Party of Regions

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Партія регіонів ( ukr. )
Party of Regions
Партия регионов ( russ. )
Logo of the PR
Party leader Igor Chichazov
Deputy Chairman vacant
founding October 26, 1997
Headquarters Kiev
Alignment Political center Regionalism
EU skepticism
Russophilia
Colours) blue
Parliament seats
0/450
Website www.partyofregions.com.ua
Cyrillic ( Ukrainian )
Партія регіонів
Transl. : Partija rehioniv
Transcr. : Partia rehioniv
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Партия регионов
Transl .: Partija regionov
Transcr .: Partija regionow
Party of Regions voters in the 2006 general election

The Party of Regions ( PR ) is a political party in Ukraine . She set between 25 February 2010 and 22 February 2014 Viktor Yanukovych the President of Ukraine .

history

The Party of Regions was founded in 1997, initially under the name “Party of the Regional Rebirth of Ukraine”. It was not officially registered until 2000 and gave itself its current name in 2001 after the merger with four other parties, including Petro Poroshenko's Solidarnost . Originally, PR supported President Leonid Kuchma and joined the pro-government election bloc For a United Ukraine in the 2002 parliamentary elections . The party chairman was Viktor Yanukovych from December 2001 to February 2010, and Mykola Azarov has held this office since then. The party's voter potential was always predominantly in the east and also in the south of Ukraine. In the parliamentary elections in October 2012, PR in Donetsk Oblast received over 65% of the vote and in neighboring Luhansk Oblast 57%. However, it achieved its worst election results in the western Ukrainian oblasts of Ternopil with 6.4% and Ivano-Frankivsk with 5.2% of the votes. The Party of Regions was and is often accused of representing the interests of the oligarchs in the eastern Ukrainian industrial area, such as Rinat Akhmetov .

For the 2004 presidential elections , the PR nominated Viktor Yanukovych as a candidate for the first time and gave its political program a left-wing populist orientation, also in order to win voters for the Communist Party . The Party of Regions has also announced that if it wins the election, it will make the Russian language the second official language of the country, aim for a federal state structure and lean more closely to Russia in terms of foreign policy. There are close contacts between the PR and the Russian government. There is a contractually regulated partnership with the ruling party United Russia .

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After the so-called Orange Revolution and the defeat of its presidential candidate Yanukovych by Viktor Yushchenko in the runoff election on December 26, 2004, the party switched to the opposition.

In the parliamentary elections in March 2006 , the Party of Regions surprisingly became the strongest force with 32.12% and won 186 of the 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada . After the failure of the formation of an “Orange Coalition” and the change of the Socialists to the side of the Party of Regions, it formed a coalition with the Socialists and the Communists. In contrast to the Western-oriented parties, the PR spoke out against Ukraine becoming a NATO member, but it supported the country's accession to the EU . It thus moved away from its foreign policy orientation towards Russia.

In the early parliamentary elections in 2007 , PR was able to maintain its position as the strongest force in parliament and, with 34.37%, even won more votes than in 2006. However, the bloc Yulia Tymoshenko and the electoral alliance Our Ukraine / National Self-Defense , the two main opponents of PR, won together a narrow parliamentary majority, since the previous coalition partner of the PR, the Socialist Party , just failed to reach the three percent hurdle . After the election, then-President Yushchenko, in view of the narrow majority in the “orange” camp, called for the Party of Regions to be involved in forming a government. Yet a government was formed without the PR.

In the following years, PR in parliament largely pursued a blockade tactic. The election of a new speaker and a new government was delayed. MPs from the PR and the Communists repeatedly blocked the parliamentary presidium in the meeting room of the Verkhovna Rada, thus preventing debates and votes. After the government was elected in early 2008, the party took the President of Parliament's public plea for Ukraine to join NATO as an opportunity to once again sabotage parliamentary work, which at times came to a complete standstill. This blockade policy also met with criticism from within the own party.

After the 2010 presidential election

Share of votes of the Party of Regions in the 2012 parliamentary elections by oblast

Yanukovych ran for the presidential elections in January 2010 again as a candidate for the PR and won the runoff on February 7, 2010.

On March 17, 2012, the Strong Ukraine party joined the Party of Regions.

Yanukovych was President of Ukraine from February 25, 2010 to February 22, 2014, when he was deposed by parliament (see Euromaidan ) . In the 2012 parliamentary elections , the PR achieved 30.00% of the vote. It had 187 seats in the Verkhovna Rada.

