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A political party that is the legal successor of another political party that has joined it.


A political party that is the successor of another political party that has joined it — a federal candidate list of which received less than 3 percent of the votes of voters who participated in voting in the nearest previous elections for deputies of the State Duma, provided that the federal candidate list of this successor political party received 3 percent or more of the votes of voters who participated in voting at these elections1.

  1. Federal Law No. 51-FZ dated May 18, 2005, "On Elections of Deputies of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation" dated May 18, 2005, as amended on October 5, 2015, Article 57, subpara. 2 // RSZ RF. 2005. No. 21. Art. 1919. ↩