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Ukrainian Republican Party

Not to be confused with Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor".

The Ukrainian Republican Party (Ukrainian: Українська Республіканська партія; Ukrajinska Respublikanska Partija) was the first registered political party in Ukraine created on November 5, 1990[4] by the Ministry of Justice of UkrSSR.[5] URP was founded earlier that year in place of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group in April 1990. In April 2002 the party merged with the Ukrainian People's Party "Sobor" as the Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor".[6] It then reformed in 2006.

Ukrainian Republican Party
Українська Республіканська партія
LeaderLevko Lukyanenko
Founded5 November 1990
Dissolved21 April 2002
Preceded byUkrainian Helsinki Union
Merged intoUkrainian Republican Party "Sobor"
HeadquartersKyiv
IdeologyUkrainian nationalism[1]
National conservatism
Political positionRight-wing[1][a]
Website
http://urp1990.com.ua/
  1. ^ Other sources described them as either centre-right[2] or far-right.[3]

History

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November 1976 — Ukrainian community groups was established to promote the implementation of the Helsinki agreements. Almost all members of this Ukrainian Helsinki Group where subsequently repressed, four of them (V. Stus, Yu. Lytvyn, O. Tykhyi, V. Marchenko) died in Soviet camps (Gulag).

March 1988 — Ukrainian Helsinki Union (UKhS) was formed. Since 1989, UKhS has moved to open propaganda activity of promoting the independence of Ukraine.

April 29–30, 1990 — Ukrainian Republican Party (URP) was established in the place of the UKhS. The party was registered on November 5, 1990 by the Ministry of Justice of the Ukrainian SSR as the first political party in Ukraine.

A 1992 split in the party resulted in the creation of the rival Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party (UKRP) led by Stepan Khmara.[7]

In the 1994 parliamentary elections the URP core party obtained nine seats initially adding three more by the end of the year.

During the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party was part (together with Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists & Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party) of the Election Bloc "National Front"[4] (Ukrainian: Виборчий блок партій «Національний фронт») which won 2,71% of the national votes[4] and 6 (single-mandate constituency) seats.[8][9] In January 2001 the "National Front" parliamentary faction had grown to 17 deputies.[8]

After being part of the National Salvation Committee[10][11] the party became part of the Yulia Tymoshenko Electoral Bloc alliance during the Ukrainian 2002 parliamentary elections.[12][13] On April 21, 2002 the party merged with the Ukrainian People's Party "Sobor" as the Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor".[6]

In May 2006 Levko Lukyanenko tried to reestablish URP after URP Sobor switched to Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc from the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc; the new party became known as the URP of Lukyanenko and registered in 2006.[14][15][16]

Reformation

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The Ukrainian Republican Party (Ukrainian: Українська республіканська партія; Ukrajinska Respublikanska Partija) reregistered in December 2006[17][14][15] as Ukrainian Republican Party Lukyanenko (Ukrainian: Українська республіканська партія Лук’яненка).[17] The party was led by political veteran Levko Lukyanenko(1928-2018).[14][15] The party did not participate in the 2007 parliamentary election[17] as well as the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election nationwide proportional party-list system;[18] instead three members of the party tried to win a seat in three of the 225 local single-member districts.[19] None of the parties candidates did win.[20]

The party did participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election in 5 single-member districts; but again did not win seats.[21] The party has not taken part in national elections since 2012.[22]

The party occupies a few seats in local and provincial councils.[23] In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections the party gained 4 deputies (0.01% of all available mandates).[24]

References

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  1. ^ a b Andrew Wilson (1993). MODERN UKRAINIAN NATIONALISM: NATIONALIST POLITICAL PARTIES IN UKRAINE, 1988-1992 (PDF). p. 71. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 May 2020.
  2. ^ Henrik Bischof (1994). "DIE UKRAINE: ZEIT DER UNABHÄNGIGKEIT" (PDF). Studie zur Außenpolitik (in German) (64): 15.
  3. ^ Jens Rydgren (2018). The Oxford Handbook of the Radical Right. Oxford University Press. p. 610. ISBN 9780190274566.
  4. ^ a b c (in Ukrainian) Українська республіканська партія „Собор“, Database DATA
  5. ^ List of registered parties in Ukraine Archived 2012-08-05 at archive.today (in Ukrainian)
  6. ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Злилися УРП і "Собор": Матвієнко - голова партії, Лук'яненко - голова ради старійшин, Ukrayinska Pravda (April 21, 2002)
  7. ^ Virtual Politics - Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World, Andrew Wilson, Yale University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-300-09545-7 (page 31)
  8. ^ a b State-Building: A Comparative Study of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia by Verena Fritz, Central European University Press, 2008, ISBN 9637326995 (page 353)
  9. ^ (in Ukrainian) Results in consistencies, Central Election Commission of Ukraine (1998)
  10. ^ About Tymoshenko Archived 2009-09-26 at the Wayback Machine, Official website of Yulia Tymoshenko
  11. ^ Europa World Year Book 2, Routledge, 2004, ISBN 978-1-85743-255-8, page 4295
  12. ^ (in Ukrainian) Виборчий блок політичних партій "Виборчий блок Юлії Тимошенко", Central Election Commission of Ukraine (December 22, 2001)
  13. ^ (in Ukrainian) Вони – Блок Юлії Тимошенко, Ukrayinska Pravda (January 25, 2002)
  14. ^ a b c Lukyanenko was elected leader of Ukrainian Republican Party, Kyiv Post (November 25, 2010)
  15. ^ a b c (in Ukrainian) Левко Лук'яненко знову очолив партію, Ukrayinska Pravda (November 25, 2010)
  16. ^ (in Ukrainian) Українська республіканська партія, Database DATA
  17. ^ a b c (in Ukrainian) Українська республіканська партія, Database DATA
  18. ^ (in Ukrainian) Information on the registration of electoral lists of candidates, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  19. ^ "Одномандатний виборчий округ №115". zaxid.net (in Ukrainian). 29 August 2012.
    "Одномандатний виборчий округ №123". zaxid.net (in Ukrainian). 29 August 2012.
    "Одномандатний виборчий округ №125". zaxid.net (in Ukrainian). 29 August 2012.
  20. ^ Results of the vote count, Kyiv Post (9 November 2012)
  21. ^ Alphabetical Index of parties in 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  22. ^ "Електоральна пам'ять". ukr.vote.
  23. ^ (in Ukrainian) Results of the 2010 local elections preliminary data on interactive maps by Ukrayinska Pravda (November 8, 2010)
    (in Ukrainian) На довиборах в Івано-Франківську облраду перемогли "Батьківщина" і "Свобода", Ukrayinska Pravda (28 January 2013)
  24. ^ "Results of the 2020 Ukrainian local elections on the official web-server of the". Central Election Commission of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 12 January 2021.
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