Ukrainian Party of People's Democracy
Pravotsentristkaya pro-presidential party.
Created at the constituent congress of February 24, 1996. Once the leaders of the Party of Democratic Revival Volodymyr Filenko and Labor Congress of Ukraine Anatoly Litvinenko, losing parliamentary elections in 1994, decided to unite and create a b party, joined Soyuh entrepreneurs of the Republic of Crimea, the Union of Ukrainian students, "Nova hvilya (" New Wave "), T. Stetskiv, as well as political clubs" Association of Young Ukrainian political analysts and politicians "and" New Ukraine "(a group of businessmen, competing with the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, led by the then head of the Ukrainian presidential administration Kushnaryov). In 1998, Anatoly Galchinsky, Presidential Adviser on Economic Affairs of Uzbekistan, wrote an article about that ideology is Democratic Party - the average between the ideology of social democracy and liberalism - the social-liberal ideology. It was the first attempt to define the ideology of a major party, pretend to be the "party of power" and caused quite a lively discussion on this subject in 1998-1999-ies. As part of its ideology sees the NDP in the Ivan Franko (interestingly, in the activities and works Franco sees its origins and the Socialist Party Oleksandr Moroz), which at one time led the People's Democratic Party of Galicia.
At the 2 nd Congress of the NDP in 1997, it was decided to "go into power. Soon, it included prominent members of the nomenclature: the Prime Minister Pustovoitenko, a member of the Government Tolstoukhov, several provincial governors (the maximum number of governors - NDP members reached 12 people) - in fact, PPD was by 1998 the "party of power". Chairman of the party became Anatoly Matvienko, at the moment - the governor of the Vinnytsia Oblast (held this post until 1998). In the elections of the Verkhovna Rada in 1998, the party got 1,331,460 votes (5,01%) and 17 mandates on the party list, six candidates of the party were elected in single constituencies.
NDP became the political foundation of the people's democratic consolidation "New Ukraine", which included 25 community organizations (the Union of Ukrainian students, the Association of Youth residential complex Ukrmolodzhitlo, the Ukrainian Rada of young scientists and experts, the Ukrainian League of enterprises with foreign capital, the Union of Lawyers of Ukraine and etc.). In the 1999 presidential elections the party entered the electoral bloc "Our choice - Leonid Kuchma."
By this time the party had the two wings - to bring together representatives of nomenclature "prokuchminskoe and relatively pro-Russian (Kushnaryov Pustovoitenko, Tolstoukhov, etc.) and presents an initial" democratic "basis for PPD (Matvienko, Filenko, Stetskiv) more pro-Western, supporting the president with reservations . Before the presidential election of 1999, the "democratic wing" in the PRD proposed to the President to sign an agreement with the party about the terms on which the party would support him, the president refused to sign such an agreement, saying that elected by the people and accountable to the people, not of any political party .
After the formal decision to support Kuchma's party split from her left 11 deputies of the Verkhovna Rada and the majority of ordinary members, the new leader of the NDP became Prime Minister of Ukraine V. Pustovoitenko. Affiliated NDP policy, belong to different parties, most of them are included in the EDP (Filenko, Stetskiv) and A. Matvienko has created a new party, "CATHEDRAL", which takes a sharp right-wing anti-presidential positions and one of Tymoshenko's bloc. |