People's Democratic Party (Ukraine)

People's Democratic Party Народно-демократична партія
Russian name	Народно-демократическая партия
Leader	Lyudmyla Suprun[1]
Founder	Anatoliy Matviyenko
Founded	24 February 1996; 28 years ago (1996-02-24) 30 May 1996 (registered)
Merger of	PDUV TCU USRC
Headquarters	Kyiv
Newspaper	Ukraine and World Today weekly
Youth wing	People's Democratic League of youth
Women wing	Action
Ecological wing	All-Ukrainian Ecological League
Membership (2012)	185,000
Ideology	Social democracy[2] Factions: Pro-Leonid Kuchma Authoritarianism[3][4]
Political position	Centre[5] to centre-left
National affiliation	Our Choice – Leonid Kuchma! For United Ukraine We Know How Ukrainian Regional Asset
Colours	Green
Website
ndp.org.ua (Archived)
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The People's Democratic Party (Ukrainian: Народно-демократична партія, romanized: Narodno-demokratychna partiya; abbreviated NDP) is a political party in Ukraine established on 24 February 1996. It was registered with the Ministry of Justice on 30 May 1996. The party is Russophone.

History

The People's Democratic Party was established at its constituent congress in Kyiv. The party was created through a merger of three political parties (The Party of Democratic Revival of Ukraine, the Toiling Congress of Ukraine, and the Union of Support for Republic of Crimea), two public organizations (The Union of Students of Ukraine and the New Wave) and two political clubs (New Ukraine and the Association of Young Ukrainian Politicians and Political Scientists). Anatoliy Matviyenko was elected party chairman.^[6]

At the 1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party gained 5% of the votes and 28 seats in the Verkhovna Rada. At the time of the election, the party's key member, Valeriy Pustovoitenko, was Prime Minister of Ukraine. Pustovoitenko became the party's leader in May 1999 until April 2006. In September 2001, the Interregional Bloc of Reforms [uk] (MBR) was merged into the party.^[7]

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 Verkhovna Rada.

At the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election, 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 taking 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);^[8] but it won in none and thus missed parliamentary representation.^[9]

The party did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.^[10]

Election results

Verkhovna Rada 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

• 1996 - 1999 Anatoliy Matviyenko
• 1999 - 2006 Valeriy Pustovoitenko
• 2006–present Lyudmyla Suprun

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. "Народно-демократична партія" [People's Democratic Party]. Encyclopaedia of Modern Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2 June 2022.
4. Ocheretiana, Mariia; Zabolotnyi, Nazar (26 August 2021). "Carried away by authoritarianism. Lessons of the second term of Kuchma". Centre of United Actions. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
5. Nordsieck, Wolfram. "Ukraine". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 5 December 2002.
6. (in Russian)/(website has automatic Google Translate option) Small biography of Anatoliy Matviyenko, LIGA
7. To PDP was added Interregional Bloc of Reforms. Ukrayinska Pravda. 9 September 2001
8. (in Ukrainian) Candidates Archived 2013-06-24 at archive.today, RBC Ukraine
9. Party of Regions gets 185 seats in Ukrainian parliament, Batkivschyna 101 - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (12 November 2012)
10. Alphabetical Index of parties in 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Central Election Commission of Ukraine

External links

• (in Ukrainian) Official web site
• Databases ASD: Political parties in Ukraine
• Profile at www.deputat.org.ua^{[permanent dead link‍]}