People's Self-Defense Political Party

People's Self-Defense Political Party
Політична партія Народна Самооборона
Leader Yuriy Lutsenko[1]
Founded February 6, 1999 (1999-02-06)[2]
Dissolved Process started late December 2011[3][4]
Merged into All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland"[3]
Headquarters 10a Lesya Ukrainka Boulevard in Kiev[5]
International affiliation None
Official colours Red
Website
http://www.nso.org.ua
Politics of Ukraine
Political parties
Elections

People's Self-Defense Political Party (Ukrainian: Політична партія Народна Самооборона) is a political party in Ukraine. The party was formally named (till April 2010[5]) Forward, Ukraine![6] (Ukrainian: Вперед, Україно!; Vpered, Ukrajino!). In December 2011 the party announced it will be merged into All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland".[3][7][8]

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History

Forward, Ukraine!

The Forward, Ukraine! Party was registered by the Justice Ministry on May 13, 1999.[5][9]

At the 2002 elections, the party was part of the Viktor Yushchenko Bloc Our Ukraine.[9]

At the 2006 elections it decided to participate alone gathering only 6,934 votes (0.02%).[9]

At the 2007 elections, the party joined Viktor's Yushchenko Bloc once more within the Yuriy Lutsenko's People's Self-Defense. The party was part of the Our Ukraine alliance,[9] that won 72 out of 450 seats.

In an interview with the Silski Visti (Village News) newspaper on 29 January 2009 interior minister Yuriy Lutsenko declared that Civil Movement "People's Self-Defense" as an insurgent, protesting, and not very structured civil movement has ceased to exist". Lutsenko also said he was planning to direct the organisational changes of Forward, Ukraine!.[10]

The party supported Yulia Tymoshenko as presidential candidate in the Ukrainian presidential election, 2010.[11] The party did not support the dismissal of the second Tymoshenko Government.[12][13]

People's Self-Defense Political Party

At the ninth congress of the Forward, Ukraine! Party on February 26, 2010 the decision was taken to rename the party.[5] Justice Minister Oleksandr Lavrynovych signed a relevant decree April 20, 2010.[5]

On August 4, 2010 Yuriy Lutsenko declared that the party would participate in the 2010 local elections in collaboration with All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" on joined lists.[14] But eventually the party did independently participate in the election.[15][16] Now with much success, the party won no representatives in Oblast Councils (regional parliaments); its biggest success was winning seats in the city council of several towns in the Lviv Oblast.[15][16][17]

The party announced it will be merged into All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" in December 2011.[7][8] This process started late December 2011.[3][4]

See also

References

  1. ^ Prosecutor's office refuses to release Lutsenko on bail, says People's Self-Defense, Kyiv Post (March 1, 2011)
  2. ^ Юрий Луценко меняет вывеску, Kommersant (30 January 2009) (in Russian)
  3. ^ a b c d Turchynov: Batkivschyna, People's Self-Defense start unification (updated), Kyiv Post (28 December 2011)
  4. ^ a b Tymoshenko, Lutsenko aware of their parties' unification, Kyiv Post (29 December 2011)
  5. ^ a b c d e Forward, Ukraine! Party changes name to People's Self-Defense, Kyiv Post (April 21, 2010)
  6. ^ Party's name was sometimes translated as Go Ahead Ukraine!
  7. ^ a b (Ukrainian) Партії Тимошенко і Луценка об’єднаються у середу?, Ukrayinska Pravda (16 December 2011)
  8. ^ a b (Ukrainian) Батьківщина та Народна самооборона завтра оголосять про злиття, UNIAN (16 December 2011)
  9. ^ a b c d (Ukrainian) Політична партія „Народна Самооборона“, Database DATA
  10. ^ Interior minister planning to set up full-fledged political force, Interfax-Ukraine (29-01-2009)
  11. ^ Interior Minister takes short leave, urges voters to support Tymoshenko, Kyiv Post (December 11, 2009)
  12. ^ Kyrylenko: For Ukraine! group of deputies not to vote for government's dismissal, Kyiv Post (March 3, 2010)
  13. ^ For Ukraine! group of deputies not in coalition talks, Kyiv Post (February 25)
  14. ^ (Ukrainian) «НС» на місцевих виборах об’єднається із «Батьківщиною», Party's official website (August 4, 2010)
  15. ^ a b Підрозділи МР, Official website of Truskavets
  16. ^ a b (Ukrainian) Львівська «НС»: перші перемоги, Party's official website (November 2, 2010)
  17. ^ (Ukrainian) Results of the elections, preliminary data, on interactive maps by Ukrayinska Pravda (November 8, 2010)

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Notes
In the Verkhovna Rada 20 deputies are member of Reforms for the Future and 26 are not members of any faction.