What % of your country’s parliament is held by pro-Russian parties.
February 14, 2025
I am from Croatia and the answer is 0, not a single party represented in our parliament is pro-Russian. How about your country? And say what your country is.
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Sadly at the moment close to 30%.
Basically they own the parliament, which you already guessed from my flair.
Zero at party level in both the Scottish and UK parliaments, some individual MPs/MSPs are potentially compromised though I suspect.
18/460=3.9% in Poland.
Only “Konfederacja” is semi-openly pro-Russian in Poland. They generally try to hide this aspect, since it’s *very* unpopular in Poland. Also, this is pretty loose bunch (I mean, this is literally a coalition of monarchists, nationalists, and libertarians, under umbrella of one party, because neither one would be able to get over 5% of total votes requirement on their own), so not every member is explicitly pro-Russia.
Right now, 12% (AfD + BSW). We’re having an election on the 23rd, it is expected AfD + BSW will get 25%-30% of the parliament seats (largely depends on whether BSW is allowed to enter the parliament).
It is rather unlikely either of those two parties will become part of the government, however they shape the politics by voicing populism.
22.5% sadly. Could be worse though, innit
None at party level, though there are elements within the Sweden Democrats and the Left Party that are pro-Russia.
0%
The historically pro-Russian/communist party Rødt (furthest left-leaning party in parliament) is pro-Ukraine and against Putin’s Russia, and no other party has ever really been pro-Russia. The most right-leaning parties are also pro-Ukraine/anti-Russia. So yeah, all 10 parties in our parliament are currently anti-Russian.
Well, none of the Croatian parties are *directly* pro-Russian, but obviously Most and DOMiNO at the very least would not mind a local little Orban here. The representatives of Most have been outspoken about cutting aid to Ukraine, as well.
Luckily both parties are small and possibly sliding into irrelevance. They’ll be replaced by some other party from that spectrum, no doubt, but even with the far-right in Croatia you can never be totally sure what their deal will be geopolitically.
Finland: 0 % or close to. Russia is not popular even among our far-right. Russia has during the last 1000 years been too difficult a neighbour.
I’m in the USA. I would say about 50%.
In Slovakia, I would say 52 out of 150 (42 for SMER and 10 for SNS), which is around 35 %.
124 seats (Front National), meaning 21,53% of the lower house. That’s the figure for pro-Russian *parties*. A good half of the regular right-wing is also pro-Russian, a 1/10th of the radical left is too, meaning the figure for pro-Russian representatives must be around 30%.
Materially, it means 0%, because they can’t win anything alone, and because they have to keep extremely quiet about their allegiances right now. The loudest ones are probably on the far-left *but because they’re already isolated inside their own party AND their own parliamentary group*, meaning they have nothing to lose. The right wing has much more to lose, much more ties with Russia, Russian oligarchs, Russian groups (Gazprom etc)… So they certainly don’t want any attention on that right now.
An increasing chunk of Macron’s majority is also salivating at Trump and other illiberal figures, or at the idea that “the rule of law isn’t *that* important”, “maybe anti-corruption judges aren’t *that* essential”, etc… Which is basically the same shit, however it doesn’t translate into pro-Russia, they’re mainly trying to open their own shop: similar idiocy, but homegrown, built *against* foreign powers.
FYI Macron just decided to appoint president of the supreme court (Cour Constitutionnelle) the very guy who floated the idea “Macron could bend the rules and do a third term”. Oh, and, yes our democracy is so flawed the true chief of the executive is also the President of France and also the one picking the president of the supreme court however he wants ; we’re farting in the general direction of separation of powers.
11,73% at the moment, although I fear that number will go up in the near future.
Openly pro-russian none.
Semi-Pro Russian there is the Communist Party that holds four seats or around 1.7% of seats.
More worryingly Chega with 50 seats corresponding to 18.07%, also has authoritarian leanings, had Russian backing and enablers, although it’s unclear how deeply they have been compromised.
Greece: around 15%
Russian money seems to make its way into Reform coffers in the UK.
There are a couple in Denmark. Not sure they are actually pro-russian, they are just populists who prostitute themselves for anything they think may give them attention and/or votes.
