The Belarusian Agrarian Party (russian: Белорусская аграрная партия, Belorusskaya grarnaya partiya; be, Беларуская аграрная партыя, Bielaruskaja ahrarnaja partyja) is an
agrarian socialist
Agrarian socialism is a political ideology that promotes “the equal distribution of landed resources among collectivized peasant villages” This socialist system places agriculture at the center of the economy instead of the industrialization ...
political party
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in
Belarus
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. It supports 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 ...
. The leader of the party is Mikhail Rusy, who succeeded Mikhail Shimansky in 15 March 2008.
Ideology
The party advocates the reform of society on the principles of
democratic socialism
Democratic socialism is a Left-wing politics, left-wing political philosophy that supports political democracy and some form of a socially owned economy, with a particular emphasis on economic democracy, workplace democracy, and workers' self- ...
, the restructuring of the economy on the basis of private and state ownership of the means of production, including land. In agriculture it recognizes the forms: production cooperative, joint-stock company, collective and state farm, peasant farm and small enterprise.
History
It was created in 1992 as the United Agrarian Democratic Party of Belarus (russian: Объединенная аграрно-демократическая партия Беларуси, Obyedinennaya agrarno-demokraticheskaya partiya Belarusi; be, Аб'яднанная аграрно-демократическая партия Беларуси, Abjadnannaja ahrarno-diemokratičjeskaja partija Bielarusi). On 28 January 1994, it changed its name into Agrarian Party.
At the legislative election in 1995, the party obtained 33 out of 198 seats.
The 1996 constitutional crisis split the party into those who supported
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 ...
and those who, together with
Syamyon Sharetski
Syamyon Georgiyevich Sharetski ( be, Сямён Георгіевіч Шарэцкi, Siamion Heorhijevič Šarecki, russian: Семён Георгиевич Шарецкий) was the last acting Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus.
August 2 ...
(the first party chairman), remained in the
Supreme Soviet
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.
Syamyon Sharetski
Syamyon Georgiyevich Sharetski ( be, Сямён Георгіевіч Шарэцкi, Siamion Heorhijevič Šarecki, russian: Семён Георгиевич Шарецкий) was the last acting Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus.
August 2 ...
did not recognize the results of the 1996 constitutional referendum and did not submit to the decision to dissolve the Supreme Soviet. In July 1999, as the head of the legitimate legislative body recognized by the West,
Syamyon Sharetski
Syamyon Georgiyevich Sharetski ( be, Сямён Георгіевіч Шарэцкi, Siamion Heorhijevič Šarecki, russian: Семён Георгиевич Шарецкий) was the last acting Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus.
August 2 ...
was adopted in
Lithuania
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, where he stayed for two years. In July 2001,
Syamyon Sharetski
Syamyon Georgiyevich Sharetski ( be, Сямён Георгіевіч Шарэцкi, Siamion Heorhijevič Šarecki, russian: Семён Георгиевич Шарецкий) was the last acting Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus.
August 2 ...
left for the
United States
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and ceased his political activities.
On September 22, 1999, the party was re-registered.
The IV Party Congress at the end of March 2000 announced its intention to cooperate with the authorities and elected Mikhail Shimansky as its chairman.
On June 12, 2009, the Ministry of Justice of Belarus issued a written warning in connection with the fact that the party did not submit information about its activities to the Ministry.
In
2000
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and
2004
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it only gained 5 and 3 seats in the
House of Representatives
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, respectively.
In
2008
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, the party was reduced to one seat. In the 2016 election, the party lost its remaining seat. It regained a seat in the assembly in the
Agrarian Party of Russia
The Agrarian Party of Russia (APR; ''Agrarnaya Partiya Rossii'', Аграрная Партия России, АПР) was an agrarian political party in Russia. Founded in February 1993, it was among the earliest parties in the Russian Federation ...