Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice should not be confused with Party of Pensioners of Russia.
| Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice | |
| Native Name: | Российская партия пенсионеров за социальную справедливость |
| Abbreviation: | RPPSJ (English) RPPSS (Russian) |
| Founder: | Sergei Atroshenko |
| Leader: | Vladimir Burakov |
| Merged: | A Just Russia (2006–2012) |
| Membership: | 1,000 |
| Foundation: | (refoundation) |
| Position: | Centre[1] |
| Seats1 Title: | State Duma |
| Seats2 Title: | Seats in the Regional Parliaments |
| Headquarters: | Moscow |
| Colours: | Red |
| Country: | Russia |
The Russian Party of Pensioners for Social Justice (RPPSJ; Russian: Российская партия пенсионеров за социальную справедливость, РППСС|Rossiyskaya partiya pensionerov za sotsialnuyu spravedlivost, RPPSS), commonly shortened to the Party of Pensioners (Russian: Партия пенсионеров|Partiya pensionerov|links=no) is a registered political party in Russia.
The party was founded as the Party of Pensioners (Общественно-Политичеcкая организация) in 1997. On November 29, 1997 Sergei Atroshenko was elected as the first chairman. On May 29, 1998 the party was registered with the Ministry of Justice. In the December 1999 State Duma elections the party won 1.95% of the vote.
On December 1, 2001 the party was given its present name.[2] On May 15, 2002 RPP was registered with the Ministry of Justice.
At the legislative elections, 7 December 2003, the alliance of the Russian Pensioners' Party and the Russian Social Justice Party won 3.1% of the popular vote and no seats.
On January 31, 2004, in an extraordinary congress of the party, chairman Sergei Atroshenko was dismissed from his post for their poor performance.
On March 27, 2005 Valery Gartung was elected chairman.
Between 2004 and 2005 RPP has been able to hold candidates in the elections of the parliaments of 12 regions. Their highest result was 20.7% in elections for Magadan Oblast's Regional Duma on May 22, 2005.
On October 9, 2005 RPP won elections in Tomsk, receiving 19.8% of the vote, compared to United Russia's 17.85%.
On December 17, 2005 an extraordinary congress was held to elect new members. Igor L. Zotov was elected Chairman.
The Russian Pensioners' Party merged with the Russian Party of Life and Rodina into a new party, Fair Russia, on 28 October 2006.
After the merger on the 2nd of September, 2007 supporters of the Russian Party of Pensioners created its own Russian public organization "Russian pensioner for Justice" which brought together 88,000 seniors in some 60 regional organizations (Igor L. Zotov became the Chairman of the organization). The organization conducted independent social and political activity aimed at protection of interests of pensioners and low income citizens, came forward with public legislative initiative of the Pension Code adoption in the Russian Federation.
On the 29th of February, 2012 the General Council of the organization led by the Russian Federation State Duma Deputy Igor L. Zotov decided to convert the public organization "Russian pensioners for Justice" into political party "Russian Pensioners For Justice Party" during the next Congress on the 7th of April, 2012 in Moscow.
The current Head of the Central council of the Party is Vladimir Burakov.[3]
In 2018 the party announced that they would support incumbent president Vladimir Putin in the 2018 presidential election.[4] Putin ultimately won with approximately 77% of the vote.
In 2023 the party again announced that they support incumbent president Vladimir Putin in the 2024 presidential election.[5]
The Party of Pensioners finds its main goal in implementing the rights of the older generation and improving the quality of its life.
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| Election | Candidate | First round | Second round | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Votes | % | |||
| 2000 | Did not contest | |||||
| 2004 | ||||||
| 2008 | Party was part of A Just Russia and did not participate in the elections | |||||
| 2012 | Endorsed Vladimir Putin | 46,602,075 | 63.60 | |||
| 2018 | Endorsed Vladimir Putin | 56,430,712 | 76.69 | |||
| 2024 | Endorsed Vladimir Putin | 76,277,708 | 88.48 | |||
| Election | Party leader | Performance | Rank | Government | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ± pp | Seats | +/– | ||||
| 1999 | Sergei Atroshenko | 1,298,971 | New | New | 9th | |||
| 2003 | 1,874,973 | (RPP-PSS) | 1.14 | 0 | 8th | |||
| 2007 | Igor Zotov | Party was part of A Just Russia and did not participate in the elections | ||||||
| 2011 | ||||||||
| 2016 | Vladimir Burakov | 910,848 | 1.73 | 0 | 7th | |||
| 2021 | 1,381,890 | 0.73 | 0 | 6th | ||||