CPRF faction in the State Duma

Communist Party of the Russian Federation
Коммунистическая партия Российской Федерации
Communist Party of the Russian Federation logo
ChamberState Duma
Legislature(s)1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th
Foundation13 January 1994
Member partiesCPRF
Left Front
DPA
DZNS
PresidentGennady Zyuganov (since 1994)
Vice presidentsNikolay Kolomeitsev (since 2016)
Representation
57 / 450
IdeologyCommunism
Social conservatism
WebsitePage on the State Duma website

The Communist Party of the Russian Federation faction in the State Duma is the deputy association of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the State Duma of the VIII convocation (2021–2026).

In the 2021 elections to the State Duma, the CPRF, according to official data, received 18.94% of the vote, which gave it the right to 48 deputy mandates. 9 people nominated by the party won the elections in single-mandate constituencies. Thus, according to the results of the elections to the State Duma, the Communist Party faction received 57 seats in the State Duma of the VIII convocation.[1]

The voting took place in a tense atmosphere and was accompanied by massive violations of electoral legislation, especially in Moscow, where opposition candidates supported by Smart Voting (Valery Rashkin, Denis Parfenov, Mikhail Lobanov, Anastasia Udaltsova, Sergei Obukhov, Mikhail Tarantsov, as well as representatives of other political forces Anastasia Bryukhanova and Sergey Mitrokhin) were in the lead all three days of voting, but after adding the results of remote electronic voting (DEG) they were defeated in all districts,[2] which significantly reduced the possible representation of the party in the new convocation of the Duma. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation did not recognize the results of the elections in Moscow, demanded that the results of the DEG be canceled as falsified[3] and organized mass protests in the format of meetings with deputies.[4]

On October 7, an organizational meeting of the faction was held, at which Gennady Zyuganov was elected its chairman, and Nikolay Kolomeitsev was elected first deputy chairman.[5]

  1. ^ "Результаты выборов-2021. Главные цифры". Коммерсантъ (in Russian). 2021-09-20. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  2. ^ "Ни в одном округе Москвы не победил кандидат в Думу от оппозиции". РБК (in Russian). 2021-09-20. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  3. ^ ""Мы будем требовать отмены электронного голосования": доверенное лицо от КПРФ Николай Платошкин – о нарушениях на выборах в Госдуму". tvrain.ru (in Russian). 2021-09-20. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
  4. ^ "В Москве прошла встреча депутатов-коммунистов с избирателями". kprf.ru. 2021-09-25.
  5. ^ "Г.А. Зюганов возглавил фракцию КПРФ в VIII созыве Госдумы". kprf.ru. 2021-10-07.