People's Democratic Party (Ukraine)
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People's Democratic Party
Народно-демократична партія |
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| Russian name | Народно-демократическая партия |
| Leader | Lyudmyla Suprun |
| Founded | February 24, 1996 May 30, 1996 (registered) |
| Merger of | Party of Democratic Revival, Toiling Congress of Ukraine, Union of Support of Crimea |
| Headquarters | Kiev |
| 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 |
| National affiliation |
Our Choice - Leonid Kuchma! For United Ukraine We Know How Ukrainian Regional Asset |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Green |
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| http://ndp.org.ua | |
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.
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. The new party chairman was elected Anatoliy Matviyenko.
The party had a flying start, at the parliamentary elections 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 (MBR).
At the parliamentary elections 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.
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