Socialist Party of Ukraine

Infobox Ukrainian Political Party
party_name = Socialist Party of Ukraine
Соціалістична партія України
party_articletitle = Socialist Party of Ukraine
party_
leader = Oleksander Moroz
foundation = 1991
ideology = Socialism, Parliamentarism
position = Left-wing
international = "none"
colours = Violet
headquarters =
website = [http://www.spu.org.ua/ Socialist Party of Ukraine] 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 the 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.

=2006 parliamentary election=

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 had 33 seats in Parliament.

=2007 parliamentary election=

At the 2007 parliamentary elections the party's vote share collapsed. The Socialist Party of Ukraine failed to secure parliamentary representation having received only 2.86% of the total national vote (0.14% short of the required minimum 3% representation threshold).

Electoral results

ee also

*Politics of Ukraine
*List of political parties in Ukraine

External links

* [http://www.spu.in.ua/ Official website]