Oleksandr Moroz

Olexandr Moroz Olexandrowytsch (Ukrainian Олександр Олександрович Мороз, scientific transliteration Oleksandr Moroz Oleksandrovyč; * February 29, 1944 in Buda, Kiev Oblast ) is a Ukrainian politician. He was from 1991 to 2010 Chairman of the Socialist Party of Ukraine ( SPU) and was several times a deputy in the Verkhovna Rada, as well as their President.

Career

Moros comes from a large family from the village of Buda south of Kiev; his father was a carpenter, his mother Kolkhoz Woman. He graduated in 1965, the Academy of Agriculture as an engineer / mechanic from. After completing his military service in 1966 he taught until 1974 at the Technical School in Taraschtscha in the Department of mechanization. 1974 to 1976 he worked in various argrartechnischen holdings in 1976 as a senior engineer in Kiev Silhosptechnika ( Сільгосптехніка ). In the same year he also had a first party function in the Communist Party of Ukraine ( KPU ) holds.

By 1983, Moros studied at the Party School of the KPU, from which he graduated as a political scientist. In the following years he worked as a union secretary and in various party functions - mostly in rural areas of work - operate.

Since 1990 Olexandr Moroz was elected four times as a list candidate of his party in the Verkhovna Rada, in the years 1994 to 1998 as its chairman. 1994, 1999 and 2004, he participated as a candidate in the presidential elections in part and each came in third place, with 13.04 percent, 11.29 percent and 5.81 percent last in 2004. Between 1994 and 1996 he was also Vice-Chairman the Constitutional Commission.

Since August 3, 2004 Moros chairman of the civic association is the protection of the children of war ( Захист дітей війни ).

Moros was for many years a staunch opponent of President Leonid Kuchma; in 2000 he published tapes, the Kuchma aufzeigten alleged involvement in the murder of journalist Gongadze Heorhiy. He engaged constantly making the president the benefit of the Parliament to evade power. He was spokesman for the Citizens Committee for the Protection of the Constitution "Ukraine without Kuchma " 2001; In the same year he founded together with Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko, the Forum for National Salvation ( Форум національного порятунку ). During the protests after the presidential elections in 2004, where he had come back to third place in the first round, he was one of the main supporters of Yushchenko and the Orange Revolution.

After the parliamentary elections in 2006 in which no party had reached a working majority to Moros closed with his party SPU initially an alliance of the President's party, Our Ukraine and the Yulia Tymoshenko bloc ( BJUT ) to. However, after nearly four months, he got out of the negotiations; as one of the reasons for its rejection of the true pursued by Yushchenko plan of joining NATO Ukraine. Yushchenko struck after some hesitation his former opponent Viktor Yanukovych as prime minister before, which was confirmed by the Parliament on the following day.

In the 2007 parliamentary elections, the SPU failed due to the three- percent threshold, so that Moros lost his seat in parliament. Despite calls for his resignation, which were addressed shortly after the election defeat from the ranks of his party to him, chose the XIII. Congress of the SPU him in November 2007, again as party leader. In July 2010, the Ukrainian Economy Minister Vasyl Zuschko, a confidant of President Viktor Yanukovych was elected as the new Chairman of the SPU.

Works

  • Kudy jdemo? ( " Where are we going? " - Куди йдемо ... 1993? )
  • Wybir ( "Selection" - Вибір, 1996)
  • Tema dlya rosdumiw ( " topic for thought " - Тема для роздумів, 1996)
  • Doroha, s jakoji ne sijty ( "Street Corner " - Дорога, з якої не зійти, 1999)
  • Mixing witschnymy poljussamy ("Interim eternal Poland " - Між вічними полюсами, 1999)
  • Pro semlju, Konstituziju i ne tilky ( "On the earth, the Constitution and ... " - Про землю, Конституцію і не тільки, 2000)
  • Chronicles odnoho slotschynu ( "Chronicle of a crime " - Хроніка одного злочину, 2001)

Awards

  • " Hero of Labour "
  • Order " Yaroslav the Wise " (1998, rejected acceptance)
  • Grand Cross of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique 1998
Alexander Moroz (chess player) Tarashcha Vasyl Tsushko Order of Prince Henry Leonid Kravchuk Ivan Plyushch Oleksandr Tkachenko (politician) Arseniy Yatsenyuk Volodymyr Rybak
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