United Left and Peasants
United Left and Peasants | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Stanislav Nikolaenko[1] |
| Founded | December 2011 |
| Colours | Red, Blue, Yellow |
| Website | |
| www.livi.org.ua Template:Uk icon | |
United Left and Peasants (Ukrainian: Об'єднані ліві і селяни) is a left wing political party in Ukraine that was formed after several parties merged in December 2011.[1]
History
The first plans on unification involved 11 parties, the most noticeable of these being Socialist Party of Ukraine, but the council of Socialist Party of Ukraine refused the merge (and in December 2011 5 small parties merged with Socialist Party of Ukraine).[2][3][4] In December 2011 the parties Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party, People Power, Justice Party, Rural Revival Party and All-Ukrainian Patriotic Union merged into the new party United Left and Peasants.[1] The most noticeable new party member was former Minister in the second Tymoshenko Government Yosyp Vynskyi.[2]
The party aimed in December 2011 to win at least five percent of the vote in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[2] But the party did not take part in the nationwide proportional party-list system;[5] instead it was decided in August 2012 that nine members of the party would try to win a seat in nine of the 225 local single-member districts.[6] Eventually in total, 14 members of the party participated in the elections, however no one won in their district.[7][8][9][10][11] The best result had leader of the party Nikolaenko who got third place in electoral district 185 with 16.18% (14 808 of popular votes).[8][12] And thus the party won no seat in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament).[9]
References
- ^ a b c Template:Uk icon Ніколаєнко очолив "об'єднаних лівих", Ukrayinska Pravda (18 December 2011)
- ^ a b c Template:Uk icon Соцпартії не сподобалася назва "Об'єднані ліві і селяни", Gazeta.ua (16 December 2011)
- ^ Template:Uk icon Партія Мороза "проковтнула" п'ять партій, Ukrayinska Pravda (18 December 2011)
- ^ Template:Uk icon Мороз і Ніколаєнко не можуть домовитися про єдину партію, Ukrayinska Pravda (16 December 2011)
- ^ Template:Uk icon Information on the registration of electoral lists of candidates, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
- ^ Template:Uk icon Центральна виборча комісія зареєструвала представників партії кандидатами в народні депутати України The Central Election Commission registered members of the party candidates for deputies Ukraine, Parties official website (10 August 2012)
- ^ Template:Uk icon Proportional votes & Constituency seats & Single-mandate constituency № 2, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
- ^ a b Template:Uk icon Party's election results, Partis official website
- ^ a b Results of the vote count, Kyiv Post (9 November 2012)
- ^ Template:Uk icon Candidates, RBC Ukraine
- ^ Party of Regions gets 185 seats in Ukrainian parliament, Batkivschyna 101 - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (12 November 2012)
- ^ Template:Uk icon Results in 185 electoral district, Central Election Committee (31 October 2012)