Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine

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The Progressive Socialist Party was described to have a "clearly leftist" platform.[5] Its campaign slogan was "We shall build a Soviet and Socialist Ukraine!". The party was considered Russophile, and campaigned for a "strategic partnership" of Ukraine with Russia and Belarus, while strongly rejecting the prospect of cooperating with either the European Union or NATO. The party was least popular in Western regions, but it had considerable support in South Ukraine.[5]

History

The party was created by Nataliya Vitrenko, a then dissident member of the Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) in April 1996.[6] She led a group of more radical SPU members who opposed what they regarded as revisionist tendencies in the Socialist Party. In October 1995 they had left that party.[6]

The Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine is a party that supports the Eurasian Economic Union as an alternative to the EU and uses left-wing rhetoric. PSPU traditionally campaigns on an anti-NATO, anti-IMF and pro-Russian platform. During the 1998 parliamentary elections the party won 4.04% of the vote and 16 seats.[7][8] The party's candidate for the 1999 presidential elections, Nataliya Vitrenko, came 4th, with 10.97% of the vote in the first round.[9]

The party's parliamentary faction was dissolved in February 2000.[10]

At the legislative elections on 30 March 2002, the party established the Nataliya Vitrenko Bloc alliance, including the Party of Educators of Ukraine (Template:Langx).[11] It won 3.22%[7] of the votes, little short of passing the 4% threshold needed to enter the Verkhovna Rada.[12] 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 winning 2,93%.[7] At the 2007 parliamentary elections the party failed once more to enter the parliament, its result dropped to 1,32%.[7]

In the run-up to the 2010 presidential election the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine refused to join the Bloc of Left and Center-left Forces[13] since it did not want to be in the same election bloc as the Socialist Party of Ukraine.[14] Instead the party tried to nominate Natalia Vitrenko again as their candidate in that election[15] but the Central Election Commission of Ukraine refused to register her for failure to pay the required 2.5 million hryvnya nomination deposit.[16] Eventually the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine supported Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych in the runoff of the 2010 presidential election.[17]

During the 2010 Ukrainian local elections, the party only won three representatives in the Sevastopol municipality.[18]

The party did not participate in the 2012 parliamentary elections.[19]

In 2011, the PSPU decided to join the People's Front for Russia.[20]

The party did not participate in the 2014 parliamentary elections.[21]

The party took part in the October 2015 Ukrainian local elections as part of the umbrella party Left Opposition.[22]

In the 2020 local elections the party did not nominate candidates for deputies at all except for a candidate for mayor of Romny.[23]

On 20 March 2022, the PSPU was one of several political parties suspended by the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, along with Derzhava, Left Opposition, Nashi, Opposition Bloc, Opposition Platform — For Life, Party of Shariy, Socialist Party of Ukraine, Union of Left Forces, and the Volodymyr Saldo Block.[24]

In June 2022 various court proceedings tried to ban the parties suspended on 20 March 2022.[25][26] The Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine was one of two parties that actively opposed its banning.[25][26] (The other party was Opposition Platform — For Life.[26]) On 27 September 2022, the final appeal against the party's ban was dismissed by the Supreme Court of Ukraine, meaning that the party was fully banned in Ukraine.[1]

Election results

Presidential elections

Presidency of Ukraine
Election year Candidate First round Second round
No. of
overall votes 		% of
overall vote 		No. of
overall votes 		% of
overall vote
1999 Nataliya Vitrenko 2,886,972 10.97
2004 Nataliya Vitrenko 429,794 1.53

Rada electoral results

Verkhovna Rada
(year links to election page)
Year Votes % Seats
1998
1,075,118
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4.05
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17
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2002
836,198
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3.23
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0
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2006
743,704
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2.93
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0
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2007
309,008
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1.33
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0
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Rada election results maps

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Ideology

The party favored Ukraine's full-scale entry in the Eurasian Economic Community (including its Customs Union); the protection of the non-aligned status of Ukraine; abolition of NATO exercises in Ukraine; asserting the Russian language status as an official language beside Ukrainian; the annulment of former President Viktor Yushchenko's decrees on awarding the title of Hero of Ukraine to Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych.[17]

The Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine is considered a neo-communist party, defined as an East European socialist party that distances itself from reformist post-communist parties. The party supports the economic and social principles of communism while criticising the capitalist transition, post-Soviet democratisation and European integration.[27]

The party is considered to represent a distinctive, radical form of left-wing, socialist populism. The party describes itself as the only "true Marxist" party in Ukraine and campaigns on a strongly nostalgic, anti-Western platform. It accuses the IMF of colonizing Ukraine and argues for expulsion of all western advisers from Ukraine.[28] The party's ideological discourse is strongly anti-capitalism, anti-market and also anti-NATO.[29]

PSPU considers the economic transformation of Ukraine into a capitalist economy to be a social regression. The party calls for state ownership of the means of production and an economy based on social justice, described as the elimination of unemployment and the distribution of material goods to their direct creators. The party also calls for "a society in which the free development of each is a condition for the free development of all, committing itself to establishing workers' democracy in enterprises, guaranteeing state ownership of basic industries and halting the privatisation process and halting the decline of kolkhozes and sovkhozes".[2]

The party had close ties with the Eurasian Youth Union and its leader Aleksandr Dugin.[4]

Notes

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References

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  1. ↑ a b Template:In lang The Supreme Court finally banned Natalia Vitrenko's party, Chesno (27 September 2022)
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  6. ↑ a b Template:In lang УКРАЇНА ПАРТІЙНА. ЧАСТИНА V. СОЦІАЛІСТИЧНА ПАРТІЯ УКРАЇНИ SOCIALIST PARTY OF UKRAINE, ZN.UA (7 March 2002)
  7. ↑ a b c d Template:In lang Прогресивна соціалістична партія України, Databases ASD
  8. ↑ Understanding Ukrainian Politics: Power, Politics, and Institutional Design by Paul D'Anieri, M.E. Sharpe, 2006, Template:ISBN, page 161
  9. ↑ Election watch Ukraine (Presidential), CNN (2003)
  10. ↑ State-Building: A Comparative Study of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia by Verena Fritz, Central European University Press, 2008, Template:ISBN (page 353)
  11. ↑ Template:In lang Партія "Єдина Україна", Databases ASD
  12. ↑ Ukraine at the Crossroads: Economic Reforms in International Perspective by Axel Siedenberg (Editor), Lutz Hoffmann, Physica-Verlag Heidelberg, 1999, Template:ISBN/Template:ISBN (page 184)
  13. ↑ Communists say leftist bloc will call for referendum on NATO and Russian language status, Kyiv Post (24 September 2009)
  14. ↑ Template:In lang Лівий блок як спосіб втриматися у великій політиці, BBC World Service (18 August 2009)
  15. ↑ CEC registers two more candidates for Ukraine's president, Interfax-Ukraine (6 November 2009)
  16. ↑ Template:In lang Украина обречена либо на распад, либо на революцию. Для украинской власти Конституция Украины – туалетная бумажка. Заявление Лидера ПСПУ Наталии Витренко, Official website of Natalia Vitrenko (11 November 2009)
  17. ↑ a b Progressive Socialists reelect Vitrenko as party leader, Kyiv Post (27 June 2010)
  18. ↑ Template:In lang Results of the elections, preliminary data, on interactive maps by Ukrayinska Pravda (8 November 2010)
  19. ↑ Template:In lang Results of voting in single constituencies in 2012 & Nationwide list, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
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  21. ↑ Alphabetical Index of parties in 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  22. ↑ Template:In lang The communists go to the polls in the "Left Opposition" – the leader of the Communist Party, RIA Novosti Ukraine (13 August 2015)
    Five Ukrainian parties, 13 NGOs unite into Left Opposition, Interfax-Ukraine (15 June 2015)
  23. ↑ Template:In lang Why did the Supreme Court ban Vitrenko's party?, Chesno (29 September 2022)
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  25. ↑ a b Template:In lang The court banned the activities of the parties "Bloc of Volodymyr Saldo" and "Derzhava" – Chesno, Template:Ill (14 June 2022)
  26. ↑ a b c Template:In lang The court banned OPZZh, Ukrayinska Pravda (20 June 2022)
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External links

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