Agrarian Party of Russia

The Agrarian Party (Russian Аграрная Партия России ( АПР ), agricultural Well Partija Rossii, АПР, German abbreviation APR) is a left -wing political party in Russia.

Political orientation

The party claims for himself mainly to represent the interests of the rural population of the Russian Federation ( motto of the basic program: " The farmers have their own protector" ). In contrast to rural -minded parties in other countries, the Agrarian Party of the Communist Party of Russia has traditionally ( KPRF ) near.

History of the Party

The party was founded in 1992 and peaked at the Duma elections in 1993 to 7.4% immediately. 1995 her share of the vote fell by half and leveled off since then. In the elections to the Duma in 2003 she missed with the nation's 3.6% share of the vote, the 5 percent threshold for collection in fraction status and reached only three direct mandates.

With the Russian presidential elections in 2004, presidential candidates were granted against the incumbent Putin no chances. The Communist Party nominated the members of the Duma Nikolai Kharitonov of the Agrarian Party, with the aim to unite the Russian rural population and to prevent migration of the voters to the party Rodina. Kharitonov was a 13.74 % of the votes for Putin's successful rival candidates. In the parliamentary elections of 2007, the Agrarian Party also participated, but missed clear the 7- percent threshold for entry into parliament.

On 12 September 2008, the party leadership announced its association with the United Russia party, which was confirmed at the congress of the United Russia on 20 November. The official resolution of the Agrarian Party took place on 21 January 2009, when the association with some Russia was registered by the Ministry of Justice.

2012, the party founded new.