5/650 in the UK, and even that’s somewhat debatable. Although we have had a few independents in at the last election, and I’m not sure about their position on Russia, so it could be more, but thankfully all but one party is staunchly pro-Ukraine
All of them, 100% are Putin’s willing sycophants that unanimously rubberstamp oppression after oppression. They do pass normal laws too, but their preferred language is to restrict, or to ban, or to criminalise. Maybe they have a monthly quota of repressive laws to adopt, in addition to bills passed down from the executive branch.
How many are pro-*Russian* as in willing to improve the lives of the people they are technically supposed to represent? Probably few. A seat in the State Duma is usually a reward for your loyalty to the regime, not a result of elections.
0 in Sweden, pretty much political suicide for any party to even touch the subject off a pro Russian stance
arguably 0%
In Romania, for the chamber of deputies(a total of 331):
SOS, far right, 28 chairs, 8.5%
POT, far right, 24 chairs, 7.25%
AUR, far right, 63, 19%.
For the senate(total 136 chairs):
SOS, 12 chairs, 8.8%
POT, 9 chairs, 6.6%
AUR, 28 chairs, 20%.
AUR is an insteresting one because they are pro EU declaratively but they are supporting the Russian puppet candidate to presidency.
this means we have about 16% openly pro russian but 35% if we count the ones with questionable behaviour
Difficult question in Estonia. The National Conservatives hold 11% at the moment – they are officially not pro Russia but their talking points in important and critical topics align with Putins intrests. If confronted on this, they claim that they stand for the interests of Estonia. Same old playbook in my opinion.
0%
However the party closest to being pro-russian has 12% of parliament seats and are currently in opposition. The Centre Party (very misleading name) is a right-wing, conservative, traditionalist populist party which isn’t pro-russian (at least on the surface) but has made some anti-Ukraine comments, like opposing Ukrainian refugees and funding for weapons in Ukraine. I’ve seen plenty of their supporters espousing pro russian views online though. These are people who have around 40% support for Trump while the rest of the parties have 5% or less support for Trump. And as we know supporting Trump is a slippery slope into supporting Russia.
Czechia – 10% is SPD. Other 35.5% is ANO, but I wouldn’t say that they are completely pro-Rustians, they just take the populist stance, war bad, let’s do Munich 2.0.
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Sadly at the moment close to 30%.
Basically they own the parliament, which you already guessed from my flair.
Zero at party level in both the Scottish and UK parliaments, some individual MPs/MSPs are potentially compromised though I suspect.
18/460=3.9% in Poland.
Only “Konfederacja” is semi-openly pro-Russian in Poland. They generally try to hide this aspect, since it’s *very* unpopular in Poland. Also, this is pretty loose bunch (I mean, this is literally a coalition of monarchists, nationalists, and libertarians, under umbrella of one party, because neither one would be able to get over 5% of total votes requirement on their own), so not every member is explicitly pro-Russia.
Right now, 12% (AfD + BSW). We’re having an election on the 23rd, it is expected AfD + BSW will get 25%-30% of the parliament seats (largely depends on whether BSW is allowed to enter the parliament).
It is rather unlikely either of those two parties will become part of the government, however they shape the politics by voicing populism.
22.5% sadly. Could be worse though, innit
None at party level, though there are elements within the Sweden Democrats and the Left Party that are pro-Russia.
0%
The historically pro-Russian/communist party Rødt (furthest left-leaning party in parliament) is pro-Ukraine and against Putin’s Russia, and no other party has ever really been pro-Russia. The most right-leaning parties are also pro-Ukraine/anti-Russia. So yeah, all 10 parties in our parliament are currently anti-Russian.
Well, none of the Croatian parties are *directly* pro-Russian, but obviously Most and DOMiNO at the very least would not mind a local little Orban here. The representatives of Most have been outspoken about cutting aid to Ukraine, as well.
Luckily both parties are small and possibly sliding into irrelevance. They’ll be replaced by some other party from that spectrum, no doubt, but even with the far-right in Croatia you can never be totally sure what their deal will be geopolitically.
Finland: 0 % or close to. Russia is not popular even among our far-right. Russia has during the last 1000 years been too difficult a neighbour.
I’m in the USA. I would say about 50%.
In Slovakia, I would say 52 out of 150 (42 for SMER and 10 for SNS), which is around 35 %.
