Socialist Party of Ukraine
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| Соціалістична Партія України | |
| Transl. : | Socialistyčna Partija Ukraïny |
| Transcr. : | Socialistichna Partija Ukrajiny |
The Socialist Party of Ukraine ( SPU ) is a left-wing political party in Ukraine .
history
The SPU is one of the oldest parties in independent Ukraine and was registered as early as 1991. After the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU) was banned , the SPU was founded, which at first was more orthodox Marxist. The party's chairman has been Oleksandr Moros since 1991 . Moros was the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party in the 1994, 1999 and 2004 elections, taking third place with 13.04%, 11.29% and 5.81% of the vote, respectively. After the 2004 presidential elections, he supported the future President Viktor Yushchenko . On July 6, 2006, Moroz was elected President of the Ukrainian Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada , with the support of the Party of Regions, the Socialist Party and the Communist Group .
After the parliamentary elections on March 26, 2006, the SPU first negotiated with the constituencies Nascha Ukrajina and Blok Juliji Tymoshenko to form a government coalition, but eventually signed a coalition agreement with the Party of Regions of Viktor Yanukovych and the Communist Party of Ukraine .
In the 2007 parliamentary elections , the Socialist Party narrowly failed to pass the three percent hurdle with 2.86% of the vote . The poor performance plunged the party into a deep crisis. Demands within the party for Oleksandr Moros' resignation were ultimately rejected. Like four other parties, the SPU lodged a complaint with the Supreme Court of Ukraine against the course of the election, claiming that there were irregularities in the counting. The official announcement of the final result was then prohibited for the time being. Since October 21, the court has been investigating the allegations. The SPU's complaint was ultimately rejected and the way paved for the establishment of the official final result.
Oleksandr Moros was on the XIII. SPU party congress in November 2007 re-elected chairman. The only opposing candidate, Stanislav Nikolayenko , withdrew his candidacy shortly before the election. In July 2010, the then Ukrainian Minister of Economic Affairs, Vasyl Zuzko , who is regarded as a confidante of Viktor Yanukovych, was elected chairman of the SPU, an office that was held until August 2001. In the parliamentary elections in 2012 , the SPU only achieved 0.45% of the vote and thus clearly missed entry into the Verkhovna Rada.
Political orientation and current importance
The SPU positions itself politically between the resurrected Communist Party and the competing social democratic parties in Ukraine. In 2003 the party had 70,000 members. Since then, its political significance has declined significantly, due to several lost elections and the failure of the 2007 parliamentary elections.
In February 2008 it was announced that the SPU - probably in view of the consistently poor poll numbers - is considering a union with other left-of-center parties. In the foreground was the United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine . An association with this party was later rejected. In the early elections to the Kiev city parliament and the mayor's office, the SPU received 0.29% of the vote. The mayoral candidate Mykola Danylin supported 0.15% of the voters. In view of the poor election result, Danylin, who was also the chairman of the Kiev city association of the SPU, declared his resignation from the party and described it as "dead" and "no longer a business project by Moros and Co." In view of the possibility of renewed early elections to the Verkhovna Rada, Oleksandr Moros called in September 2008 on the Communist Party of Ukraine to form a left-wing electoral alliance.
Great personalities
- Oleksandr Moros , long-time chairman and multiple presidential candidate
- Wassylzuschko , temporarily chairman of the SPU and former Ukrainian interior minister
References
- ↑ NEWSru.ua: Политисполком СПУ отказал Морозу в отставке ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2007 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: Мороза переизбрали председателем СПУ ( Memento of the original from November 18, 2007 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.
- ^ Eberhard Schneider: The political system of Ukraine, p. 116
- ↑ NEWSru.ua: Загородний: объединение СПУ с СДПУ (о) неотвратимо ( memento of the original from March 30, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ NEWSru.ua: Секретарь киевского горкома СПУ вышел из "умирающей" партии. Партия обиделась ( Memento of the original from April 8, 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: Мороз официально предложил Симоненко объединиться в блок "левых" сил ( Memento of the original from April 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has not yet been checked automatically. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
