Bryntalov was elected to the
State Duma in
1995. He was reelected to the State Duma in
1999 and served in the State Duma until 2003.
1996 presidential campaign Bryntaslov ran as the candidate of the
Russian Socialist Party in the
1996 Russian presidential election. Bryntsalov announced his candidacy with a speech on February 20. In his speech he declared that money was "man's greatest invention". Bryntsalov claimed that his leadership would eliminate the country's poverty, promising that, if he were elected, there would be, "no poor pensioners, no poor workers, no poor entrepreneurs, no poor farmers." After he had initially filed his registration, the
Central Election Commission 400,000 of his 1.35 million signatures were deemed invalid. Rather than collecting additional signatures (which was still an option, as he had turned-in his registration ahead of the deadline), he appealed the decision to the
Supreme Court. Controversially, the Supreme Court found in favor of Bryntsalov and ruled that 170,000 of the contested signatures were indeed valid. These were enough signatures to place Bryntsalov above the required one-million signatures, thus permitting him to be a candidate in the election. Relatively unknown to the Russian populace, Brytsalov was generally seen as a marginal candidate and was viewed as unlikely to win the election.
2004 presidential campaign Bryntsalov again ran for president in
2004. However, he withdrew from the race in January without having submitted any signatures to register as a candidate. Bryntsalov was perceived to be supporting Putin and his candidacy was seen as an attempt at putting himself forward a show opponent rather than a true challenger. ==Personal life==