Socialist Party of Ukraine
The Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU ) is a left-wing political party in Ukraine.
History
The SPU is one of the oldest parties in the independent Ukraine and was registered in 1991. After the banning of the Communist Party of Ukraine ( KPU ), the SPU was established, which was first rather orthodox Marxist. Chairman of the party since 1991 Olexandr Moroz. Moros was the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party in the elections of 1994, 1999 and 2004, reaching 13.04%, 11.29% and 5.81 % of the vote respectively in third place. After the 2004 presidential election, he supported the later President Viktor Yushchenko. On July 6, 2006 Moros, with the support of the Party of Regions, the Socialist Party and the Communist Group as President of the Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, elected.
After the parliamentary elections on 26 March 2006, the SPU negotiated first with the choice blocks Nasha Ukraine Corporation and Blok Juliji Tymoshenko on forming a coalition government, but finally 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 failed with 2.86 % of votes short of the three- percent threshold. The poor performance of the party plunged into a deep crisis. Demands within the party after a withdrawal Olexandr Moroz ' but were ultimately rejected. The SPU put, as well as four other parties, irregularities occurred in the Supreme Court of Ukraine complaint against the election process and claimed that it was in the counting. The official announcement of the final result was then for the time being prohibited. Since October 21, the court dealt with the investigation into the allegations. The complaint of the SPU was finally rejected, and paved the way for the satisfaction of the official final result.
Olexandr Moroz was on the XIII. Congress of the SPU in November 2007 re- elected chairman. The only rival candidate, Stanislaw Nikolayenko, withdrew his candidacy shortly before the election. In July 2010, the then Ukrainian Economy Minister Vasyl Zuschko, considered confidant of Viktor Yanukovych was elected President of the SPU, Zuschko held this position until August 2001. In the parliamentary elections in 2012, the SPU reached only 0.45 % of the votes and missed so much a place in the Verkhovna Rada.
Political orientation and current importance
The SPU has positioned itself politically between the revived Communist Party and the competing social democratic parties of Ukraine. 2003, the party had 70,000 members. Since then, their political significance has declined significantly by more lost elections and the failure in the 2007 parliamentary elections.
In February 2008 it was announced that the SPU - well, given consistently poor poll numbers - is considering a union with other parties left of center. The focus here was on the United Socialist Party of Ukraine. An association with this party but was later discarded. In the early elections to the Kyiv City Parliament, as well as to the office of mayor, the SPU reached 0.29 % of votes. The candidate for mayor Mykola Danylin supported 0.15% of the voters. Given the poor election results declared Danylin, who was also chairman of the Kyiv City Association of SPU, his resignation from the party, which he described as " dead " and " no more than a business project of Moros and Co. " Given the possibility of renewed early elections to the Verkhovna Rada called Olexandr Moroz in September 2008 the Communist Party of Ukraine to form a left electoral alliance on.
See also: List of parties to the Ukraine
Personalities
- Olexandr Moroz, longtime chairman and several Presidential Candidate
- Vasyl Zuschko temporarily Chairman of the SPU and former Ukrainian Interior Minister