Socialist Party of Ukraine
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Socialist Party of Ukraine
Соціалістична партія України |
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| Founded | 1991 |
| Preceded by | Communist Party of Ukraine (Soviet Union) |
| Ideology |
Social democracy, Democratic socialism, Soft euroscepticism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| European affiliation | None |
| International affiliation | None (expelled from Socialist International in 2011) |
| Colours | Violet |
| Verkhovna Rada |
0 / 450
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| Regions (2010) |
34 / 3,056
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The Socialist Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Соціалістична Партія України, Sotsialistychna Partiya Ukrainy, SPU) is a social democratic political party in Ukraine. It is one of the oldest parties and was created by the former members of the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine in late 1991 when the Communist Party was banned. It was part of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) from 1994 to 2007 and was for long the fourth biggest party of Ukraine. Since 2007 the election results of the party have been extremely marginal.
Oleksander Moroz led the party for more than 20 years.
After Ukraine gained independence on 24 August 1991Leonid Kravchuk as the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) signed several important documents among which was the disbandment (August 26) and later the prohibition (August 30) of communist parties. This led to the collapse of the communist majority faction, informally known as the "group of 239". Four days after the prohibition of communist parties Oleksander Moroz, the former leader of Group 239, called on communists to unite in a new left-wing party. In September in several major cities (particularly in Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv) local subsidiaries of the new party where founded. The founding congress of the party was held in Kiev on 26 October 1991; the first leader of the party became Moroz. The Socialist Party was registered at the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice on 25 November 1991 under registration number 157.
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