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Regional elections and political parties
Cameron Ross
to the regions (for a discussion of legislative–executive relations see chapter 7). By May 1994 assembly elections had been successfully carried out in seventy regions of the Federation. But, as the terms of these first regional assemblies neared completion in 1995 and 1996, Yeltsin, fearing that the communist opposition would sweep the board, called for the elections to be postponed. Thus, in Presidential edicts of 17 September 1995 and 2 March 19967 he cynically prolonged the sessions of forty-two assemblies. FAD6 10/17/2002 94 5:45 PM Page 94 Federalism