Yabloko

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Яблоко
Yabloko
Logo yabloko party.svg
Party leader Nikolai Rybakov
founding 1993
Place of foundation Moscow
Headquarters Moscow
Alignment Left liberalism ,
economic liberalism ,
civil rights
Colours) Green red
Number of members approx. 55,000 (as of 2005)
International connections Liberal International
European party Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE)
Website www.yabloko.ru

Jabloko ( Russian Яблоко ), officially the Russian Democratic Party Yabloko (Russian Российская Демократическая Партия Яблоко / Rossijskaja Demokratitscheskaja Partija Jabloko ), is a left-wing liberal Russian party . From 1993 to 2003 she was also represented in the Russian State Duma.

Yabloko means apple in Russian , so this is often used as a symbol of the party.

Content profile

The party advocates civil rights, the rights of women, the elderly and minorities. She represents ecological and business-friendly positions. Through its political goals, Yabloko defines itself as a social liberal party:

The opposition to the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin plays a major role in Yabloko's politics .

Results in the elections to the Duma since 1993

year Share of votes Seats Remarks
1993    7.9% 27 first Duma election in post-Soviet Russia
1995    6.9% 45
1999    6.0% 20th
2003    4.3% 4th failed at the five percent hurdle, but four directly elected candidates
2007    1.6% 0 direct election of candidates was abolished in the run-up to the election
2011    3.4% 0
2016    2.0% 0

organization

Decision-making bodies

The highest organ at Yabloko is the party congress , the current board work between the party congresses is carried out by the central council of the party, which is chaired by the party chairman. The Political Committee has been functioning as a further body since 2008. It draws up fundamental positions for the party and can suspend the party leader.

Factions

There have been various factions within the party since 2006:

  • Women's group (gender group)
  • “Green Russia”, ecological faction, emerged from the Union of Greens of Russia , associate member of the European Greens
  • Youth group,
  • Soldier mothers ,
  • Socialist Group
  • Entrepreneurial group
  • "Older generation"
  • LGBT group is being prepared.

At least 300 members are required to form a political group.

Regions

The party is represented by local organizations in around two-thirds of Russia's regions. In the Republic of Karelia there were some members of parliament ( Grigori Jawlinski , Emilia Slabunowa ). Galina Shirschina was the mayor of Petrozavodsk (2013-2015). Good election results were also achieved in Saint Petersburg . Since September 8, 2019, Yabloko has been represented by four MPs in the Moscow City Duma, which is not least due to the support of the prominent opposition politician Alexei Navalny and his campaign "Intelligent Voting", which Yabloko himself denied in part.

History of the party

Yabloko was constituted as an electoral association in 1993 and became a regular party on January 5, 1995. It represents a moderately liberal, partly social liberal program. The name literally means apple (яблоко), but it is derived from the abbreviation of the beginnings of the names of the party founders Grigori Jawlinski , Juri Boldyrew and Vladimir Lukin .

Party leader was Grigori Jawlinski for 15 years . In June 2008 he was replaced by Sergei Mitrochin . Until his arrest in 2003, the party had received financial support from Mikhail Khodorkovsky , among others .

After the 2011 Duma elections , the party announced that Grigori Jawlinski would run for the 2012 presidential election . However, he was refused admission because, according to the Russian election authorities, around 25% of the two million supporters' signatures were forged.

In December 2015, the relatively unknown Emilia Slabunova was elected as the new leader of the party.

Duma elections 2016

In the 2016 Duma elections , Yabloko only received 2% of the vote and won no seats.

The party ran with a federal list and 331 candidates for 64 regional lists.

On the federal list

The well-known director Alexander Sokurow in Saint Petersburg and the human rights activist and later winner of the Alternative Nobel Prize Svetlana Gannushkina in Chechnya were candidates on regional lists .

Failed the party for the elections with other opposition parties such as the Parnas or the Progressive Party of Alexei Navalny to agree on a common electoral alliance.

Prominent members

Web links

Commons : Yabloko  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yabloko was checked by the Federal Registration Service . Press release from June 10, 2006
  2. ↑ russland.RU of June 22, 2008: head of the opposition party Yabloko resigns after 15 years ( Memento of April 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Green Russia ( Memento from October 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) website
  4. ↑ Green Russia europeangreens.eu
  5. ^ Annette Legutke: The organization of the parties in Russia , Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 9783322890436 , page 77
  6. ↑ russland.RU of June 23, 2008: Mitrochin replaces Jawlinski after 15 years as Yabloko boss ( Memento from April 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Moscow accuses Ashton of meddling in the election process in Russia at RIA Novosti on February 2, 2012.
  8. ↑ The Duma elections in 2016 will take place for the first time with a mixed system, in which both the federal list and regional groups are elected according to proportional representation (225 seats) and 225 seats are distributed according to the majority principle in individual constituencies.
  9. ↑ List of the 2016 elections ( Memento from July 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Yabloko (Russian)
  10. ↑ List announced by Yabloko for the 2016 elections (Russian)