Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine
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The Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine (Prohresivna Sotsjalistychna Partiya Ukrayiny/Progressivnaya Sotsialističeskaja Partiya Ukrajiny, Прогресивна соціалістична партія України) is a political party in Ukraine, created by Nataliya Vitrenko a flamboyant former member of Socialist Party of Ukraine in 1995. Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine is a left-wing party that supports integration with Russia and Belarus as an alternative to EU. PSPU traditionally campaigns on anti-NATO, anti-IMF and pro-Russian platform. During 1998 parliamentary elections party won 4 % of the vote, and its candidate for the 1999 presidential elections, Nataliya Vitrenko, came 4th, with 10.97% of the vote in the first round.
At the legislative elections, 30 March 2002, the party established the Nataliya Vitrenko Bloc alliance, including the Partija Osvitjan Ukrajiny. It won 3.22% of the votes, little short of passing the 4% threshold needed to enter the Verkhovna Rada. 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.
[edit] External links
- (Russian)/(English) Official party web site
- (Russian) "People's Opposition" pro-Vitrenko site
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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
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"
