Socialist Party – Peasant Party (; SPU–SelPU), officially known as the Electoral Bloc of the Socialist Party of Ukraine and the Peasant Party of Ukraine "For the Truth, For the People, For Ukraine!" (; ''Vyborchyi blok Sotsialistychnoyi partiyi Ukrayiny ta Selyanskoyi partiyi Ukrayiny "Za pravdu, za narod, za Ukrayinu"'') was the political

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and an electoral bloc in

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that managed to win parliamentary seats on party list. The alliance was founded in November 1997 to participate in the 1998 parliamentary election and consisted out of the

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and the Peasant Party of Ukraine.

Election results

Top-10 on the party list:

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(SPU), Serhiy Dovhan (SelPU), Viktor Suslov (independent), Ivan Chyzh (SPU), Ivan Bokyi (independent), Stanislav Nikolaenko (SPU), Oleksandr Tkachenko (SelPU), Kostiantyn Dovhan (SelPU), Yosyp Vinskyi (SPU), Nina Markovska (SPU).

Parliamentary faction

Following the election, the bloc has created a faction "Left Center" in the Verkhovna Rada. On 17 October 2000 on proposition of the Left Center deputy, several members of

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left in protest against the closing of publishing of "Peasant Herald". On 3 July 2001, the faction requested on urgent creation of provisional parliamentary commission in investigation of board governors of the Agrarian Bank "Ukraine" that led to bankruptcy of that bank."Left Center" requests to create a commission to check activity of Bank "Ukraine"

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. 3 July 2001

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Defunct socialist parties in Ukraine Defunct political party alliances in Ukraine Pan-Slavism Parliamentary factions in Ukraine 1998 establishments in Ukraine 2002 disestablishments in Ukraine Socialist Party of Ukraine {{Ukraine-party-stub