The Liberal Democratic Party of Pridnestrovie (LDPP), , uk, Ліберально-демократична партія Придністров'я is a

nationalist Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state. As a movement, nationalism tends to promote the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people), Smith, Anthony. ''Nationalism: Th ...

and

right-wing populist Right-wing populism, also called national populism and right-wing nationalism, is a political ideology that combines right-wing politics and populist rhetoric and themes. Its rhetoric employs anti- elitist sentiments, opposition to the Establ ...

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...

in the breakaway state of

Transnistria Transnistria, officially the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic (PMR), is an unrecognised breakaway state that is internationally recognised as a part of Moldova. Transnistria controls most of the narrow strip of land between the Dniester riv ...

, recognized as part of

Moldova Moldova ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Moldova ( ro, Republica Moldova), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east, and south. The unrecognised state of Transnistr ...

. It was formed on 1 August 2006 by followers of

Vladimir Zhirinovsky Vladimir Volfovich Zhirinovsky, ''né'' Eidelshtein (russian: link=false, Эйдельштейн) (25 April 1946 – 6 April 2022) was a Russian right-wing populist politician and the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) fr ...

and is affiliated with the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. The party leader is Transnistrian politician Valerly Kulakli.

History

The party already existed from the

fall of the Soviet Union The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...

as the Transnistrian branch of the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia and was led by the Minister of Local Economy and Transport of the PMR Alexander Saydakov , who was assassinated in 1998. On 1 August 2006, the regional branch of the LDPR separated from its mother party and became a separate entity, known as Liberal Democratic Party of Pridnestrovie (LDPP).

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External links

Official website of LDPR Pridnestrovie
Parties affiliated with the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia Political parties established in 2006 Political parties in Transnistria Right-wing populist parties Russian political parties in Moldova {{Transnistria-stub