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 | Alexander Khizhnyak |
Founders | Anatol Niatylkin 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[3] Pro-Lukashenko |
Political position | Centre-left[4] to left-wing |
National affiliation | RKSKPPGA |
Continental affiliation | Forum of Socialists of the CIS Countries |
Colours | Red, Green (official) Pink (customary) |
Slogan | «Labor. Justice. Responsibility.» (Russian: «Труд. Справедливость. Ответственность.») |
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[5] political party in Belarus founded by Ivan Antonovich in 1993.[6] The chairman is Vasil Zadnyaprany . The party is considered to be supportive of the government of president Alexander Lukashenko.[7]
Key objectives of the RPTC include the development of the Union State of Russia and Belarus and the Eurasian Economic Union.[citation needed]
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.[citation needed]
The party congratulated Nicolas Maduro on his victory in the presidential election in Venezuela.[citation needed]
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."[citation needed]
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.[8][9] The party has also called for the president Lukashenko to accept the results of the referendum.[9]
The party was one of the first to strongly condemn the Belavezha Accords.[citation needed]
At the extraordinary XIII Congress of the Republican Party of Labor and Justice, held on 12 December 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.[10][11]
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.[12] 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.
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 |
Election | Party leader | Performance | Rank | Government | ||||
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Votes | % | ± pp | Seats | +/– | ||||
1995 | Anatol Niatylkin | No data | 1 / 260
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New | 13th | Support | ||
2000 | 2 / 110
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1 | 3rd | Support | ||||
2004 | Viktar Sakaloŭ | 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 |