Oleh Lyashko's radical party

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Oleh Lyashko's radical party
Radical Party logo
Maidan Kiev 04/13/2014 12-09.JPG
Party leader Oleh Lyashko
founding August 2010
Place of foundation Mykolaiv , UkraineUkraineUkraine 
Headquarters Mykolaiv, UkraineUkraineUkraine 
Alignment Populism
pro- EU
Colours) black red

The Radical Party of Oleh Lyaschkos ( Ukrainian Радикальна Партія Олега Ляшка ) is a populist party in Ukraine and from December 2, 2014, Valery Voshchevskyj was appointed First Vice-Prime Minister of Ukraine in the second cabinet of Arseny for almost a year .

history

The party was founded in Mykolaiv in August 2010 under the name Radical Democratic Party . In August 2011, the politician Oleh Lyaschko was elected party chairman and the party name was changed to Radical Party of Oleh Lyaschko .

Result for the Radical Party in the 2012 general election

program

The party supported the demands of the Euromaidan , the political orientation of the Radical Party is described in media reports as nationalistic , in some cases as right-wing extremist . According to media reports, members of the neo-Nazi group Social-National Assembly were on the party's list of candidates for election to the Kiev city ​​council . According to the assessment of the Ukrainian extremism researcher Anton Schechowzow and the Ukraine expert Andreas Umland , the party has no ideology at all and is only geared towards the person of its leader Lyaschko, who characterizes the surrounding area as "trained populists". Tadeusz Olszański from the Center for Eastern Studies, in turn, classifies the party as left.

The pitchfork in the party logo represents Lyashko's promise to drive out the country's so-called oligarchs “with the pitchfork”, a reference to the peasant uprisings in Ukrainian history.

In the context of the crisis in Ukraine in 2014 , Lyashko attracted attention with some militant demands and actions.

Electoral participation

In the parliamentary elections in 2012 , the party received 1.08% of the vote, Lyashko won a direct mandate in his constituency in Chernihiv Oblast and thus received a seat in the Verkhovna Rada .

Lyashko received 8.32% of the vote in the presidential elections in May 2014 and thus reached third place.

After Lyashko, Serhiy Melnitschuk, the commander of the paramilitary battalion Ajdar , Jurij Schukhevytsch , former chairman of the right-wing extremist UNA-UNSO, and the pop singer and Ukrainian representative at Eurovision , ran among the top list places of the party in the parliamentary elections in Ukraine on October 26, 2014 Song Contest 2013 Slata Ohnewytsch . In eighth place on the list, Valery Voschtschewskyj , who later became the first Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine , ran .

Contrary to what was forecast in polls, which had forecast the party to be almost 20% in the summer, it won 22 seats in the Verkhovna Rada with 7.44% of the vote and is the fifth largest parliamentary group.

On November 21, the party presented a coalition agreement with the four other pro-western parties ( BPP , Popular Front , Fatherland and Self-Help ). On November 27, the new government was ratified by the Rada.

In September 2015, the party withdrew from the coalition.

In the 2019 parliamentary election, the party achieved 4.01 percent and failed to pass the five percent hurdle, which is why it is no longer represented in the Verkhovna Rada.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Official portal of the Verkhovna Rada - “Resolution on the Formation of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine” , accessed on December 6, 2014
  2. ↑ Manuscript of the broadcast Frontal21 from April 22, 2014 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 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. ZDF website , last accessed on August 5, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zdf.de
  3. ↑ By Nazis and Ultra-Nationalists Kurier, July 25, 2014
  4. ↑ a b Jutta Sommerbauer: Populist Ljaschko - The war profiteer of Ukraine. In: DiePresse.com , October 14, 2014.
  5. ↑ Doris Heimann: Oleg Lyaschko has good chances in parliamentary elections in Ukraine. Trained populist without ideology. In: Weser-Kurier (Online), October 26, 2014.
  6. ↑ Center for Eastern Studies: Ukraine's political parties at the start of the election campaign , last accessed on November 8, 2014
  7. ↑ Christoph Herwartz: Ukraine votes on Sunday. To power with an assault rifle and pitchfork. N-tv, October 24, 2014.
  8. ↑ Roman Goncharenko: Dim hope for a new beginning in Ukraine. DW.de, October 2, 2014.
  9. ^ Biography Valery Voshchevskyi on the official website of the Verkhovna Rada , accessed on December 6, 2014
  10. ↑ Roman Goncharenko: Ukraine - But no turn to the right. DW.de, October 26, 2014.
  11. ↑ Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine - Extraordinary Elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine on October 26, 2014 ( Memento of the original of October 28, 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. , accessed November 10, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cvk.gov.ua
  12. ↑ Final results of the parliamentary elections published , NZZ of November 8, 2014
  13. ^ NZZ on the formation of a government