Democratic Party of Ukraine

The Democratic Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Демократична партія України; Demokratychna Partiya Ukrayni) is a political party in Ukraine registered in 1991^[1].

History

The Democratic Party of Ukraine is one of the oldest political institutions of Ukraine. DemPU was founded in 1990 by a group of famous Ukrainian dissidents.

In the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1994 the party gained 2 seats. In the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1998 the party was party of the Electoral bloc NEP with the Party of Economical Revival, the combination won 1,22% of the national vote^[2][3]; the party gained 1 (single-mandate constituency) seat.^[4] In a union with the Democratic Union^[3] the party gained 4 constituency seats during the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2002. At the parliamentary elections 2006 the party took part in the alliance Block of people's democratic parties but this alliance did not overcome the 3% threshold (wining only 0.49% of the votes) and therefore no seats.^[3] In the 30 September 2007 elections, the party failed as part of the Ukrainian Regional Asset to win parliamentary representation.^[3]

In July 2011 the chairman of the Democratic Party of Ukraine Sergey Kozachenko was sentenced to eight years in prison Kiev District Court of Simferopol on charges of embezzling 65 million hryvnia in credit union's "Southern". ^[5].

References

1. ^ (Ukrainian) Наша історія, Party official website
2. ^ In the current election campaign it seems more effective to be a democrat than a European, Policy Documentation Center (February 23, 1998)
3. ^ ^{a b c d} (Ukrainian) Демократична партія України, Databases DATA
4. ^ Deputies/Elected in multi-mandate constituency/Elections 29.11.1998, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
5. ^ The head of the Democratic Party got 8 years in prison

External links

• (Ukrainian) Official web site