10 regional political parties desire to participate in struggle for deputy mandates. Besides submission to the regional election committee of all 25 single-mandate constituencies has come to the end. Here 181 candidates were peged for, and almost third of them are already registered.

Party list of members of «Edinaya Rossia» is personally headed by governor Konstantin Titov. On single-mandate constituencies regional branch of « Edinaya Rossia » has recommended 24 candidates for elections.. And Samara S.R. who are considered as the main opponents of » Edinaya Rossia » in the region , have recommended only two candidates.

The governor of Samara region has invited the representatives of all competing parties to participation in televised debates. And television and radio broadcasting company «Russia-Samara» which is headed by a member of regional political council « Edinaya Rossia » Firdus Aliev, has already declared, that is ready to give for this purpose a free-of-charge broadcasting time in the evening prime time.

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