Republican Party of Labour and Justice
Republican Party of Labour and Justice Республиканская партия труда и справедливости Рэспубліканская партыя працы і справядлівасьці | |
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Abbreviation | RPTS (English) РПТС (Russian) |
Leader | (acting) |
Founders | Ihar Lučanok Ivan Antanovich Vladimir Gostyukhin Jauhien Babosau |
Founded | 26 June 1993 |
Registered | 18 August 1994 |
Headquarters | 23th Building, Victors Avenue, Minsk, Belarus. 220004[1] |
Membership (2013) | 8,000[2] |
Ideology | Socialism Social democracy Democratic socialism Pro-Lukashenko |
Political position | Centre-left[3] to left-wing |
Continental affiliation | Forum of Socialists of the CIS Countries |
Colours | Red, Green (official) Pink (customary) |
Slogan | «Labor and Justice - Enduring Values of Humanity» (Russian: «Труд и справедливость — непреходящие ценности человечества») |
House of Representatives | 6 / 110
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Council of the Republic | 0 / 64
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Local seats | 127 / 18,110
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Website | |
rpts.by | |
The Republican Party of Labour and Justice (RPTS; Russian: Республиканская партия труда и справедливости; РПТС, romanized: Respublikanskaya partiya truda i spravedlivosti; RPTS; Belarusian: Рэспубліканская партыя працы і справядлівасьці; РППС, romanized: Respublikanskaja partyja pracy i spraviadlivaści; RPPS) is a socialist[4] political party in Belarus founded by Ivan Antonovich in 1993.[5] The chairman is . The party is considered to be supportive of the government of president Alexander Lukashenko.[6]
Activities[]
Key objectives of the RPTC include the development of the Union State of Russia and Belarus and the Eurasian Economic Union.
In Minsk, on 21 September 2013, conference of political parties in Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan was held. The event participants signed a memorandum of an alliance. Along with Belarus's Republican Party of Labour and Justice, Russia's A Just Russia, Kazakhstan's "Birlik", and The Socialist Party of Ukraine were included. The RPTC calls for recognition of the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
The party congratulated Nicolas Maduro on his victory in the presidential election in Venezuela.
At the end of 2012, in Vitebsk, it held a charity event for the Republican Party of Labor and Justice, called "Gift of Santa Claus."
Politispolkom, of the Republican Party of Labor and Justice, unanimously declared the results of the referendum on 16 March 2014 in the Crimea legitimate and supported the will of the inhabitants of Sevastopol.[7][8] The party has also called for the president Lukashenko to accept the results of the referendum.[8]
The party was one of the first to strongly condemn the Belavezha Accords.
At the extraordinary XIII Congress of the Republican Party of Labor and Justice, held on December 12, 2020, Vasily Zadnepryany, who had headed the RPTS since 2006, was expelled from its members. Alexander Alexandrovich Stepanov became the acting chairman of the RPTS.[9][10]
Electoral performance[]
At the Belarusian parliamentary election in 1995, the party obtained 1 out of 198 seats. At the legislative election in 2000, it gained 2 out of 110 seats in the House of Representatives.[11] The following elections in 2004 and 2008 were not successful for the party; however, in 2012, it won one seat.
As a result of elections to the local Councils of Deputies of the Republic of Belarus (2014), 36 people were elected. Two members of the party are members of the Minsk City Council of Deputies.
In the 2019 Belarusian parliamentary election, it won a total of 6 seats to Belarus' House of Representatives.
Presidential elections[]
Election | Candidate | First round | Second round | Result | ||
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Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
1994 | Endorsed Alexander Lukashenko | 2,646,140 | 44.82% |
4,241,026 | 80.34% |
Elected |
2001 | Endorsed Alexander Lukashenko | 4,666,680 | 75.65% |
Elected | ||
2006 | Endorsed Alexander Lukashenko | 5,501,249 | 82.97% |
Elected | ||
2010 | Endorsed Alexander Lukashenko | 5,130,557 | 79.65% |
Elected | ||
2015 | Endorsed Alexander Lukashenko | 5,102,478 | 83.47% |
Elected | ||
2020 | Endorsed Alexander Lukashenko | 4,661,075 | 80.10% |
Elected |
Legislative elections[]
Election | Party leader | Performance | Rank | Government | ||||
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Votes | % | ± pp | Seats | +/– | ||||
1995 | No data | 1 / 260
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New | 13th | Support | |||
2000 | 2 / 110
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1 | 3rd | Support | ||||
2004 | 0 / 110
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2 | 10th | Extra-parliamentary | ||||
2008 | Vasil Zadnyaprany | 22,763 | 0.42% |
New | 0 / 110
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0 | 7th | Extra-parliamentary |
2012 | 79,078 | 1.51% |
1.09 | 1 / 110
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1 | 4th | Support | |
2016 | 147,378 | 2.87% |
1.36 | 3 / 110
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2 | 3rd | Support | |
2019 | 355,971 | 6.75% |
3.88 | 6 / 110
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3 | 2nd | Support |
References[]
- ^ https://rpts.by/contacts/ Контакты
- ^ http://rpts.by/1065/chlenstvo-v-rpts-prevysilo-8-tys-chelovek/ Членство в РПТС превысило 8 тыс. человек
- ^ https://books.google.ru/books?hl=ru&id=purcAAAAIAAJ&dq=«республиканская+партия+труда+и+справедливости»&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=левоцентристский Динамика социалных процессов в условиях государственной независимости Беларуси
- ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "Belarus". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
- ^ Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus Archived 20 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Q&A: Belarus elections". 26 September 2008. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ "Республиканская партия труда и справедливости: Поздравляем Крым, Севастополь и Россию. | Республиканская партия труда и справедливости". rpts.by. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Белорусская оппозиция требует от Лукашенко признать Крым российским - ПолитНавигатор. Новости Украины и России. ПолитНавигатор. Новости Украины и России (in Russian). 2 March 2018. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
- ^ https://www.belta.by/society/view/zadneprjanyj-iskljuchen-iz-chlenov-respublikanskoj-partii-truda-i-spravedlivosti-420661-2020/ Заднепряный исключен из членов Республиканской партии труда и справедливости
- ^ https://minjust.gov.by/directions/compare_coverage/registration/information/ Сведения о политических партиях, зарегистрированных в Республике Беларусь
- ^ Inter-Parliamentary Union
External links[]
- Official website (in Russian)
- 1993 establishments in Belarus
- Democratic socialist parties in Europe
- Labour parties
- Political parties established in 1993
- Political parties in Belarus
- Socialist parties in Belarus
- Eastern European political party stubs
- Belarus politics stubs