The Justice Party (; formerly known as the Party of All-Ukrainian Union of the Left "Justice" ( Ukrainian: 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 (,
Russian
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Ukrayinska Pravda
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(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
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parliamentary elections
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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
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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
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.
The party backed
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leader
Petro Symonenko
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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
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Ukrayinska Pravda
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Ukrayinska Pravda
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(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
. But the party did not take part in the nationwide proportional party-list system; instead it was decided in August 2012 that nine members of the party would try to win a seat in nine of the 225 local single-member districts. Eventually in total, 14 members of the party participated in the elections, however no one won in their district.Proportional votes
Central Election Commission of Ukraine
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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
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2014 back to 'Justice'
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Petro Poroshenko
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for
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In the
2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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the party participated in 14 constituencies; but its candidates lost in all of them and thus the party won no parliamentary seats.Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament ,
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2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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