Center-left to socialist party supporting the creation of a supranational Union State of Russia and Belarus wherein Belarus is a equal partner to Russia (this, in variance to a mere subject republic within the Russian Federation as called for by the Belarus Communist Party). Party is allied to Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko and is the third-largest in Parliament after the Communists. Party is led by Alexander Khizhnyak [Respublikanskaya partiya truda i spravedlivosti (RPTS); Рэспубліканская партыя працы і справядлівасьці (РППС)].