Democratic Party of Russia

The Democratic Party of Russia (Russian Демократическая партия России ( ДПР ) / Demokratitscheskaja partija Rossii (DPR) ) was a liberal political party in Russia. It was founded in 1990 and early 2007 counted 82,000 members well. In November 2008 it was resolved to participate in the liberal party Right Cause.

Political orientation

The Democratic Party of Russia was pro-Western, strictly aligned democratic and liberal. In the program of the party in the 2008 elections, a central point was the goal of Russia's rapprochement with the European Union, accession to the Schengen area and an adaptation of the living standards of the European wage levels. The party had especially the middle class as a voter - target group.

History of the Party

The party was founded in May 1990 as one of the opposition parties to the CPSU. In 1991, she supported Boris Yeltsin in the first Russian presidential election, but was in December of the same year in protest against the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the opposition. In the parliamentary elections in Russia in 1993 she was able to record their biggest success to date with 5.52% of the vote. In the follow-up 1995 election attracted two candidates of the DPR in the Duma, including the famous film director Stanislav Govorukhin. By the end of the 90s the party lost so much more important that she was no longer represented in the Duma since the 1999 elections. 2005 failed the former Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov in the election for party chairman. This held the post since the less well-known politician Andrei Bogdanov, a member of the DPR since its establishment in 1990 is.

The party joined the parliamentary election in Russia 2007 again, but missed significantly the Seven percent hurdle. The Chairman Bogdanov subsequently went on 2 March 2008 at the time of election to the President of the Russian Federation. His candidacy was, however, from the outset as hopeless. He reached only a little over one percent of the votes cast.

Strategically placed the party in the last years of its existence to a collaboration with the other liberal parties, Yabloko and Union of Right Forces. The fragmentation of the liberal camp has been viewed in the past as the main reason for his lack of success at the polls. As a consequence, the DPR operational merger with the Union of Right Forces party and the civil power to the great new liberal party Right Cause in November 2008. 2012 joined the Democratic Party of Russia from the party and became independent.