Peasant Party of Ukraine explained

See also: Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) and Socialist Party of Ukraine.

Country:Ukraine
Peasant Party of Ukraine
Native Name:Селянська партія України
Leader:Zynoviy Kholodniuk
Foundation:25 January 1992
Ideology:Agrarianism
Agrarian socialism
Position:Centre-left to left-wing
Colours:Yellow, Blue
Colorcode:yellow
Headquarters:Kyiv
Website:selpu.com

The Peasant Party of Ukraine (Selyans'ka Partiya Ukrayiny, SelPU) is an agrarian and socialist[1] political party in Ukraine. It was created in 1992 as a successor of the Communist Party of Ukraine that was temporarily outlawed in 1991.[2]

At the Ukrainian parliamentary election in 1994, the party obtained 2.74% of the votes and 19 out of 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada. At the Ukrainian parliamentary election in 1998, it gained in coalition with the Socialist Party of Ukraine 8.56% of the vote and 35 seats.[3] The SelPU faction in the Verkhovna Rada consisted of 14 deputies. After the creation of the new parliamentary faction Solidarity in 2000, a lot of deputies of the party moved to this new faction.[4]

The following elections were not successful for the party. In the elections of 2002 the party won 0.37% of the votes, in 2006 0.31% and in the 2007 elections the party did not participate.[5]

In the 2004 presidential elections, the party supported the candidature of Viktor Yanukovych.

In 2011, the party decided to join the Socialist Party of Ukraine.[6] On 28 January 2012, this decision was declared illegal by the Justice Ministry.[7]

The party did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[8]

In 2019, it supported Yulia Tymoshenko as a presidential candidate.[9]

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.broadleft.org/ua.htm Broadleft.org
  2. http://slv.com.ua/bookz/170/5285.html Establishment of national statehood
  3. http://www2.essex.ac.uk/elect/database/indexCountry.asp?country=UKRAINE&opt=elc Project on Political Transformation and the Electoral Process in Post-Communist Europe
  4. http://www.taraskuzio.net/legal_files/Frishberg_Feb.08.pdf Ukrainian Political Update
  5. Web site: Селянська партія України. DA-TA. uk . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304052409/http://da-ta.com.ua/mon_mainnews/811.htm . 4 March 2016 . 8 September 2020.
  6. http://www.unian.net/eng/news/475267-5-parties-join-moroz.html Information Agency UNIAN
  7. http://www.ukrainebusiness.com.ua/news/4494.html Ukraine Business Online
  8. http://www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2014/wp501e?PT001F01=910 Alphabetical Index of parties in 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election
  9. Web site: 20 March 2023 . Селянська партія підтримала Юлію Тимошенко на виборах президента України . . uk.