Communist Party of Ukraine
| Communist Party of Ukraine Комуністична партія України |
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| First Secretary | Petro Symonenko |
| Second Secretary | Igor Alekseyev |
| Founded | June 19, 1993 |
| Ideology | Pro-Russia, Communism, Marxism-Leninism |
| International affiliation | Union of Communist Parties - Communist Party of the Soviet Union (UCP-CPSU) |
| Official colours | Red |
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The Communist Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Комуністична партія України, Komunistychna Partiya Ukrayiny, or KPU) is a political party in Ukraine, currently led by Petro Symonenko.
The party fights the Ukrainian national self-determination by identifying any Ukrainian national parties as the National-Fascist ones (Press Service of KPU on October 14, 2011 "Communists call to strictly prevent any appearance of national-fascism in Ukraine" ("Коммунисты призывают жестко пресекать любые проявления национал-фашизма в Украине"), the Second Secretary of the Central Committee of KPU, Igor Alekseyev).
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[edit] Party's electoral results
At the parliamentary elections on 29 March 1998, the party gained 24.65%[2] of the vote and 123 seats, becoming the largest party in Parliament. At the parliamentary elections on 30 March 2002, the party won 19.98%[2] of the popular vote and 66 out of 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada. Since then the party has lost much support, particularly after the Orange Revolution. In the 2006 parliamentary election the party won 3.66% and 21 seats.[2]
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In the parliamentary elections on 30 September 2007, the party won 5.39%[2] of the popular vote and 27 out of 450 seats.
The party participated in the 2010 presidential election as part of the Election bloc of left and central left political forces.[3]
On March 11, 2010 together with Bloc Lytvyn and Party of Regions the party joined the first Azarov Government[4]
A May 2010 poll by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology showed that the party had the greatest support among retirees (7%) and virtually no support among young people (in the 18-29 and 30-44 age groups), especially in western Ukraine.[5]
In the 2010 local elections the party scored between 5% and 12% of the votes in all Ukrainian Oblasts except in Western Ukraine and Kiev Oblast where they almost had no voters.[6]
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[edit] Recent issue stances
- Russian be given the status of a second official language in Ukraine[7]
- "Fight against the "robbery of the Ukrainian people" by oligarchic clans"[7]
- Nationalization of strategic companies[7]
- Introduction of a ban on the sale of agricultural land[7]
- Payments for utilities should not account for more than 10% of the income of Ukrainian families[7]
- "Rehabilitation of collaborators with fascism and leaders of nationalist movements be stopped"[7]
- Ukraine should join the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia[7]
[edit] See also
- Ukrainian Communist Party
- Borotbists
- Ukrainian Socialist-Revolutionary Party (Ukrainian SRs)
- Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed) - the split off
- Communist Party of Workers and Peasants - the split off
[edit] References
- ^ (Ukrainian) Депутатські фракції, Verkhovna Rada
- ^ a b c d (Ukrainian) Комуністична партія України, Database DATA
- ^ Bloc of left and center-left forces to nominate CPU Leader for Ukraine's president, Interfax-Ukraine (October 3, 2009)
- ^ Ukrainian parliament creates new coalition, Kyiv Post (March 11, 2010)
- ^ Poll: Political forces of Tigipko, Yatseniuk, Communist Party in Top 5 of April rating of parties, Kyiv Post (May 12, 2010)
- ^ (Ukrainian) Results of the elections, preliminary data, on interactive maps by Ukrayinska Pravda (8 November 2010)
- ^ a b c d e f g Communists call for halt to cooperation with IMF, Kyiv Post (7 November 2011)
[edit] External links
- (Ukrainian) (Russian) Official website
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