MOSCOW, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- The United Russia party is determined to gain a number of seats in the State Duma that would guarantee it a stable majority, party leader Boris Gryzlov told the media on Tuesday.

    United Russia seeks a constitutional majority, Secretary of the United Russia General Council's presidium Vyacheslav Volodin said earlier on Tuesday.

    The United Russia will seek a majority, because in that case it will be able to make laws and adopt important decisions and bear responsibility for them.

    "The more votes we have, the better the results of our work," he was quoted by the Itar-Tass news agency as saying.

    Talking about President Vladimir Putin's consent to join the list of United Russia candidates as number one, Volodin said that on the one hand the party would find it far more easier to campaign for itself, but on the other, it was aware of a far greater degree of responsibility for "not letting down the president."

    Volodin said Putin had been the moral leader and would remain so in the future, because he implemented a national strategy.

    On the possibility over 60 governors might appear on the top of the party's regional lists, Volodin said it would be the most correct move.

    "Elections are a sort of vote of confidence or no confidence in the governors," he said. "A governor that has assumed such a great responsibility is bound to look into detail into what the life of people in the region is like, bound to work better."

    United Russia, the largest parliamentary party in Russia, launched its election campaign on Monday. The election program has been approved and the list of candidates for the December elections in the Fifth State Duma formed at the United Russia congress on Oct. 1 and Oct.2.

    This congress is the eighth since the party's founding in 2001 and the longest in its history. After the delegates have approved the election program and the list of candidates for the State Duma elections, the congress is expected to take a break for more than two months.

    The congress will meet in the same makeup after the parliamentary elections in order to nominate a party's candidate for the presidential elections, which will be held in March 2008.