Socialist Party – Peasant Party

Electoral bloc of the Socialist Party of Ukraine and the Peasant Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Виборчий блок Соціалістичної партії України та Селянської партії України; Vyborchyi blok Sotsialistychnoyi partiyi Ukrayiny ta Selyanskoyi partiyi Ukrayiny) was the first political alliance and an electoral bloc in Ukraine that managed to win parliamentary seats on party list. The alliance was founded in November 1997 to participate in the 1998 parliamentary election and consisted out of the Socialist Party of Ukraine and the Peasant Party of Ukraine.

Socialist Party – Peasant Party

Виборчий блок Соціалістичної партії України та Селянської партії України
LeaderOleksandr Moroz[1]
FoundedNovember 1, 1997 (1997-11-01)
HeadquartersKyiv, Ukraine

1998 parliamentary election

Top-10 party list: Oleksandr Moroz (Socialist), Serhiy Dovhan (Peasant), Viktor Suslov (unaffiliated), Ivan Chyzh (Socialist), Ivan Bokyi (unaffiliated), Stanislav Nikolayenko (Socialist), Oleksandr Tkachenko (Peasant), Kostiantyn Dovhan (Peasant), Yosyp Vinskyi (Socialist), Nina Markovska (Socialist).

Party PR Constituency Total
seats
+/–
Votes % Seats Votes % Seats
Socialist Party – Peasant Party2,273,7888.8291,067,2674.2635New
Socialist Party of Ukraine14317+3
Peasant Party of Ukraine10212-7
unaffiliated516-

Left Center

In parliament the alliance created a faction "Left Center".

On October 17, 2000 on proposition of the Left Center representative, several members of parliament (Verkhovna Rada) left in protest against the closing of publishing of "Peasant Herald".[2]

On July 3, 2001 the faction requested on urgent creation of provisional parliamentary commission in investigation of board governors of the Agrarian bank "Ukraine" that led to bankruptcy of that bank.[3]

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