Agrarian Party of Russia

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The Agrarian Party of Russia (Agrarnaya Partiya Rossii, Аграрная Партия России (АПР) is a political party in Russia. Founded in 1993. Its headquarters are located in Moscow.

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 run 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.

External link

• Official web site