After the coup in Ukraine in 2014

After the coup in Ukraine in 2014 , which Yanukovych called a “coup” , 72 members of the PR left the parliamentary group. Group leader Oleksandr Yefremov called Yanukovych a "traitor"

After the Crimean referendum and the outbreak of the pro-Russian protests in Ukraine at the beginning of 2014, Oleh Zaryov called on March 17 to calm the situation for extensive autonomy of the eastern parts of the country and spoke out in favor of changing the Ukrainian constitution towards a federal system . A condition for a government of national unity is the withdrawal of the language law passed by parliament after the overthrow in February. Party of Regions MPs accused the country's new leadership of being responsible for the loss of Crimea. Rada MP Irina Gorina urged parliament on March 20 to recognize that the Kiev revolution had frightened the people of Crimea and urged other MPs to turn their attention to the country's pro-Russian people. Arseny Yatsenyuk accused her of not having started speaking to the south and east of the country "in a human language" until March 18. His promise not to ban the Russian language and to give the regions more independence had to come much earlier.

On March 28, 2014, Yanukovych declared his resignation from the party. In the weeks after the Maidan coup, the party also lost massive numbers of members in its traditional strongholds.

On March 29, Mychajlo Dobkin was nominated for the presidential candidate of the Party of Regions at a party conference in Kiev; other applicants for the candidacy were Jurij Boiko , Serhiy Tihipko and Oleh Zarjow . Dobkin advocates that the governors of the regions should be democratically elected and not determined by the president , and also advocates the transformation of Ukraine into a federal state . The party congress also decided to expel Yanukovych, the former Prime Minister Mykola Azarov (as incumbent party leader) and Serhiy Arbusov, as well as other politicians associated with Yanukovych's term in office.

On April 7, 2014, the Party of Regions decided to exclude the independent candidates for the presidential election on May 25, 2014, Jurij Boiko, Serhiy Tihipko and Oleh Zaryov.

The Party of Regions did not take part in the 2014 parliamentary elections in Ukraine . Instead, many former members ran for the opposition bloc .

In 2015, chairman Kolesnikov, who had been in office for a year, left the party and moved to the opposition bloc, which he has chaired together with Yuri Boiko since 2016. Igor Chichazov was appointed the new chairman of the Party of Regions.

Politician

Important representatives of PR are:

former members:

  • Viktor Yanukovych , former Prime Minister and former President of Ukraine
  • Rajisa Bohatyrjowa , former secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, former group leader
  • Serhij Tihipko , entrepreneur and independent presidential candidate 2014
  • Jurij Boiko , independent presidential candidate 2014
  • Oleh Zarjow , independent presidential candidate 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e "Регионы" выгнали из своих рядов Тигипко, Бойко и Царева. Тигипко: жулье и сепаратисты ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , NEWSru.ua on April 7, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rus.newsru.ua
  2. ↑ Election Handbook Ukraine 2012 , published by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rus.newsru.ua
  4. ^ "Strong Ukraine" joins the Party of Regions loyal to the government , RIA Novosti on March 17, 2012
  5. ↑ Ukraine: New power structures are emerging , Heise online on February 23, 2014
  6. ↑ Ukraine opposition wants autonomy for the East , New OZ on March 17, 2014
  7. ↑ Ukraine Hunts for a Scapegoat , The Daily Beast on March 20, 2014
  8. ↑ Like in Crimea: Yanukovych wants referenda in all parts of the country , euronews on March 28, 2014
  9. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.russland.ru
  10. ↑ a b c Dobkin, despite ties to Yanukovych, says he will carry Party of Regions banner in presidential election , Kyiv Post on March 28, 2014
  11. ^ Regions Party suggests Dobkin for president , Interfax-Ukraine on March 29, 2014
  12. ↑ Ukraine: Danger of Division , Deutschlandfunk on February 24, 2014
  13. ↑ Партия регионов исключила Януковича, Азарова, Арбузова, Клименко LB.ua from March 29, 2014
  14. ↑ http://sputniknews.com/politics/20140914/192930339/Ukraines-Party-of-Regions-Refuses-to-Participate-in-Rada.html
  15. ^ The leaders of the political party opposition bloc , opposition bloc. 2016. Retrieved November 1, 2016. 
  16. ↑ Congresses of Ukrainian parties to name presidential candidates , ITAR-TASS on March 29, 2014