Andrei Isayev said newly elected Alexander Babakov was a good organizer, who would help Rodina to overcome the dead-lock.
Babakov, the chairman of the party's presidium and Rodina's top sponsor, replaced former leader Dmitry Rogozin, whose voluntary resignation was accepted earlier today at the party's fourth congress.
"I believe it was the right decision to make," Isayev said. "Rodina has a good chance to correct its [ultra] nationalist tendency, which appeared recently... Much would depend on Babakov's further steps."
Center-left nationalist bloc Rodina was banned from participating in December 4 elections to the Moscow legislature after the ultra-nationalist Liberal Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR) filed a suit with the Moscow city court alleging a Rodina television commercial incited inter-ethnic tension.
The commercial featured three dark-skinned men from the Caucasus tossing a watermelon rind at the feet of a passing Slavic girl pushing a stroller. A voice-over against the background of the Rodina emblem urged people to "remove the rubbish from Moscow."
