Party of Greens of Ukraine

The Party of Greens of Ukraine ( uk, Партія зелених України, Partiia zelenykh Ukrayiny, PZU) is a Ukrainian green political party founded in 1990 by Yuriy Shcherbak and registered in May 1991.

The party is a successor of the Green World Association (founded December 1987) and under that name participated in the Ukrainian parliamentary elections of 1990 as part of the Democratic Bloc.Serhy Yekelchyk ''Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation'', Oxford University Press (2007), , page 187 The Green World Association quickly transformed itself into the Party of Greens of Ukraine.

After being electorally successful in the late 20th century, the party became nationally electorally marginal but representatives of the party are present in regional and local governing bodies.Official party site

Overview

The party's main priorities are the alteration of anti-ecological attitudes in the economic system, the reconstruction of the social system, and the protection of human rights.

The Party has been a member of the European Green Party since January 1994.

The registration certificate of the similarly-named ''Green Party of Ukraine'' was cancelled in November 2011 because it had not nominated a candidate in an election since the parliamentary elections of 1998.

Electoral history

In the 1998 parliamentary election, the Ukrainian Greens received 5.5%Databases ASD: Political parties in Ukraine
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The 1998 success wasn't repeated in the 2002 election, in which final poll results had predicted that the party would receive between 4% and 5% of the total vote. However, the party fell below expectations and earned a mere 1.3% of the total vote, losing all its seats. In the 2006 parliamentary elections and the 2007 parliamentary elections, the party received 0.54% and 0.40% respectively and failed to earn seats in parliament both times.

The party participated in the 2012 parliamentary elections,Ukrainian Green Party to participate in 2012 parliamentary elections
Kyiv Post (19 December 2011) in which it won 0.35% of the national vote and none of the fifteen constituencies in which it had competed and thus failed to win parliamentary representation.Proportional votes


, Central Election Commission of Ukraine The party also participated in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party gained 0.66% of the national vote and no parliamentary seats, with the party also failing to win a constituency seat.CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections
Ukrinform (26 July 2019)
Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019
Ukrayinska Pravda (21 July 2019)

In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections, the party gained 24 deputies (0.06% of all available mandates).

Election results

Verkhovna Rada

Notable people

* Pavlo Khazan, Ukrainian ecologist

See also

* Conservation movement
* Environmental movement
* Green party
* List of environmental organizations

Notes

References

External links

Official site

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1990 establishments in Ukraine
European Green Party
Global Greens member parties
Green political parties in Ukraine
Green political parties
Political parties established in 1990
Pro-independence parties in the Soviet Union