[2] In a presidential republic, the party of power typically forms a legislative block that backs the executive.
as having a hierarchical top-down structure, being centralised, organised in clientelistic networks, lacking a defined or coherent ideology and playing a subordinate role towards the bureaucracy.
[6] The use of the concept and of the term "party of power" has been criticized, including by those who claim that, strictly speaking, United Russia and Amanat do not possess or exercise power themselves.
A party which supports the current president without difficulty wins parliamentary elections.
[citation needed] These parties were specially established for support of the incumbent president or prime minister in the Russian parliament: