Agrarian Party (Belarus)


The Agrarian Party is an agrarian socialist political party in Belarus. It supports the government of president Alexander Lukashenko.
It was created in 1992 as the United Democratic Agrarian Party of Belarus. In 1994, it changed its name into Agrarian Party. The leader of the party is Mikhail Rusy, who succeeded Mikhail Shimansky in 2008.
At the legislative election in 1995, the party obtained 33 out of 198 seats. In 2000 and 2004 it only gained 5 and 3 seats in the House of Representatives, respectively.
In 2008, 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 2019 Belarusian parliamentary election.