalistic Liberal Democratic Party (LDPR) and the A Just Russia party also saw their share of the vote increase.
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