Current Status
A Just Russia currently has 64 representatives in the 450-seat State Duma. The party holds two committee chairmanships: Committee on Family, Women and Children Affairs (headed by Elena Mizulina) and Committee on Science and High Technologies (headed by Valeriy Chereshnev). In the upper house, the Federation Council, the party has 12 members, representing the interests of different regions. On the sub-national level, the party has a total of 309 deputies in 66 regional assemblies.
The party currently has 400,000 members and claims to be the largest left-wing party in Russia.Template:Http://www.spravedlivo.ru/international/party english/english foreword/ It has regional branches in all federal subjects of Russia.
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