Civic Platform (Russia)

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Graschdanskaja platforma
(Гражданская платформа)
Civic Platform
Гражданская платформа.png
founding 2012
Place of foundation Moscow
Headquarters Moscow
Alignment Liberalism , anti-communism
Parliament seats
1/450
Number of members approx. 500
(as of June 4, 2012)
International connections no
European party no
Website ppgprf.ru

The Civic Platform is a liberal party in Russia , founded in 2012 under the leadership of Mikhail Prokhorov . It sees itself as a loose association of progressive forces that woo supporters, especially in the metropolises. The head of the political committee is Rifat Shaychutdinov . After its founding, the party agreed to work with all other parties, including the ruling United Russia party .

history

The formation of the party is directly linked to the oligarch Prokhorov, who entered politics in 2011 as one of the richest Russian entrepreneurs. He intended to lead the business-friendly Right Cause party to the Duma in the 2011 parliamentary elections , but gave up because he did not want to support the remote control of the party by the government. But Prokhorov ran in the presidential elections on March 4, 2012 as a liberal opponent and came with 7.98% of the vote in third place behind Vladimir Putin and the communist Gennady Zyuganov . After this defeat, Prokhorov pursued the establishment of his own party, the Graschdanskaja platforma ( Гражданская платформа ), in German civil platform . The party thus bears the same name as the Polish citizens' platform , then headed by Donald Tusk .

The party will initially consist of 500 members and concentrate on the local elections in the autumn, Prokhorov said on June 4, 2012 in Moscow. On July 7, 2012, the party was constituted at a congress in Moscow.

The 11-person federal board elected on October 27, 2012 includes various liberal politicians (including Solomon Ginsburg ), and representatives of civil society (including the singer Alla Pugatschowa and the economist Vladimir Ryschkow ) are on a 17-person support committee .

Some observers suspected that the founding of the party - similar to the Right Cause party initiated in 2011 - was either controlled by the government or that Prokhorov would like to offer the party to the ruling elite in the future. In the 2013 local elections, the candidate Yevgeny Roisman, supported by the Civic Platform, won the mayoral election in Yekaterinburg .

Prokhorov's sister Irina Prokhorova took over the management of the citizens' platform in the spring of 2014 , but only until July 2014, when she could no longer identify with the regional groups that supported the annexation of Crimea. From now on they were simple members, while the party increasingly supported the government's course in foreign policy.

In March 2015 Prokhorov resigned from the Civic Platform because the head of the political committee, Rifat Shaychutdinov, had called for the Civic Platform to participate in the large-scale event "Antimaidan" in Moscow staged by the Kremlin .

In the parliamentary elections in Russia in 2016 , the Civic Platform achieved only 0.22% of the voters with 115,433 votes. However, the former LDPR deputy Rifat Sheikhutdinov won the Neftekamsk constituency in the Republic of Bashkortostan and thus achieved a seat in the State Duma for the party.

For the 2018 presidential election in Russia , the party did not put up a candidate of its own, but decided to support the incumbent Vladimir Putin.

Web links

The Organizing Committee website (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See the article on Forbes.ru dated June 4, 2012 (Russian).
  2. ^ Richard Sakwa : Putin Redux: Power and Contradiction in Contemporary Russia. Routledge, London, New York 2014, p. 99.
  3. ↑ Russian billionaire becomes active: Prokhorov founds party. In: n-tv , June 4, 2012.
  4. ↑ Article ( Memento of the original from February 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on 39.ru of October 27, 2012 (Russian); Prokhorov aims high with his platform party. In: Russia News , October 29, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.39.ru
  5. ^ Civic Platform Creates Federal, Regional Committees. In: ITAR-TASS of October 27, 2012.
  6. ↑ Alexander Bratersky: Prokhorov Trades Business for Politics. In: The Moscow Times , October 28, 2012.
  7. ^ Claudia Crawford, Johann C. Fuhrmann: A bit of opposition: Regional elections in Russia. In: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung , Country Report Russia, September 10, 2013.
  8. ↑ Setback for the Russian opposition  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , RBTH, July 25, 2014@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / de.rbth.com  
  9. ^ André Ballin: Russia's Civic Platform in Uniform. In: Der Standard , October 10, 2014.
  10. ↑ Prokhorov leaves the citizens' platform. In: German-Russian Business News , March 13, 2015.
  11. ↑ "Just Russia" wants to support Putin. Euronews, December 26, 2017, accessed July 17, 2015 .