Unity (Russian political party) received 23.32 percent of the vote and won 72 of 441 seats (second result after the Communist Party of the Russian Federation). Later ten more seats joined the faction. Shoygu remained Emergencies Minister and did not go into the new State Duma. On January 12, 2000 the party elected Boris Gryzlov leader of its faction. The party supported Vladimir Putin in the 2000 presidential elections. In April 2001 the Unity party and the Fatherland - All Russia movement took the decision to unite into a single political party, United Russia. Unity (Russian political party) Unity () was a Russian political
Idea (political party) in 2001 as the Alliance of the New Citizen (ANO, which means YES in Slovak). It was the first modern political party in Slovakia to consider itself to be a liberal political party. Its leader Pavol Rusko was also the founder and former owner of Markíza (the biggest commercial TV channel in Slovakia). Rusko at first thought to join the Party of Civic Understanding (SOP) which was part of the previous government, yet after some bad blood, around January 2001 Rusko decided to create a new political party. In August 2002, Pavol Rusko claimed that the party is financed completely