The Gennady Zyuganov presidential campaign, 2012 was the presidential campaign of
Gennady Zyuganov
Gennady Andreyevich Zyuganov (; born 26 June 1944) is a Russian politician who has been the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and served as Member of the State Duma since 1993. He is also the Chair of the Union ...
in the
2012 Russian presidential election
Presidential elections were held in Russia on 4 March 2012. There were five officially registered candidates: four representatives of registered parties, and one nominal independent. The election was the first one held after constitutional amend ...
. This was the fourth presidential campaign of Zyuganov, who had been a candidate in both the
1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
,
2000
2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year.
Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...
, and
2008
2008 was designated as:
*International Year of Languages
*International Year of Planet Earth
*International Year of the Potato
*International Year of Sanitation
The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...
elections.
Campaigning
In September 2011, Zyuganov became the CPRF's candidate for the
2012 presidential election. Zyuganov declared that the election would be a referendum on "a 20 year experiment" of the liberalization of the Russian political sphere.
Zyuganov referred to the existing government as a "gang of folks who...have humiliated the country."
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In the 2012 Russian presidential election on 4 March 2012, Zyuganov once again came in second place by receiving 17% of the vote.the results of the presidential elections in Russia 2012]
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Positions
Zyuganov promised a return to socialism
Socialism is an economic ideology, economic and political philosophy encompassing diverse Economic system, economic and social systems characterised by social ownership of the means of production, as opposed to private ownership. It describes ...
and an end to Russia's economic decline.[
]
See also
* Gennady Zyuganov presidential campaign, 1996
* Gennady Zyuganov presidential campaign, 2000
* Gennady Zyuganov presidential campaign, 2008
References
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