The Justice Party ( ua, Партія «Справедливість»; formerly known as the Party of All-Ukrainian Union of the Left "Justice" (
Ukrainian
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* Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe
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* So ...
: Партія Всеукраїнського об'єднання лівих "Справедливість",
Russian
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: Партия Всеукраинского объединения левых "Справедливость"Партія „Справедливість“ Database DATA) is a
left-wing
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political party
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in
Ukraine
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. The party merged into the (then) new party United Left and Peasants ( uk, Об'єднані ліві і селяни,
Russian
Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including:
*Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukraini ...
(18 December 2011) Justice Party leader Stanislav Nikolaenko became the first party leader of United Left and Peasants. United Left and Peasants changed its name to Justice Party in 2014.
History
It was founded in 2000 by a group of former
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 ...
parliamentary elections
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on 26 March 2006 the party was part of the electoral
Lytvyn's People's Bloc
The Lytvyn Bloc, formerly Lytvyn's People's Bloc, ( uk, Блок Литвина, formerly Народний блок Литвина) was a centrist political alliance in Ukraine from 2006 till 2012 led by Volodymyr Lytvyn. It is one of successors o ...
, which won 2.44% of the popular vote and no seats. The party did not participate in the 2007 parliamentary elections.
2007 Party reform
In 2007 the SPU lost the parliamentarian elections, in order to "return into big policy" a group of SPU members including former minister of education of Ukraine Stanislav Nikolaenko and Aleksander Baranivskiy founded in 2008 the Union for Renewal of SPU and proposed 10 steps stated in the program "A Just Ukraine" to SPU leader Moroz. But the conservative entourage of Moroz persuade him to refuse the "road map for self-protection".
In March 2009 Nikolaenko and Baranivskiy left the SPU. In April 2009 Justice party's founder Ivan Chizh offered to implement the program "A Just Ukraine" and principals of the Union for Renewal on the basis of his Justice party. On 15 April Nikolaenko accepted an offer to chair the party. This decision was supported by the party's Congress and Council. Former Head and party's founder Ivan Chizh was elected as an Honorary Head. Former Minister of agrarian policy Oleksandr Baranivskiy was elected to the Deputy Head post.
Based on the program "A Just Ukraine" Nikolaenko addressed to the leaders of left parties to create a "Forum of Left Forces" and conduct the
parliamentary elections
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campaign as one team. The idea of supporting a joint candidature to the
presidential elections
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from left forces was also a subject of discussion.
The newly elected head proposed to adopt changes to the Statutes aimed at a democratization of the decision making process within the party and limit the number of presidency terms to three, two years each (maximum - 6 years). He proposed to conduct secret voting, primaries.
It was applied to be an observer member of the
European Left
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.
The party backed
Communist
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leader
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 ...
as a single candidate from the
election bloc of left and central left political forces
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 poli ...
(of which it was a member), for the post of the
Ukrainian President
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In December 2011 the party merged in with 3 other parties to form the new party United Left and Peasants. Leader of Justice Stanislav Nikolaenko headed this new party. At first (in 2011) plans appeared on unification of 11 left wing parties, the most noticeable of these being
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 ...
Ukrayinska Pravda
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Ukrayinska Pravda
''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukraini ...
(16 December 2011) In December 2011 the parties Justice Party,
Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party
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,
People Power
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,
Rural Revival Party
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The party aimed in December 2011 to win at least five percent of the vote in the
Central Election Commission of Ukraine
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Kyiv Post
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History
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(9 November 2012) The best result had leader of the party Nikolaenko who got third place in electoral district 185 with 16.18% (14 808 of popular votes).Results in 185 electoral district Central Election Committee (31 October 2012) And thus the party won no seat in the
Verkhovna Rada
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(Ukraine's parliament).
The party actively participated in
Euromaidan
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.
2014 Back to Justice
In 2014 the party United Left and Peasants decided to change its name (back) to Justice.Political council agreed upon the change of the name , United Left and Peasants web-site (April 12, 2014) The first decisions made were to back
Petro Poroshenko
Petro Oleksiyovych Poroshenko ( uk, Петро́ Олексі́йович Пороше́нко, ; born 26 September 1965) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who served as the fifth president of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019. Poroshenko ser ...
for
president of Ukraine
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2014 pro-Russian unrest in Ukraine
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Ukrainian Television and Radio
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Interfax-Ukraine
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Interfax-Ukraine
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2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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