Subject: [Homestead] New Russian three-party election system
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:44:06 -0800
The U.S. winner-takes-all is subject to gridlock (probably a good thing)
where House and/or Sanate is almost evenly divided. The new Russian
election system could introduce what that idiot Nader refused to
do---some horse-trading of votes for incremental change in laws from
whichever larger political party the swing-vote affiliates with.
Drastic change in laws without such horese-trading, occurs only during
and in the close aftermath of great national catastrophe's such as the
1929 Great Depression, or under the leadership of someone like the
charismatic Teddy Roosevelt who created the National Park system and an
environmental protection constituency.
Russian administration to set up three-party political system
11/10/2004 13:07
*The two-party system, the US model, is considered the best and most
efficient political structure of the society*
It has recently transpired that the Russian administration is currently
working on the establishment of a new liberal party. The project is said
to complete the formation of the three-party system, which also includes
United Russia and Fatherland parties.
Regional divisions of the new political association have been reportedly
established in 57 Russian regions. The key figures of the new liberal
party have been exposed too: the Minister for Economic Development and
Trade, German Gref, the Finance Minister, Aleksey Kudrin and the
chairman of the Russian Audit Chamber, Sergey Stepashin. The Fatherland
party will take up the role of the leftist group, the new liberal party
will be the rightist faction and the United Russia party will be in the
center. United Russia members will have very good opportunities for
political maneuvers, cooperating either with the Fatherland or with
liberals, according to necessities.
Russian analysts believe that the new plan of the Kremlin administration
is not bad at all. It perfectly fits the statement released by the
Russian president on 13 September 2004 at the session of the Cabinet of
Ministers. Vladimir Putin said at the meeting with the ministers that
national parties would be a part of the anti-terrorist struggle. In
addition to it, the two-party system, the American model, is considered
the best and most efficient political structure of the society.
Another message from Russian media outlets also proved the fact of
complicated procedures underway in the Russian political life. Eight
Russian political associations have reportedly announced their intention
to set up the Coordinating board and establish a joint party. The
information about that was released from vice speaker Sergey Baburin,
the Fatherland faction. State Duma deputy Viktor Cherepkov believes that
the party would be formed to create the "open and constructive
opposition." It is noteworthy that the chairman of the Duma faction
Fatherland, Dmitry Rogozin, did not take part in the work of the session.
The situation is becoming quite ambiguous: Sergey Baburin obviously
tries to win the support of his partner in the bloc, to be on equal
terms with Dmitry Rogozin. In the event Rogozin's party declines such
cooperation, Sergey Baburin and his association People's Will will have
to move on alone, which will inevitably weaken and split the country's
patriotic coalition.
If the Fatherland party fits the scenario of Russia's new political
picture, it brings up the idea that Sergey Baburin does not act
incidentally. His actions are aimed at restraining Dmitry Rogozin's
ambition. Furthermore, it seems that the so-called "manual
administration" in the field of the party construction is gathering
pace. However, the immature state of the Russian democracy, the absence
of political parties' links with public associations makes such policy
extremely minor in the scale of such a huge country as Russi
[Homestead] New Russian three-party election system,
Tvoivozhd, 11/11/2004