{"id":46118,"date":"2026-09-22T11:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=46118"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T09:23:23","slug":"russias-ruling-party-expected-to-retain-power-in-state-duma","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/russias-ruling-party-expected-to-retain-power-in-state-duma\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia\u2019s ruling party expected to retain power in State Duma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Russia&#8217;s ruling party is expected to retain power in the State\u00a0Duma, a result the Kremlin\u00a0says\u00a0indicates the broad support President Vladimir\u00a0Putin\u00a0still enjoys.<\/div>\n<div>\nBut the election has been criticised in the West for the lack of genuine opposition.<br \/>\nDasha\u00a0Chernyshova\u00a0has more from Moscow.<\/div>\n<div>\nRussia&#8217;s ruling United Russia party is set to strengthen its hold on Parliament, with preliminary results showing it is expected to take around 355 of the State\u00a0Duma&#8217;s\u00a0450 seats, giving it a constitutional majority and more seats than in the previous parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Three other parties have cleared the 5% threshold in the party list vote.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\nThe Communist Party has taken around 14% of the votes, It has remained a major force in Russian politics since the collapse of the Soviet Union.<\/div>\n<div>\nThe Liberal Democratic Party is gaining about nine percent, and New People roughly eight percent.<\/p>\n<p>Turnout was close to 60%, the highest for a parliamentary election in Russia since the early\u00a02000s, according to preliminary reporting.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first State\u00a0Duma\u00a0election since Russia launched its full-scale military operation in Ukraine in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Putin had presented the vote as an indication of public support for the country&#8217;s political course.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign was conducted with most openly anti-war candidates excluded from the ballot, while the liberal\u00a0Yabloko\u00a0party was prevented from contesting the party list vote.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14766,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-46118","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Russia's ruling party is expected to retain power in the State\u00a0Duma","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46119,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46118\/revisions\/46119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=46118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}