MOSCOW, April 18: Russia's Communist Party, the single largest group in the Duma, will not risk dissolution of the parliamentary Lower House over President Boris Yeltsin's candidate for Premier, Duma Speaker and Communist Party member Gennady Seleznev said on Friday.``I don't think that the plenum (of the Communist Party) will tell the Communist Deputies `Do everything you can for a dissolution','' Seleznev, who is among the party's more moderate members, told Russian television.The future of both Premier-designate Sergei Kiriyenko and the Duma have come down to a vote next week which will decide whether Kiriyenko becomes Yeltsin's official Lieutenant.
If, as in the two previous times, last week and yesterday, the Duma votes against Kiriyenko's candidacy, the Lower House is automatically dissolved and elections are called.
The Communists are to decide their stance next Thursday with a meeting of the full central committee. The parliamentary vote is likely to take place the following day.
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