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Socialist Party of Ukraine
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| Party name | Соціалістична партія України |
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| Leadership | Oleksander Moroz |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Political Ideology | Socialism |
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| Website | Socialist Party of Ukraine |
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The Socialist Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Sotsialistychna Partiya Ukrainy) is a Socialist political party in Ukraine. It is one of the oldest parties, (registered in late 1991, as Communist Party was disbanded). Initially a party with a quasi-Communist orientation, the SPU has developed into a left-wing party of the European sense. At the parliamentary elections on 30 March 2002, the party won 6.9% of the popular vote, and 24 out of 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada. Its candidate for the 1999 presidential elections, Oleksander Moroz, came third, with 11.3% of the vote in the first round. Oleksander Moroz also participated in the 2004 presidential elections; he again came in third place, though receiving only 5% of the vote, and subsequently transferred his support to Viktor Yuschenko for the ultimately disputed run-off ballot.
After the parliamentary elections on 26 March 2006, Yulia Tymoshenko suggested forming a government coalition involving the Our Ukraine bloc, her Yulia Tymoshenko bloc and the Socialists, but after signing a coalition agreement (after 3 months of negotiation) with those parties the Socialists signed another coalition agreement with Party of Regions and Communist Party after the election of Oleksander Moroz as Chairman of parliament. The Socialist Party received 5.67% of the vote, a slight decline from its performance in 2002, but gained 9 seats and now has 33 seats in Parliament.
- (Ukrainian) Official website
Parties: Party of Regions (186) • All-Ukrainian Union Fatherland • Ukrainian Social Democratic Party • People's Union "Our Ukraine" • Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs • People's Movement • Christian Democratic Union • Ukrainian Republican Party Assembly • Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists • Socialist Party (33) Communist Party (21) • Progressive Socialist Party • Rus'-Ukrainian Union • People's Party • Party of All-Ukrainian Union of the Left "Justice" • Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party • Party of Free Peasants and Entrepreneurs • Political Party Cathedral Ukraine Ukrainian People's Party • Viche • Pora • Reforms and Order Party United Social Democratic Party • Republican Party • Women for the Future • All-Ukrainian Union Center • Civil Movement "People's Self-Defense"
Political Blocs: Yulia Tymoshenko Electoral Bloc (129) • Our Ukraine (81) • People's Opposition Bloc of N. Vitrenko • Lytvyn's People's Bloc • Opposition Bloc "Ne Tak"
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