he's coming to get us we can have a look now at what the lib dems are all about. as russians pick for parliament who are the main contenders in the race for duma seats the party's ever present leader. by far russia's most boisterous and controversial bully politician current campaign slogan we are for russians priorities food housing transport and science biggest success here in ne post third in russia's first presidential election critics cry over racist remarks personal violence and populist slogans. for putting them out britain says poison doll xander litvinenko on the party list and ensuring his parliamentary protection. the liberal democratic party of russia election two thousand and eleven r.t. . over out of michigan office he's often been accused of putting polemic before policies and he was speaking to journalists he certainly didn't pull any punches with his comments over these elections he accused fair russia of being the most corrupt party in the country and also suggested that the finger of blame could be pointed at the media saying that united russia

his even still in power i mean you know why isn't this breaking up the coalition between in the lib dems and and and b. how much longer before this really does start to to to shatter british politics. yeah so tom it's interesting i was just over there for a week and i was under the perception which i imagine you are to that the lib dems should be more liberal quote unquote than the tories on economic policy but that's not really the case actually the lib dems under nick clegg seem to be as conservative as the tories or certainly pretty conservative compared to labor and also they're interested in power for power sake they want to be part of the governing coalition so the lib dems aren't having a lot of influence on that government and the conservatives are preaching this myth of expansionary austerity just like the republicans are doing here and they're saying listen if we cut government if we cut spending the economy will grow well in fact that hasn't been the case at all in britain what's happened is they've instituted this massive austerity program and it's been massively can traction

threatening to poison relations with the coalition partners, the lib dems. if the party is over are they heading for a messy breakup. anti europeans hope divorce with lib dems is on the cards. >> a very dysfunctional marriage. what we're seeing is the conservatives advocating one position and the liberal democrats openly criticizing that even though many decisions were made in cabinet collectively. it's open warfare in public. >> i wouldn't always presume that because out on the television screens one party is chanting that the other is in party. >> elder statesmen were lining up to insist relations between conservatives and lib dems aren't broken. >> relations are respectful. government is difficult. >> the coalition isn't going to coupleable? >> no. i think i can guarantee the coalition isn't going to crumble. you get tensions. >> reporter: like every couple, clegg and cameron don't agree on everything. just because they've had a big row doesn't mean this political marriage is over yet. dan rivers, cnn london. >> perhaps just the honeymoon is over. as we n

what we're seeing coming through in the exit poll so far they those exit polls tend to place the lib dems somewhere around the ten to fifteen percent mark depending on which one you're looking at so whether he'll be disappointed come the end of the night we'll just have to wait and see but we can have a look now at what the liberal democrats are all about. as russians pick for parliament who are the main contenders in the race for. the party's ever present love. by far russia's most boisterous and controversial bully politician current campaign slogan we are for russians priorities food housing transport and science biggest success here in northeast post-surgery russia's first presidential election critics cry over racist remarks personal violence populist slogans. for putting them out britain says poisoned dogs under the tree didn't go on the party list and ensuring his parliamentary protection. the liberal democratic party of russia alexion two thousand to eleven party. he went on to talk further about the today's palm entry vote pulling no punches he referred to fair russia as the most

landscape if as best i can figure out the conservatives are sort of like are republicans yes the lib dems are kind of like the clinton version of the democratic party they're kind of in the middle socially. yes fiscally and b. the labor party used to be called the socialist party it would be more like the genesis and bernie sanders party and has become. marginalised as a result of tony blair's association with george bush do you think i mean if europe is there some because their labor party is much further left or not democratic used to be called the socialist yeah exactly and it's only borger so might this be the beginning of the of the renewal the revival of labor and if so is there a leader to bring that back is there a charismatic socialist out there where near around is quite good he's quite charismatic does very well from self in the house of commons particular during prime minister question time really went off to cameron yesterday after that damp squib comment the way he's corrected today of missing when pressed by john that it was a big strike as it makes it that if the lights ar

right now a fair russia having jumped just above the united russia party the liberal democrats the lib dems currently just under twelve percent of the voters what they've got now twelve percent is an increase on two thousand and seven and two thousand and seven they picked up eight percent turning them forty seats in the duma they look set to increase that number of do miss seats but it may be at the expense of being russia's party they appear to be slightly edged out at the moment by a fair russia now the leader of the liberal democrats vladimir zhirinovsky was here just a few hours ago he said he expected the liberal democrats to take between twenty and thirty percent seems a little bit optimistic right now it certainly seems they will take around the ten percent that they usually field in these elections probably picking up a few more percentage points as i said just under twelve percent right now and picking up a few more duma seats as well but they campaigned very strongly on social issues such as alcoholism and drug abuse they also come pain strongly on immigration the liberal democra

completely different right now a fair russia having jumped just above the liberal democrats the lib dems currently just under twelve percent of the vote is what they've got now twelve percent is an increase on two thousand and seven and two thousand and seven they picked up eight percent turning them forty seats in the duma they look set to increase that number of duma seats but it may be at the expense of being russia's party they appear to be slightly edged out at the moment by a fair russia but they campaign very strongly on social issues such as alcoholism and drug abuse they also come pain strongly on immigration the liberal democrats very strongly want to impose limits on immigration into russia this is something that their campaign rhetoric did echo quite strongly now we can hear what the liberal democrats are all about as russians pick for parliament who are the main to turn to in the race for do with seats the party's ever present love them usually ne by far russia's most boisterous and controversial bully politician current campaign slogan we are for russia its priorities food