The Election Bloc of Left and Center-left Political Forces ( uk, Блок лівих і лівоцентристських сил (лівий блок)) or the Block of the Left Forces ( uk, Блок Лівих Сил) is the name of a bloc of political parties in

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who participated in the 2010 presidential election with a single candidate; the leader of the

Communist Party of Ukraine The Communist Party of Ukraine, Abbreviation: KPU, from Ukrainian and Russian "" is a banned political party in Ukraine. It was founded in 1993 as the successor to the Soviet-era Communist Party of Ukraine which was banned in 1991 (accord ...

Petro Symonenko Petro Mykolayovych Symonenko ( uk, Петро́ Микола́йович Симоне́нко; born 1 August 1952) is a Ukrainian politician and the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. Symonenko was the Co ...

. During the 2010 election he received 3.54% of the votes.

History

On September 14, 2009 the

, the

Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) The Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) ( uk, Соцiал-демократична партія України (об'єднана); СДПУ(о)), is a Ukrainian political party that was originally established as the Social Democratic P ...

, the Justice Party and the

Union of Leftists Union of Left Forces ( uk, Союз лівих сил, Soyuz livykh syl; SLS) was a Ukrainian political party led by from its founding to 2019 by Vasyl Volha.

signed an agreement on creating the bloc of leftists and center-leftists and a unitary participation in the upcoming presidential election. The Bloc nominated Communist leader

for the post of

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. On October 3, 2009 his own Communist Party proposed him, on October 10, 2009 the Justice Party did the same followed by the Union of Leftists on October 16 and the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) on October 17, 2009. The

Socialist Party of Ukraine The Socialist Party of Ukraine ( uk, Соціалістична Партія України, translit=Sotsialistychna Partiia Ukrayiny, SPU) was a social democratic and democratic socialist political party in Ukraine. It was one of the oldest par ...

did not join the bloc but did state on the day of its creation that they would continue to negotiate to join the bloc. The Socialist Party of Ukraine also stated they would have preferred if the bloc would have been created after the presidential election (of 2010). The

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refused to join the unionCommunists say leftist bloc will call for referendum on NATO and Russian language status

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(September 24, 2009) since it did not want to be in the same election bloc as the Socialist Party of Ukraine. The creation of the bloc made ex-

Leonid Kravchuk Leonid Makarovych Kravchuk ( uk, Леонід Макарович Кравчук; 10 January 1934 – 10 May 2022) was a Ukrainian politician and the first president of Ukraine, serving from 5 December 1991 until 19 July 1994. In 1992, he signed ...

leave the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united), Kravchuk declared he also was indignant because the political council of the party decided to accomplish that behind the closed doors in non-democratic order. He called the block ''"as the artificial union without any perspectives"''.Kravchuk leaves Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)
,

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(September 25, 2009)

Stances

The bloc of leftists is planning to call for a referendum on the Common Economic Space, Ukraine's attitude to NATO and the status of the

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. The bloc wants Russian to be the second state language in Ukraine (currently

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is the only state language of Ukraine).

References

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