Justice Ministry registers A Just Russia merger
MOSCOW. March 29 (Interfax) - The Russian Justice Ministry has registered the amendments to the charter of the A Just Russia party, according to which A Just Russia has merged with the parties For Truth, and Patriots of Russia, the party press service said.
"The legal formalities associated with the merger of the three parties on the basis of A Just Russia have now been completed. The updated party charter formalizes the new party name, A Just Russia - For Truth, and new positions in the leadership," the press service quoted A Just Russia head Sergei Mironov as saying.
According to the press service, the heads of the aligned parties, Gennady Semigin and Zakhar Prilepin, have formally become co-chairs of the new party.
The charter of A Just Russia was amended at a party congress on February 22. A Just Russia merged with the parties For Truth and Patriots of Russia, Mironov was elected chairman of the joint party, and Semigin and Prilepin became the co-chairs. The full name of the party was changed to A Just Russia - Patriots - For Truth, and the short name of the party was changed to A Just Russia - For Truth.
As Mironov said earlier, the joint party hopes to run second in the State Duma elections in September 2021, leaving behind the Communist Party and the Liberal Democratic Party.
According to its manifesto, the enlarged party calls for the development of a solidarity-based, socially-oriented economy with a higher role of the state. Other goals mentioned in the document are a progressive taxation scale, state regulation of prices on products of natural monopoly entities, "nationalization of key infrastructural sectors," redistribution of incomes from the center to regions, higher pensions, benefits and the minimum wage, and the introduction of a basic income for the population.
