Party of Greens of Ukraine

The Party of Greens of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Партія зелених України, romanized: Partiia zelenykh Ukrayiny, PZU) is a Ukrainian green political party founded in 1990[4] by Yuriy Shcherbak and registered in May 1991.[5]

Not to be confused with Greens (Ukraine).

Party of Greens of Ukraine
Партія зелених України
LeaderTetyana Bodun
Founded24 May 1991 (1991-05-24) (registered)
HeadquartersKyiv
Membership28,000[1]
IdeologyGreen politics[2]
Political positionCentre-left
European affiliationEuropean Green Party
International affiliationGlobal Greens
Verkhovna Rada
0 / 450
Regional councils
0 / 1,804
Local councils[3]
36 / 158,399
Website
www.greenparty.ua
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The party is a successor of the Green World Association (founded December 1987[6]) and under that name participated in the Ukrainian parliamentary elections of 1990 as part of the Democratic Bloc.[4] The Green World Association quickly transformed itself into the Party of Greens of Ukraine.

After being electorally successful in the late 20th century, the party became nationally electorally marginal but representatives of the party are present in regional and local governing bodies.[7]

Overview

The party's main priorities are the alteration of anti-ecological attitudes in the economic system, the reconstruction of the social system, and the protection of human rights.[7]

The Party has been a member of the European Green Party since January 1994.[7]

The registration certificate of the similarly-named Green Party of Ukraine was cancelled in November 2011 because it had not nominated a candidate in an election since the parliamentary elections of 1998.[8]

Electoral history

In the 1998 parliamentary election, the Ukrainian Greens received 5.5%[5] of the vote and 19 seats[7] in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament). According to historian Andrew Wilson, during this period the party was more of a sanctuary for oligarchs than a legitimate green party, as oligarchs dominated the party's election list.[9]

The 1998 success wasn't repeated in the 2002 election, in which final poll results had predicted that the party would receive between 4% and 5% of the total vote.[10] However, the party fell below expectations and earned a mere 1.3% of the total vote, losing all its seats.[5] In the 2006 parliamentary elections and the 2007 parliamentary elections, the party received 0.54% and 0.40% respectively and failed to earn seats in parliament both times.[5]

The party participated in the 2012 parliamentary elections,[11] in which it won 0.35% of the national vote and none of the fifteen constituencies in which it had competed[12] and thus failed to win parliamentary representation.[13] The party also participated in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, but received 0.24%, which once again was not enough to gain parliamentary representation.[14] In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party gained 0.66% of the national vote and no parliamentary seats, with the party also failing to win a constituency seat.[15]

In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections, the party gained 24 deputies (0.06% of all available mandates).[16]

Election results

Verkhovna Rada
Election Popular vote Percentage Overall seats Change Outcome
1990 Democratic Bloc[lower-alpha 1]
125 / 450
 — Opposition
1994 71,946 0.3
0 / 450
 New Extra-parliamentary
1998 1,444,264 5.44
19 / 450
 Increase 19 Minority support
2002 338,252 1.31
0 / 450
 Decrease 19 Extra-parliamentary
2006 137,858 0.54
0 / 450
 Steady 0 Extra-parliamentary
2007 94,505 0.41
0 / 450
 Steady 0 Extra-parliamentary
2012 70,316 0.35
0 / 450
 Steady 0 Extra-parliamentary
2014 39,636 0.25
0 / 450
 Steady 0 Extra-parliamentary
2019 96,659 0.66
0 / 450
 Steady 0 Extra-parliamentary

Notable people

See also

Notes
  1. As a member of the "Narodna Rada" group

References
  1. Партия Зеленых Украины
  2. Nordsieck, Wolfram (2002). "Ukraine". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 26 October 2004.
  3. WWW ІАС "Місцеві вибори" Archived 21 November 2015 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Serhy Yekelchyk Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation, Oxford University Press (2007), ISBN 978-0-19-530546-3, page 187
  5. (in Ukrainian) Databases ASD: Political parties in Ukraine
  6. Serhy Yekelchyk '"Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation, Oxford University Press (2007), ISBN 978-0-19-530546-3, page 181
  7. Official party site Archived 20 May 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  8. Lavrynovych: Court cancels registration certificates of five Ukrainian parties, Kyiv Post (29 November 2011)
  9. Wilson, Andrew (1 January 2005). Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-09545-6.
  10. Ukraine's election frontrunners, BBC News (28 March 2002)
  11. Ukrainian Green Party to participate in 2012 parliamentary elections, Kyiv Post (19 December 2011)
  12. (in Ukrainian) Candidates, RBC Ukraine
  13. (in Ukrainian) Proportional votes Archived 30 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine & Constituency seats Archived 5 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  14. "Central Election Commission – 2012–2013". cvk.gov.ua. Retrieved 15 October 2016.
  15. CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, Ukrinform (26 July 2019)
    (in Russian) Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019, Ukrayinska Pravda (21 July 2019)
  16. "Results of the 2020 Ukrainian local elections on the official web-server of the". Central Election Commission of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 12 January 2021.
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