Agrarian Party of Russia
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Emblem of Agrarian Party of Russia
The Agrarian Party of Russia (Agrarnaya Partiya Rossii, Аграрная Партия России, АПР) is a left-wing agrarian party in Russia. Founded in February of 1993, it is among the oldest political parties in modern Russia.
The party's current leader is Mikhail Lapshin. In the State Duma election of December 1993, the Agrarian Party of Russia obtained 37 seats in the parliament and won 8% of the popular vote. In the State Duma elections in December 1995, the APR did not make it over the 5% threshold, obtaining only 3.78% of the vote. At the last legislative elections, 7 December 2003, the party won 3.6 % of the popular vote and 3 out of 450 seats.
Member of the Agrarian party Nikolay Kharitonov ran as a presidential candidate of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in Russian presidential election, 2004 and won 13.7% of the vote coming second after Vladimir Putin.
In the 1990s the party deputies were usually allies of the Communist Party in the State Duma and advocated greater government support for the agricultural sector.
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