Parnas said its exit polling shows it won 6% of vote in Kostroma,surpassing threshold of 5%, but state pollster says it won only 2.6%A Russian opposition party has said it has won enough votes to make it into a regional parliament, and but a state pollster said it had not passed the 5% threshold.[br]The opposition party Parnas said its exit polling on Sunday evening showed that it had won 6% of the vote in the province of Kostroma,enough to give its candidate Ilya Yashin a seat in the regional parliament. Electoral officials previously disqualified the opposition in the two other regions it had wanted to run in, saying they could not verify some of the signatures it had gathered to secure on the poll.
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Source: theguardian.com