People's Democratic Party (Ukraine)

The People's Democratic Party (Ukrainian: Народно-демократична партія; Narodno-Demokratychna Partiya NDP) is a political party that was established in Ukraine on February 24, 1996. It was registered with the Ministry of Justice on May 30, 1996. The party is russophone. For identification purposes the party often uses its abbreviation NDP.

People's Democratic Party

Народно-демократична партія
Russian nameНародно-демократическая партия
LeaderLyudmyla Suprun[1]
FoundedFebruary 24, 1996 (1996-02-24)
May 30, 1996 (registered)
Merger ofPDUV
TCU
USRC
HeadquartersKiev
NewspaperUkraine and World Today weekly
Youth wingPeople's Democratic League of youth
Women wingAction
Ecological wingAll-Ukrainian Ecological League
Membership (2012)185,000
IdeologySocial democracy[2]
Political positionCentre[3] to centre-left
National affiliationOur Choice - Leonid Kuchma!
For United Ukraine
We Know How
Ukrainian Regional Asset
ColoursGreen
Website
http://ndp.org.ua

History

The People's Democratic Party was established at its constituent congress in Kiev. The party was created through a merger of three political parties Party of Democratic Revival of Ukraine, Toiling Congress of Ukraine, Union of Support for Republic of Crimea, two public organizations Union of Students of Ukraine and the New Wave and two political clubs the New Ukraine and the Association of young Ukrainian politicians and political scientists. Anatoliy Matviyenko was elected party chairman.[4]

At the parliamentary elections of 1998 the party gained 5% of the votes and 28 seats in parliament. At the time of the election, the party's key member, Valeriy Pustovoitenko, was prime minister. Pustovoitenko became the party's leader in May 1999 until April 2006. In September 2001 into the party was merged the Interregional Bloc of Reforms (MBR).[5]

At the parliamentary elections in 2002, the party was part of the For United Ukraine alliance, the alliance won 11.77% of the popular vote and a total of 102 out of 450 seats in the Ukrainian Parliament.

At the parliamentary elections 2006 the NDP took part in the alliance Block of People's Democratic Parties but this alliance did not overcome the 3% threshold (winning only 0.49% of the votes) and therefore no seats. After taking responsibility for the defeat Valeriy Pustovoitenko resigned as leader of the party. In his place the party was led by Lyudmyla Suprun.

In the 2007 elections, the party failed again as part of the Ukrainian Regional Asset to win parliamentary representation. The current chairman of the NDP is still Lyudmyla Suprun.[1]

In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party competed in/for 9 constituencies (seats);[6] but it won in none and thus missed parliamentary representation.[7]

The party did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[8]

Election results
Supreme Council of Ukraine
Year Popular vote % of popular vote Overall seats won Seat change Government
1998 1,331,460 5.2%
28 / 450
 28 coalition government
2002 For United Ukraine bloc
17 / 450
 11 coalition government
2006 Block of People's Democratic Parties
0 / 450
 17 N/A
2007 Suprun bloc - URA
0 / 450
 N/A
2012 partial participation
0 / 450
 N/A

Party's Values

Person - Family - Prosperity - Ukraine

Associated organizations
  • Association of Deputies "Trust"
  • Cultural center "Ukraine Spiritual"

Chairpersons

References
  1. Official party website Archived 2009-06-03 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Nordsieck, Wolfram. "Ukraine". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 20 June 2004.
  3. Nordsieck, Wolfram. "Ukraine". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 5 December 2002.
  4. (in Russian)/(website has automatic Google Translate option) Small biography of Anatoliy Matviyenko, LIGA
  5. To PDP was added Interregional Bloc of Reforms. Ukrayinska Pravda. 9 September 2001
  6. (in Ukrainian) Candidates Archived 2013-06-24 at Archive.today, RBC Ukraine
  7. Party of Regions gets 185 seats in Ukrainian parliament, Batkivschyna 101 - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (12 November 2012)
  8. Alphabetical Index of parties in 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
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