All-Ukrainian "Fatherland" Association

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All-Ukrainian Association "Fatherland"
Batkivshchyna
ВО «Батьківщина» .png
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Party leader Yulia Tymoshenko
founding July 9, 1999
Headquarters Kiev
Alignment Conservatism
pro-European
Parliament seats
25/450
International connections International Democratic Union (associated)
European party European People's Party (observer)
Website ba.org.ua

The All-Ukrainian Association "Fatherland" (Ukrainian Batkivshchyna ) is a political party in Ukraine .

Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Батьківщина"
Transl. : Vseukraïns'ke objednannja "Bat'kivščyna"
Transcr. : Vseukrajinske objednannja "Batkivshchyna"

Orientation and organization

“Fatherland” has no clearly defined ideology and mostly represents populist positions. The party is described partly as a left- or center-left-populist, partly as a national- democratic, liberal-conservative, or center-right party. It thus belongs to the category of catch-all parties (" commonplace parties") in the sense of the political scientist Otto Kirchheimer (1905–65), which endeavor to unite voters with different political orientations. She rejects socialism and " market fundamentalism " alike. Instead, she advocates a third way, which she calls "solidarism".

The Fatherland party has observer status in the European People's Party and is a full member of the International Democratic Union . She advocates Ukraine joining the EU .

The party is strongly oriented towards the person of its founder and chairwoman Yulia Tymoshenko . It is not a member party with a grassroots organization, but a “professional electoral party”. It consists mainly of career politicians, the number of members is unknown. She communicates with her followers via public relations media and the Internet.

history

"Fatherland" was founded on July 9, 1999 by former members of the populist center-left Hromada , including Yulia Tymoshenko and Oleksandr Turchynow . They had left Hromada to protest against the leadership style of chairman Pavlo Lasarenko and in March 1999 they had already founded a parliamentary group called "Fatherland" in the Verkhovna Rada . In December of the same year, then Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko was elected party leader. She has held this post to this day.

After Tymoshenko's appointment as deputy prime minister under the then head of government Viktor Yushchenko , the party initially sided with the government and was considered loyal to President Leonid Kuchma . Even under the impression of the so-called cassette scandal , the party then came into opposition to the authoritarian ruling president and was part of the Ukraine without Kuchma alliance . In the run-up to the parliamentary elections in 2002 , the electoral alliance Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (BJuT) was founded, which received 7.24% of the vote.

In the 2004 presidential elections , which culminated in the “ Orange Revolution ”, “Fatherland” supported Viktor Yushchenko's candidacy. After Yushchenko's victory, Yulia Tymoshenko became Prime Minister for the first time. Oleksandr Turchynov became head of the Ukrainian domestic intelligence service SBU . The All-Ukrainian Association received no further departments. In the following parliamentary elections , the party also took part under the umbrella of the Yulia Tymoshenko bloc, which was able to increase its seat share in the Rada.

In 2008 the party was admitted to the European People's Party as an observer. This came as a surprise to some observers, as “Fatherland” had been considered a center-left party up until then and had shown interest in joining the Socialist International .

Share of votes from “Fatherland” in the 2012 parliamentary elections to Oblasts

In the parliamentary elections on October 28, 2012 , "Vaterland" joined the former BJuT member parties, Party Reforms and Order and Popular Movement of Ukraine (Ruch) with a joint list. Officially, the Yulia Tymoshenkos bloc could no longer run as such, as the changed electoral law did not permit the formation of a bloc, only party lists. The Front of Changes (Front Smin) of Arseniy Yatsenyuk and the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people of Mustafa Abdülcemil Kirimoglu also joined the United Opposition, which is a candidate on the list of the “Fatherland” party. The alliance's top candidate was Yatsenjuk, as the imprisoned Tymoshenko was not allowed to run. The list received 25.54% of the vote and won 103 of the 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada, making it the second largest parliamentary group. In June 2013 the front of change and the small liberal party “Reforms and Order” then completely merged with “Fatherland”.

Since the beginning of the protests in Ukraine in 2013 , "Fatherland", led by Yatsenjuk, has formed an oppositional three-party alliance with the radical nationalist Svoboda party of Oleh Tjahnybok and the UDAR party of professional boxer Vitali Klitschko , which wanted to achieve the resignation of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych . After Yanukovych had fled, the Verkhovna Rada elected Batkivshchyna MP and co-founder Oleksandr Turchynov as parliamentary president on February 22nd and a day later as head of state. Yatsenyuk was elected Prime Minister on February 27, 2014 . He formed a transitional government consisting of politicians from "Fatherland", the Swoboda party and non-party ministers.

In the presidential election in May 2014 , which was made necessary by the overthrow of Yanukovych , Julija Tymoshenko, who has since been released, came back to run, but only came second with 12.8% of the vote, while Petro Poroshenko prevailed in the first ballot. In the run-up to the parliamentary elections in October 2014 , a number of leading members left the party and joined the newly formed Popular Front , including Arseniy Yatsenyuk (who became the chairman of the new party), Oleksandr Turchynov, Interior Minister Arsen Avakov , Social Affairs Minister Lyudmyla Denisova , the General Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Andrij Parubij and Vyacheslav Kyrylenko . As a result, the Fatherland Party suffered heavy losses in the election and only got 5.7%, while the split-off Popular Front was the strongest party with 22.2% of the votes. However, the Fatherland Party was involved in the new government and has two ministers in the Yatsenyuk II cabinet. The Minister for Ecology and Natural Resources and the Minister for Youth and Sport.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  11. ↑ Member parties ( Memento of May 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), European People's Party. Retrieved February 26, 2014.
  12. ↑ Ukraine should become full member of EU, says manifest of Batkivschyna ( Memento from June 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Interfax-Ukraine (June 15, 2013)
  13. ^ Dieter Segert: Political Parties in Ukraine since the Orange Revolution. In: Ukraine on its Way to Europe. Interim Results of the Orange Revolution. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2009, p. 53.
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  15. ^ Thomas Jansen, Steven Van Hecke: At Europe's Service. The Origins and Evolution of the European People's Party. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-19413-9 , pp. 81–82.
  16. ↑ Opposition to form single list to participate in parliamentary elections ( Memento of June 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Kyiv Post (March 2, 2012)
  17. ↑ Mustafa Dzhemiliov is number 12 on the list of the United Opposition “Fatherland” ( Memento from October 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  18. ↑ Yatseniuk wants to meet with Tymoshenko to discuss reunion of opposition ( Memento from June 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), Kyiv Post (April 7, 2012)
  19. ^ Gabriele Baumann: The opposition in Ukraine is sorting itself out. Konrad Adenauer Foundation, June 2013.
  20. ^ First success for the opposition in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 2, 2013.
  21. ^ Protests against the government in Ukraine. Vitali Klitschko calls on protesters to hold out in: RP Online , December 2, 2013.
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