Party of Workers' Self-Government

The Party of Workers' Self-Government (Russian: Партия самоуправления трудящихся, Partiya samoupravleniya trudyashchikhsya, PST) was a political party in Russia.

Party of Workers' Self-Government
Партия самоуправления трудящихся
AbbreviationPST (English)
ПСТ (Russian)
LeaderLevon Chakhmakhchyan[1]
FounderSvyatoslav Fyodorov
Founded28 January 1995[2]
Registered6 March 1995
Dissolved6 March 2006
HeadquartersMoscow, Russia
NewspaperThird estate
IdeologySocial democracy
Political positionCentre-left
Colours  Red
Slogan"From wage labor to free"
(Russian: "От наёмного труда - к свободному")

History

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The party was established by Svyatoslav Fyodorov. In the 1995 parliamentary elections the party received 4% of the proportional representation vote,[3] failing to cross the electoral threshold. However, it won a single constituency seat in the State Duma.[4] Fyodorov contested the presidential elections the following year, finishing sixth out eleven candidates with 0.9% of the vote.

The party did not contest any further elections;[5] Fyodorov formed a new alliance, the Andreii Nikolayev and Svyatoslav Fyodorov Bloc, which won one seat.[6]

References

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  1. ^ История Российской партии самоуправления трудящихся
  2. ^ Партия самоуправления трудящихся
  3. ^ Dieter Nohlen & Philip Stöver (2010) Elections in Europe: A data handbook, p1651 ISBN 978-3-8329-5609-7
  4. ^ 1995 Parliamentary elections Archived 2004-10-10 at the Wayback Machine Political Transformation and the Electoral Process in Post-Communist Europe
  5. ^ Nohlen & Stöver, p1645
  6. ^ 1999 Parliamentary elections Archived 2015-05-05 at the Wayback Machine Political Transformation and the Electoral Process in Post-Communist Europe