LDPR

ЛДПР LDPR
Party leader	Vladimir Wolfowitsch Zhirinovsky
founding	1991
Headquarters	Moscow
Alignment	Statism National conservatism Social conservatism Anti-communism Pan - Slavism Neo-imperialism Right - wing extremism Right - wing populism Ultra-nationalism
Colours)	Blue, gold
State Duma	40/450
Governors	3/85
Area dumen	308/3994
Number of members	approx. 600,000 (party information) approx. 185,000 (Ministry of Justice)
Website	www.ldpr.ru

The LDPR ( Russian ЛДПР ), originally Liberal Democratic Party of Russia ( Либерально-демократическая партия России Liberalno-demokratischeskaja partija Rossii ), is an ultra-nationalist , right-wing to right-wing party in Russia .

Despite its name, the party is considered "neither liberal nor democratic ". Nevertheless, despite their radical positions (support for “Russian imperialism ”), many LDPR MPs usually vote for government proposals, which has led political observers to speculate that the LDPR is a Kremlin- funded party.

Content profile

The LDPR calls itself liberal-democratic and even describes itself as the “ party of the center” , but is assessed by almost all observers of Russian politics as nationalist, right-wing populist and right-wing radical. In practical politics, the party appears predominantly with extremist slogans and demands and hardly with liberal ideas. According to foreign observers, the LDPR hides its right-wing extremism behind “ patriotic ” positions. The officially propagated basic idea of equal opportunities also contradicts numerous demands of the party for a deliberate preference for Russians over national minorities in the Russian Federation. Also, anti-Semitic traits identified in the party line. The party advocates the death penalty for criminals. During the 2014 Crimean crisis , the party proposed the partition of Ukraine . Furthermore, pan-Slavist , neo-imperialist , anti-communist and statist aspirations are sometimes ascribed to the party.

Inner structure

The highest organ of the party is the party congress, which is convened once every four years. Between the party congresses, the top body is the so-called “Supreme Council”, which is elected by the party congress.

History of the party

The LDPR was founded in 1991 by Communists under the direction of the KGB as the LDPSU and renamed the LDPR in 1992. The founder and chairman of the party is Vladimir Zhirinovsky. His leadership style is considered extremely populist, his political slogans can easily change from extreme right to extreme left content. Thanks to his provocative attitude and statements, he enjoys little but constant popularity.

In the parliamentary elections in Russia in 1993 , the LDPR were the strongest force with 22.92 percent. In the 2003 parliamentary elections , the party received 11.6 percent of the vote and was the third-largest group with 36 out of 450 seats. In the 2004 presidential election , the party nominated Shirinovsky's former bodyguard, Oleg Malyshkin , as a candidate. In the 2007 parliamentary elections , it maintained its position as the third largest group, even if it lost votes.

choice	Result
Presidential election June 12, 1991	7.81%
General election December 12, 1993	22.92%
General election 17th December 1995	11.18%
Presidential election June 16, 1996	5.70%
General election December 19, 1999	6.0%
Presidential election March 26, 2000	2.70%
General election December 7, 2003	11.7%
Presidential election March 14, 2004	2.0%
General election December 2, 2007	8.14%
Presidential election March 2, 2008	9.34%
General election December 4th 2011	11.7%
Presidential election March 4, 2012	6.22%
General election September 18, 2016	13.1%
Presidential election March 18, 2018	5.65%

Prominent members

• Vladimir Zhirinovsky (leading figure, former presidential candidate, deputy chairman of the Duma)
• Oleg Malyshkin (former presidential candidate)
• Igor Lebedew (leader of the LDPR parliamentary group in the Duma)
• Alexei Ostrowski (closest adviser to Zhirinovsky, governor of the Smolensk administrative district)
• Dima Bilan (pop singer)
• Andrei Lugovoi , best known for the affair surrounding the murder of Alexander Litvinenko
• Sergei Ivanovich Furgal , who arrested the former governor of Khabarovsk Krai in the Far East of the Russian Federation in July 2020 on allegations that he was involved in two murders about 15 years ago .

See also

• Liberal Democratic Party (Belarus)

Web links

• Official website of the LDPR

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sputnik: Ultranationalists Move to Slap Fines on Use of Foreign Words. In: sputniknews.com. December 31, 2016, accessed December 31, 2016 . 
2. ^ Wolfram Nordsieck: Parties and Elections in Europe. In: parties-and-elections.eu. Accessed December 31, 2016 . 
3. ^ Henry E. Hale: Developments in Russian Politics 7 . Ed .: Stephen White. Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2010, ISBN 978-0-230-22449-0 , Russia's political parties and their substitutes.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Diana Laarz: The opposition in Russia. In: bpb.de. August 8, 2012, accessed December 31, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Sebastian Smith: Allah's Mountains. Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2006, ISBN 978-1-85043-979-0 , p. 114 ( limited preview in Google book search).
6. ↑ http://www.forschungsstelle.uni-bremen.de/UserFiles/file/06-Publikationen/Arbeitspapiere/fsoAP52.pdf. (PDF) Research Center for Eastern Europe Bremen, December 2003, accessed on August 7, 2015 . 
7. ^ LDPR proposes Poland, Romania and Hungary to partition western Ukraine. (No longer available online.) In: de.sputniknews.com. March 24, 2014, archived from the original on September 23, 2016 ; accessed on December 31, 2016 . 
8. ↑ Либерал-демократический национализм. In: vz.ru. September 9, 2011, accessed December 31, 2016 (Russian).