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Republican Party of Labour and Justice

Republican Party of Labour and Justice

Belarusian political party

The Republican Party of Labour and Justice[lower-alpha 1] (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 political party in Belarus founded by Ivan Antonovich in 1993.[7] The chairman is Vasil Zadnyaprany [ru]. The party is considered to be supportive of the government of president Alexander Lukashenko.[8]

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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.[9][10] The party has also called for the president Lukashenko to accept the results of the referendum.[10]

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.[11][12]

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.[13] 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.

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Notes

  1. According to the website, the name of the party in English is Republican Labor and Justice Party[6]

References

  1. [1]
    https://rpts.by/contacts/ Archived 7 March 2021 at the Wayback Machine Контакты
  2. [2]
    http://rpts.by/1065/chlenstvo-v-rpts-prevysilo-8-tys-chelovek/ Archived 8 August 2020 at the Wayback Machine Членство в РПТС превысило 8 тыс. человек
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    Nordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "Belarus". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 28 November 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2019.
  4. [4]
    Boguzkij, Oleg; Martinowitsch, Wiktor; Feduta, Alexander (2003). Politische Parteien in Belarus als notwendiger Bestandteil der Zivilgesellschaft (PDF). p. 49.
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    https://books.google.com/books?id=purcAAAAIAAJ&q=левоцентристский Archived 2 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine Динамика социалных процессов в условиях государственной независимости Беларуси
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    https://rpts.by/en Republican Labour and Jusice Party
  7. [7]
    Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Belarus Archived 20 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  8. [8]
    "Q&A: Belarus elections". 26 September 2008. Archived from the original on 12 October 2018. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  9. [9]
    "Республиканская партия труда и справедливости: Поздравляем Крым, Севастополь и Россию. | Республиканская партия труда и справедливости". rpts.by. Archived from the original on 18 September 2018. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
  10. [10]
    Белорусская оппозиция требует от Лукашенко признать Крым российским - ПолитНавигатор. Новости Украины и России. ПолитНавигатор. Новости Украины и России (in Russian). 2 March 2018. Archived from the original on 17 September 2018. Retrieved 17 September 2018.
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    https://www.belta.by/society/view/zadneprjanyj-iskljuchen-iz-chlenov-respublikanskoj-partii-truda-i-spravedlivosti-420661-2020/ Archived 6 February 2021 at the Wayback Machine Заднепряный исключен из членов Республиканской партии труда и справедливости
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    https://minjust.gov.by/directions/compare_coverage/registration/information/ Archived 6 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine Сведения о политических партиях, зарегистрированных в Республике Беларусь
  13. [13]
    "Inter-Parliamentary Union". Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 21 March 2012.
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