Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine

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Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine Prohresivna Sotsjalistychna Partiya Ukrayiny




Leader	Nataliya Vitrenko

Founded	1995
Headquarters

Political Ideology	Left-wing populism & pro-Russia
Political Position	Far Left
International Affiliation	none
Colours	Red

Website	[1]

See also	Politics of Ukraine Political parties Elections in Ukraine

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The Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (Prohresivna Sotsjalistychna Partiya Ukrayiny/Progressivnaya Sotsialističeskaja Partiya Ukrajiny, Прогресивна соціалістична партія України) is a political party in Ukraine, created by Nataliya Vitrenko a flamboyant former member of Socialist Party of Ukraine in 1995. Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine is a left-wing party that supports integration with Russia and Belarus as an alternative to the EU. PSPU traditionally campaigns on an anti-NATO, anti-IMF and pro-Russian platform. During the 1998 parliamentary elections the party won 4 % of the vote, and its candidate for the 1999 presidential elections, Nataliya Vitrenko, came 4th, with 10.97% of the vote in the first round.

At the legislative elections, 30 March 2002, the party established the Nataliya Vitrenko Bloc alliance, including the Partija Osvitjan Ukrajiny. It won 3.22% of the votes, little short of passing the 4% threshold needed to enter the Verkhovna Rada. PSPU was a vocal opponent of President Leonid Kuchma but supported Viktor Yanukovych, Ukrainian prime minister since 2002, during the 2004 elections. After the Orange Revolution of 2004, the party joined the opposition to new president Viktor Yushchenko in a coalition with the "Derzhava" (State) party led by former Ukrainian prosecutor Gennady Vasilyev. In the March 2006 parliamentary elections, the party again failed to gain any seats in Parliament, participating as People's Opposition Bloc of Natalia Vitrenko. At the 2007 parliamentary elections the party failed once more to enter the parliament.

[edit] External links

(Russian)/(English) Official party web site
(Russian) "People's Opposition" pro-Vitrenko site

v • d • e Political parties in Ukraine

Parliamentary blocs and parties	Party of Regions (175) Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (156) (All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" • Reforms and Order Party • Ukrainian Social Democratic Party) Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (72) (People's Union "Our Ukraine" • Forward, Ukraine! • People's Movement of Ukraine • Ukrainian People's Party • Ukrainian Republican Party Assembly • Christian Democratic Union • European Party of Ukraine • PORA • Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists • Motherland Defenders Party) Communist Party of Ukraine (27) Lytvyn Bloc (20) (People's Party • Labour Party of Ukraine)

Extra-parliamentary blocs and parties	Socialist Party of Ukraine People's Opposition Bloc of Natalia Vitrenko (Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine • Rus'-Ukrainian Union) Ukrainian Regional Asset (Popular Democratic Party • Democratic Party of Ukraine • Republican Christian Party) Opposition Bloc "Ne Tak" (Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) • Republican Party of Ukraine • Women for the Future • All-Ukrainian Union "Center") Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch (Party of Free Peasants and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine • Political Party "Cathedral Ukraine") Bloc of the Party of Pensioners of Ukraine (Party of Pensioners of Ukraine • Party of Protection of Pensioners of Ukraine) KUCHMA Electoral Bloc of Political Parties (Party "Union" • All-Ukrainian Union "Center") Other parties: Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs • Party of Greens of Ukraine • Viche • All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom"

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