Gennady Zyuganov 2012 presidential campaign

Gennady Zyuganov 2012 presidential campaign

Campaign	Russian presidential election, 2012
Candidate	Gennady Zyuganov First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (1993-present) Leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the State Duma (1993-present) Member of the State Duma (1993-present)
Affiliation	Communist Party of the Russian Federation

The Gennady Zyuganov presidential campaign, 2012 was the presidential campaign of Gennady Zyuganov in the 2012 Russian presidential election. This was the fourth presidential campaign of Zyuganov, who had been a candidate in both the 1996, 2000, and 2008 elections.

Campaigning

In September 2011, Zyuganov again became the CPRF's candidate for the 2012 presidential election. According to Zyuganov, "a gang of folks who cannot do anything in life apart from dollars, profits and mumbling, has humiliated the country" and called for a new international alliance to "counter the aggressive policies of imperialist circles."

Zyuganov declared that the election would be a referendum on "a 20 year experiment" of the liberalization of the Russian political sphere. Zyuganov referred to the existing government as a, "gang of folks who...have humiliated the country." Zyuganov promised a return to socialism and an end to Russia's economic decline.

In the 2012 Russian presidential election on 4 March 2012, Zyuganov once again came in second place by receiving 17% of the vote.

Positions

Main article: Political positions of Gennady Zyuganov

See also

• Gennady Zyuganov presidential campaign, 1996
• Gennady Zyuganov presidential campaign, 2000
• Gennady Zyuganov presidential campaign, 2008