Party of Economic Freedom

The party was created in May 1992 on the basis of a number of structures of the “new economy”, primarily the Russian Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange (RTSB), which controlled up to 12% of the Russian economy. On June 25 of the same year, the party was registered with the Ministry of Justice.

In the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the first convocation in December 1993, two members of the PEC were elected as deputies in the single-mandate majority districts: I. Khakamada (Moscow) and Leonid Nekrasov (Sverdlovsk Region).

In early 1994, State Duma deputy Igor Ustinov joined PES.

On March 28-29, 1995 , the 4th congress of PES was held in Moscow. Party leadership elections were held. The chairman (and chairman of the board) of the PES remained Konstantin Borova, the co-chairs were Yuri Lysenko (Murmansk), L. Nekrasov (Yekaterinburg), O. Tarasenko (Lipetsk) and A. Yankovsky (Novosibirsk), the General Secretary - L. Shpigel, the chairman of the program committee - Andrey Soroko. Another 38 people were elected members of the Political Council. The congress adopted the Economic Program and the Military Program.

In the same year, on August 16 and September 4, the closed fifth congress of the PEC was held in two stages, at which the party’s election platform was adopted (under the slogan "Freedom, Democracy, Market") and the strategy for the elections in December 1995 was discussed. Attitude to power was defined as “conditional opposition”.

On the eve of the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation of the second convocation, the Central Election Commission on September 12, 1995 certified the lists of candidates from PECs consisting of 76 people (federal list) and 46 (list of single-member districts) ^[2] . The first three were K. Borova, L. Nekrasov and former cosmonaut Vladimir Kovalenok . The leader of the Democratic Union of Russia (DSR) party, Valeria Novodvorskaya, also entered the PES list.

The federal list was registered on October 31, 1995 with 55 candidates. After registration V. Kovalenok dropped out of it. In single-mandate constituencies, 15 candidates nominated by PES received registration.

The PES election campaign was distinguished by a number of original appeals, such as: “Drink the 37th”, have a snack on the 38th, vote for the 39th! ”(N37 - number of the Beer Lovers Party, emblem - beer mug, 38 - Ivan Rybkin block, emblem - goldfish, 39 - PES); or “I vote for Pear!” (“Yabloko” - Yavlinsky block, Anastasia Grusha - candidate for PES in the district N193).

In the elections to the State Duma of the second convocation on December 17, 1995, PES did not overcome the 5 percent barrier, receiving 88,416 votes, or 0.13% (35th place out of 43 participants). In the single-mandate majority districts, 15 (16?) Candidates from PES were registered, of which only Konstantin Borovoi was elected deputy of the State Duma (Tushinsky District N200, Moscow, 14.65%). PEC co-chair A. Yankovsky (Zaeltsovsky District N126, Novosibirsk Oblast, 15.59%), who ran as an independent candidate nominated by a group of voters, also became a deputy.

In January 1996, an initiative group of voters, consisting of members of the PEC, nominated Konstantin Borovoy for the presidency of Russia. The Central Election Commission registered the initiative group (authorized representatives - Arseny Chanyshev and A. Soroko-Tsyupa). Signatures for the nomination were not collected (and in fact were not collected).

Two months before the presidential election on April 8, 1996, a joint meeting of the political council and the Interregional Council of the PES took place, at which the party’s position in the upcoming presidential election was examined. The decision of the Political Council on supporting the candidacy of Grigory Yavlinsky , the leader of the Yabloko party, was supported. In the second round, which included Boris Yeltsin and Gennady Zyuganov, PES called for a vote for Yeltsin.

Since 1997, one of the co-chairs of the party was A. Yankovsky

In 1996-1998, the Party of Economic Freedom was invisible, although Borovoy himself remained one of the most frequently speaking in the press and from various stands politician and one of the most active deputies of the State Duma. Borovoy regarded the government of Yevgeny Primakov as a communist government and from the very beginning advocated his resignation.

At the end of 1998 and the beginning of 1999, Konstantin Borovoy took part in the creation of the right-centrist coalition “ Just Cause ”, and at the same time, on the initiative of Borovoy, a narrower “Anti-Communist Front” (PES, DSR, Moscow Anti-Fascist Center, Anti-Fascist Youth Action) was established.

On May 28, 1999, a congress was held at PES headquarters ratifying the party’s joining the Just Cause coalition. A list of candidates from PES was approved and sent for approval to the coalition (the first three are K. Borovoi, L. Shpigel, V. Novodvorskaya).

On August 24, 1999, Sergei Kiriyenko , Boris Nemtsov and Irina Khakamada announced the establishment of the Union of Right Forces bloc , which included the Just Cause coalition (most), the New Force movement of Sergei Kiriyenko and part of the Voice of Russia movement Konstantin Titova ^[3] .

After the unification of the Union of Right Forces on September 13, 1999, a congress of PES was held, at which it was decided that candidates for deputies of the State Duma from PES would participate in the elections as agreed with the ATP - according to its lists and single-mandate constituencies, and the PES itself would refuse official participation in the election campaign ("independently or as part of a bloc").

The registration of the Party of Economic Freedom has expired.

In January 2003, the Ministry of Justice denied the party registration due to non-compliance with the charter and improper paperwork. The refusal in court was not appealed ^[4] . However, on February 8, the party was registered ^[5] .

In August of the same year, the party was on the verge of cancellation of registration and had to confirm information about the presence of regional branches ^[6] . As a result, the party was deprived of registration on December 17, 2003, since at least 45 regional branches were not created. The party was not allowed to the December State Duma elections of the 4th convocation ^[7] .

• Party of Economic Freedom (PES)