Democratic Party of Russia
| Демократи́ческая па́ртия Росси́и Democratic Party of Russia |
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| Party leader | Andrei Bogdanov |
| founding | 1990 |
| resolution | November 2008 |
| Headquarters | Moscow |
| Alignment | Liberalism , populism |
| Website | democrats.ru |
The Democratic Party of Russia ( Russian Демократи́ческая па́ртия Росси́и (ДПР) / Demokratitscheskaja partija Rossii (DPR) ) was a liberal political party in Russia . It was founded in 1990 and at the beginning of 2007 had a good 82,000 members. In November 2008 it was disbanded to join the liberal Just Cause party .
Political orientation
The Democratic Party of Russia was pro-Western, strictly democratic and liberal. A central point in the party's program for the 2008 elections was the aim of rapprochement between Russia and the European Union , accession to the Schengen area and an adjustment of living standards to European wage levels. The party primarily targeted the middle class as a voter target group.
History of the party
The party was founded in May 1990 as one of the parties opposing the CPSU . In 1991 she supported Boris Yeltsin in the first Russian presidential election , but in December of the same year she went into the opposition in protest against the dissolution of the Soviet Union . In the parliamentary elections in Russia in 1993 , she was able to record her greatest success to date with 5.52% of the vote. In the follow-up election in 1995 , two DPR candidates moved into the Duma , including the well-known film director Stanislaw Goworuchin . By the end of the 1990s, the party had lost such importance that it had not even been represented in the Duma since the 1999 election . In 2005, the former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kassyanov failed in the election as party leader. Since then, this office has been held by the rather little-known politician Andrei Bogdanov , who has been a member of the DPR since it was founded in 1990.
The party ran again in the parliamentary elections in Russia in 2007 , but clearly missed the seven percent threshold. The chairman Bogdanov then stood on March 2, 2008 in the election for President of the Russian Federation . However, his candidacy was considered hopeless from the start. It only achieved a little more than one percent of the votes cast.
Strategically, in the last few years of its existence, the party relied on cooperation with the other liberal parties Yabloko and the Union of Right Forces . The fragmentation of the liberal camp has in the past been seen as the main reason for its unsuccessful election. Consequently, the DPR operational merger with the Union of Right Forces and the Party Civilian Power to the great new liberal party Right Cause in November 2008. 2012 joined the Democratic Party of Russia from the party and has since become independent.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Russia Journal : President of Russia
- ↑ Online newspaper russland.RU: Election in Russia: Dmitri Medvedev leads clearly in polls ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Internet newspaper Russia Current: WZIOM survey: Medvedev President with 73 percent
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Online newspaper russland.RU: Election splinters for the presidential election in Russia ( Memento of the original from December 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ russland.RU of November 17, 2008: New Liberal Party in Russia ( Memento of the original of December 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Official website of the party (Russian)