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, country = Belarus The Republican Party of Labour and Justice (RPTS; russian: Республиканская партия труда и справедливости; РПТС, Respublikanskaya partiya truda i spravedlivosti; RPTS; be, Рэспубліканская партыя працы і справядлівасьці; РППС, Respublikanskaja partyja pracy i spraviadlivaści; RPPS) is a

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founded by Ivan Antonovich in 1993. The chairman is . The party is considered to be supportive of the government of president

Alexander Lukashenko Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (as transliterated from Russian language, Russian; also transliterated from Belarusian language, Belarusian as Alyaksand(a)r Ryhoravich Lukashenka;, ; rus, Александр Григорьевич Лука� ...

Activities

Key objectives of the RPTC include the development of the Union State of Russia and Belarus and the

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. 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

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, Kazakhstan's "Birlik", and The

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were included. The RPTC calls for recognition of the independence of

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and

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. The party congratulated

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on his victory in the

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. 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

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on 16 March 2014 in the

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legitimate and supported the will of the inhabitants of

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. The party has also called for the president

Lukashenko Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (as transliterated from Russian; also transliterated from Belarusian as Alyaksand(a)r Ryhoravich Lukashenka;, ; rus, Александр Григорьевич Лукашенко, Aleksandr Grigoryevich Luka ...

to accept the results of the referendum. The party was one of the first to strongly condemn the

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. 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.

Electoral performance

At the Belarusian parliamentary election in 1995, the party obtained 1 out of 198 seats. At the

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in 2000, it gained 2 out of 110 seats in the

. 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

Legislative elections

References

External links

* {{Belarusian political parties 1993 establishments in Belarus Democratic socialist parties in Europe Labour parties Political parties established in 1993 Political parties in Belarus Socialist parties in Belarus