Russia's Liberal Democratic Party to hold pre-election Congress

       MOSCOW, September 13 (Itar-Tass) - Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
/LDPR/ led by the notable flamboyant politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky is
due to hold a pre-election congress Tuesday.
    The congress, the twenty-third in the party's history, will be held in
Moscow's downtown Kolonny Hall - a 19t century mansion located next to the
building of the State Duma.
    Spokespeople for the party's governing agencies told Itar-Tass the
Congress will bring together 292 delegates from 83 constituent regions of
Russia.
    Item number one on the agenda is the nomination of candidates for the
December 4 federal parliamentary election.
    The party ticket at the election will be led by Vladimir Zhirinovsky,
the founder of and invariable person number one in what appears to be the
oldest political party in the Russian Federation of today.
    The LDPR, the history of which goes back to 1989, has had a faction in
all convocations of the State Duma since 1993. In the previous election
held in 2007, it secured the support of 8.14% voters, thus winning the
right to occupying 40 seats in the lower house of Russian parliament.
     In addition to this, a total of 169 legislators represent the LDPR in sixty regional legislatures.