The Peasant Party of Ukraine (, ''Selyans'ka Partiya Ukrayiny'', SelPU) is an agrarian and

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political party in

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. It was created in 1992 as a successor of the

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that was temporarily outlawed in 1991. At the Ukrainian parliamentary election in 1994, the party obtained 2.74% of the votes and 19 out of 450 seats in the

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. At the Ukrainian parliamentary election in 1998, it gained in coalition with 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 ...

8.56% of the vote and 35 seats. The SelPU faction in the Verkhovna Rada consisted of 14 deputies. After the creation of the new parliamentary faction

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in 2000 a lot of deputies of the party moved to this new faction.Ukrainian Political Update
by

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and Alex Frishberg, Frishberg & Partners, 21 February 2008 (page 22) The following elections were not successful for the party. In the elections of 2002 the party won 0.37% of the votes, in 2006 0.31% and in the 2007 elections the party did not participate. In the 2004 presidential elections, the party supported the candidature of

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. In 2011, the party decided to join the

. On 28 January 2012, this decision was declared illegal by the

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. The party did not participate in the

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, it supported Yulia Tymoshenko as a presidential candidate.

Elections result

References

External links

Official website
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