The Party of Russian Unity and Accord (Russian: Партия российского единства и согласия, Partiya rossiiskogo edinstva i soglasiya, PRES) was a political party in Russia with centrist, moderate pro-reform positions.
History
The party was established in late 1992. In the 1993 parliamentary elections it received 6.7% of the proportional representation vote,[1] and won 27 of the 450 seats in the State Duma.[2]
In the 1995 elections the party's vote share fell to 0.4%, and it failed to win any proportional seats, although it did win a single district seat.[3][4] It did not contest any further elections.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1650 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
- ^ Elections held in 1993 IPU
- ^ Shevtsova, Lilia (1999). Yeltsin's Russia Myths and Reality. Washington: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. p. 148.
- ^ a b Nohlen & Stöver, p1645