People's Party (Ukraine)
| People's Party Народна Партія | |
|---|---|
.JPG) | |
| Leader | Volodymyr Lytvyn |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Ideology |
Agrarianism,[1] Centrism[1] |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Blue |
| Verkhovna Rada |
2 / 450 |
| Regions (2010) |
136 / 3,056 |
| Website | |
| narodna.org.ua | |
|
Politics of Ukraine Political parties Elections | |
The People's Party (Ukrainian: Народна Партія; Narodna Partiya) is a political party in Ukraine. It was previously named as the Agrarian Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Аграрна партія України).[3] The party is led by Volodymyr Lytvyn.[3] In September 2011 he claimed that his party was only surpassed in membership by the Party of Regions and Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko.[4]
The party won 2 seats in the Ukrainian parliament in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[5]
History
During the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1998 the party gained 3,68% of the popular vote,[3] the party won 2 (single-mandate constituency) seats.
At the parliamentary elections on 30 March 2002, the party was part of the For United Ukraine alliance.[3] At the parliamentary elections on 26 March 2006 the party was part of the electoral Lytvyn's People's Bloc, which won 2.44% of the popular vote and no seats.[3] In the parliamentary elections on 30 September 2007, the party was part of the Lytvyn Bloc alliance,[3] that won 20 out of 450 seats.
In November 2010 the Bloc of Lytvyn faction in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) was renamed People's Party faction.[6]
In the 2010 local elections the party won representative in 20 of the 24 regional parliaments, it did not win seats in the Supreme Council of Crimea.[7]
In August 2011 party leader Lytvyn stated that his People's Party will merge with fellow Ukrainian party Party of Regions.[8] Earlier that month Strong Ukraine had announced the same move.[4][9] But Mid-December 2011 Lytvyn stated that People's Party will participate in the 2012 parliamentary elections independently.[10] In these election the party did not run on the nationwide proportional party-list but it did win 2 constituencies (it had competed in 58 constituencies[11]), one won by Lytvyn and the other one by Serhiy Hrynyvetsky,[12] and thus parliamentary representation.[13] Hrynyvetsky joined the faction of Party of Regions in December 2012, while Lytvyn did not join any faction.[14]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Nordsieck, Wolfram, "Ukraine", Parties and Elections in Europe, retrieved 5 November 2012
- ↑ (Ukrainian) Results of elections, Central Election Commission
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 (Ukrainian) Народна Партія, Database DATA
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Regions Party and People's Party holding consultations on unification, Kyiv Post (September 29, 2011)
- ↑ Party of Regions gets 185 seats in Ukrainian parliament, Batkivschyna 101 - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (12 November 2012)
- ↑ Bloc of Lytvyn faction renamed, Kyiv Post (November 19, 2010)
- ↑ (Ukrainian) Results of the elections, preliminary data, on interactive maps by Ukrayinska Pravda (8 November 2010)
- ↑ Azarov: We welcome other parties joining Regions Party, Kyiv Post (August 23, 2011)
- ↑ Azarov: Regions Party teams up with Strong Ukraine, Kyiv Post (August 16, 2011)
- ↑ (Ukrainian) Литвин поведе Народну партію на вибори саму, Ukrayinska Pravda (12 December 2011)
- ↑ (Ukrainian) Candidates, RBC Ukraine
- ↑ Results of the vote count, Kyiv Post (9 November 2012)
- ↑ (Ukrainian) Proportional votes & Constituency seats, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
- ↑ (Ukrainian) National deputies of Ukraine, Verkhovna Rada