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The University Daily Kansan
Tuesday. January 25, 2000
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World
Russian parties boycott
Parliamentary standoff threatens support for Putin
The Associated Press
MOSCOW — A liberal Russian lawmaker warned yesterday that a parliamentary standoff might erode public support for acting President Vladimir Putin by raising new doubts about his commitment to reform.
"Putin enjoys such broad support because people don't know what kind of person he is, and they pin their expectations on him," said Boris Nemtsov, a leading member of the Union of Right Forces faction. "As people get to know Putin, they will become more sober, and it has already happened over the parliamentary crisis."
Nemtsov's party, along with the liberal Yabloko and centrist Fatherland-All Russia factions, has been boycotting parliamentary meetings for a week. The three parties are protesting a deal between the pro-government Unity movement and the Communist Party to elect a Communist lawmaker as speaker and take the vast majority of key committee posts.
Putin tried to play down the dispute in a television interview Sunday. He said he had played no part in the events in parliament.
But Nemtsov questioned Putin's neutrality and warned that the rift could alienate liberal-minded voters.
The Unity party ran for parliament under
anti-Communist slogans," Nemtsov told Echo of Moscow radio, "But on the very first day of the Duma's work, these slogans were forgotten."
He recalled that Putin had called for the Duma to enact reforms.
"I wonder how these bills will pass in the Duma if the Communists, who stand for taking the country back to a planned economy, control all the key committees." Nemtsov said.
the fact that he (Putin) didn't think it necessary to intervene to normalize the situation in parliament causes concern."
Putin, a former KGB spy and Russian security chief, is wisely considered a shoan in the March 26 presidential vote, leading other contenders by a broad margin.
contenders. There are more than a dozen other contenders, including Grigory Yavlinsky, leader of the Yabloko party, and ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky. However, none is believed to have any chance of winning.
State officials warned national television networks yesterday that they could lose their broadcasting licenses if they showed bias in the presidential election campaign.
There are grounds to believe that the current campaign will be cleaner than the parliamentary one, said Alexander Veshnyakov, Central Election Commission chief.
During the parliamentary campaign, state-run networks gave lavish, positive coverage to the pro-government Unity party and smeared the Kremlin's foes.
Sudan's president fires government
The Associated Press
KHARTOUM, Sudan — President Omar el Bashir fired the Cabinet, all state governors and his senior advisers yesterday, state-run Sudan Television reported.
It said a new government would be announced soon. The expected move was another step in el-Bashir's efforts to consolidate his position in a power struggle with the ruling party's hard line ideologue, Hassan Turabi.
El-Bashir had declared a state of emergency and dissolved Parliament on Dec. 12, 1999, leaving Turabi without his job as Parliament speaker. In curbing Turabi, long seen as the power behind the scenes, el-Bashir had accused him of trying to undermine the presidency.
The firing came a day after the governing National Congress Party decided to set up a panel headed by ei-Bashir, giving it the mandate to nominate a new Cabinet.
El-Bashir is now in a position to choose loyalists, further isolating Taulah. a staunch Islamist.
ists, further isolating Turahi, a staunch Islamist. Islamic law was first imposed in this North African country in the early 1980s and was a major factor in the rebellion of the largely Christian and animist south that so far has claimed nearly 2 million lives. Islamic law was suspended when el-Bashir took power in June 1989.
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