Communist Party of Ukraine
The Communist Party of Ukraine ( KPU ) is the oldest political party of today's Ukraine.
History
In the parliamentary elections of 1994 the KPU party succeeded in gaining the Verkhovna Rada. In the presidential election that year, she did not seek its own candidate, but supported the Chairman of the SPU, Olexandr Moroz, who was defeated by Leonid Kuchma.
In the presidential elections of 2004, which led to the so-called "Orange Revolution", the KPU lost heavily on consent and developed into one of the parliamentary parties represented in the Ukrainian smaller. Much of their electorate moved to the Party of Regions, the einschwenkte in advance of the presidential elections on a left- populist policies and also represented as traditional positions of the Communists with their pro-Russian foreign policy.
From 2006, the KPU was involved under Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych in the government. In the parliamentary elections in 2012 she could clearly win votes, the KPU to 13.2 % of the vote and 32 seats in the Verkhovna Rada.
Following the resignation of President Yanukovych in February 2014, the KPU target of attacks by supporters of Euromaidan was. The party headquarters in Kiev was occupied, other offices of the party were placed or destroyed with Molotov cocktails on fire. The deputies of the KPU in the Verkhovna Rada were partially threatened and pressured. In a resolution adopted on February 27, 2014 resolution, the European Parliament condemned the attack on the headquarters of the KPU.
Secretaries General
Secretaries-General ( Chairman ) of the KPU were:
- Georgi Piatakov (1918 )
- Serafima Gopner (1918 )
- Emmanuel Quiring (1918-1919)
- Stanislaw Kossior (1919)
- Rafail Farbman (1920 )
- Vyacheslav Molotov (1920-1921)
- Dmitri Manuilsky (1921-1923)
- Emmanuel Quiring (1923-1925)
- Lazar Kaganovich (1925-1928)
- Kossior Stanislaw (1928-1938)
- Nikita Khrushchev (1938-1947)
- Lazar Kaganovich (1947 )
- Nikita Khrushchev (1947-1949)
- Leonid Melnikov (1949-1953)
- Alexei Kirichenko (1953-1957)
- Nikolai Podgorny (1957-1963)
- Pyotr Shelest (1963-1972)
- Vladimir Schtscherbizki (1972-1989)
- Vladimir Ivashko (1989-1990)
- Gurenko Stanislaw (1990-1991)
- Petro Symonenko (since 1993)
The KPU today
Participation in alliances
Since 2009, the party involved in the block left-wing forces and support in this context, the presidential candidacy of its chairman Pyotr Simonenko. This alliance will also secure the re-entry of the party into parliament after it has lost a lot of votes since the late 90s.
Strongholds
Your best results reached the KPU in the 2007 parliamentary elections in the eastern and southern areas of the Russian-speaking Ukraine. At 10.3 %, the highest individual score they had in the electoral district of Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula. About 9% it reached in the Kherson Oblast, and more than 8% in the Luhansk oblasts, Zaporizhia and Kharkiv. In western Ukraine, the approval for the KPU was significantly weaker. In Ivano-Frankivsk and Ternopil oblasts remained below 1% of the vote.
Election results
- Parliamentary elections in 1998: 24.7%
- Parliamentary elections in 2002: 20.0 %
- Parliamentary elections in 2006: 3.7%
- Parliamentary elections in 2007: 5.4%
- Parliamentary elections in 2012: 13.2%
Active politician
The first list places the KPU in the parliamentary elections occupied in 2007:
Youth organization
The youth organization of the KPU is the Leninist Communist Youth League of Ukraine ( Leninsky kommunistitscheski soyuz molodjoschi Ukrainy ). It maintained as the name of the youth organization of the Communist Party (see Komsomol ).