124 seats (Front National), meaning 21,53% of the lower house. That’s the figure for pro-Russian *parties*. A good half of the regular right-wing is also pro-Russian, a 1/10th of the radical left is too, meaning the figure for pro-Russian representatives must be around 30%.
Materially, it means 0%, because they can’t win anything alone, and because they have to keep extremely quiet about their allegiances right now. The loudest ones are probably on the far-left *but because they’re already isolated inside their own party AND their own parliamentary group*, meaning they have nothing to lose. The right wing has much more to lose, much more ties with Russia, Russian oligarchs, Russian groups (Gazprom etc)… So they certainly don’t want any attention on that right now.
An increasing chunk of Macron’s majority is also salivating at Trump and other illiberal figures, or at the idea that “the rule of law isn’t *that* important”, “maybe anti-corruption judges aren’t *that* essential”, etc… Which is basically the same shit, however it doesn’t translate into pro-Russia, they’re mainly trying to open their own shop: similar idiocy, but homegrown, built *against* foreign powers.
FYI Macron just decided to appoint president of the supreme court (Cour Constitutionnelle) the very guy who floated the idea “Macron could bend the rules and do a third term”. Oh, and, yes our democracy is so flawed the true chief of the executive is also the President of France and also the one picking the president of the supreme court however he wants ; we’re farting in the general direction of separation of powers.
11,73% at the moment, although I fear that number will go up in the near future.
Openly pro-russian none.
Semi-Pro Russian there is the Communist Party that holds four seats or around 1.7% of seats.
More worryingly Chega with 50 seats corresponding to 18.07%, also has authoritarian leanings, had Russian backing and enablers, although it’s unclear how deeply they have been compromised.
Greece: around 15%
Russian money seems to make its way into Reform coffers in the UK.
There are a couple in Denmark. Not sure they are actually pro-russian, they are just populists who prostitute themselves for anything they think may give them attention and/or votes.
5/650 in the UK, and even that’s somewhat debatable. Although we have had a few independents in at the last election, and I’m not sure about their position on Russia, so it could be more, but thankfully all but one party is staunchly pro-Ukraine
All of them, 100% are Putin’s willing sycophants that unanimously rubberstamp oppression after oppression. They do pass normal laws too, but their preferred language is to restrict, or to ban, or to criminalise. Maybe they have a monthly quota of repressive laws to adopt, in addition to bills passed down from the executive branch.
How many are pro-*Russian* as in willing to improve the lives of the people they are technically supposed to represent? Probably few. A seat in the State Duma is usually a reward for your loyalty to the regime, not a result of elections.
0 in Sweden, pretty much political suicide for any party to even touch the subject off a pro Russian stance
arguably 0%
In Romania, for the chamber of deputies(a total of 331):
SOS, far right, 28 chairs, 8.5%
POT, far right, 24 chairs, 7.25%
AUR, far right, 63, 19%.
For the senate(total 136 chairs):
SOS, 12 chairs, 8.8%
POT, 9 chairs, 6.6%
AUR, 28 chairs, 20%.
AUR is an insteresting one because they are pro EU declaratively but they are supporting the Russian puppet candidate to presidency.
this means we have about 16% openly pro russian but 35% if we count the ones with questionable behaviour
Difficult question in Estonia. The National Conservatives hold 11% at the moment – they are officially not pro Russia but their talking points in important and critical topics align with Putins intrests. If confronted on this, they claim that they stand for the interests of Estonia. Same old playbook in my opinion.
0%
However the party closest to being pro-russian has 12% of parliament seats and are currently in opposition. The Centre Party (very misleading name) is a right-wing, conservative, traditionalist populist party which isn’t pro-russian (at least on the surface) but has made some anti-Ukraine comments, like opposing Ukrainian refugees and funding for weapons in Ukraine. I’ve seen plenty of their supporters espousing pro russian views online though. These are people who have around 40% support for Trump while the rest of the parties have 5% or less support for Trump. And as we know supporting Trump is a slippery slope into supporting Russia.
Czechia – 10% is SPD. Other 35.5% is ANO, but I wouldn’t say that they are completely pro-Rustians, they just take the populist stance, war bad, let’s do Munich 2.0.