Party of Greens of Ukraine

The Party of Greens of Ukraine (Template:Langx, PZU) is a Ukrainian green political party founded in 1990<ref name="Serhy"/> by Yuriy Shcherbak and registered in May 1991.<ref name=ASD/>

The party is a successor of the Green World Association (founded December 1987<ref>Serhy Yekelchyk Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation, Oxford University Press (2007), Template:ISBN, page 181</ref>) and under that name participated in the Ukrainian parliamentary elections of 1990 as part of the Democratic Bloc.<ref name="Serhy">Serhy Yekelchyk Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation, Oxford University Press (2007), Template:ISBN, page 187</ref> 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.<ref name="Offi">Official party site Template:Webarchive</ref>

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.<ref name="Offi"/>

The Party has been a member of the European Green Party since January 1994.<ref name="Offi"/>

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.<ref>Lavrynovych: Court cancels registration certificates of five Ukrainian parties, Kyiv Post (29 November 2011)</ref>

Electoral history

In the 1998 parliamentary election, the Ukrainian Greens received 5.5%<ref name=ASD>Template:In lang Databases ASD: Political parties in Ukraine</ref> of the vote and 19 seats<ref name="Offi"/> in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament). According to historian Andrew Wilson, during this period the party was more of a sanctuary for oligarchs than a legitimate green party, as oligarchs dominated the party's election list.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

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.<ref>Ukraine's election frontrunners, BBC News (28 March 2002)</ref> However, the party fell below expectations and earned a mere 1.3% of the total vote, losing all its seats.<ref name=ASD/> 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.<ref name=ASD/>

The party participated in the 2012 parliamentary elections,<ref name=Moskal>Ukrainian Green Party to participate in 2012 parliamentary elections, Kyiv Post (19 December 2011)</ref> in which it won 0.35% of the national vote and none of the fifteen constituencies in which it had competed<ref>Template:In lang Candidates, RBC Ukraine</ref> and thus failed to win parliamentary representation.<ref name=Ukrelct2012resCECU>Template:In lang Proportional votes Template:Webarchive & Constituency seats Template:Webarchive, Central Election Commission of Ukraine</ref> The party also participated in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, but received 0.24%, which once again was not enough to gain parliamentary representation.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the 2019 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.<ref name="2748306cec100percentGPU">CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, Ukrinform (26 July 2019)
Template:In lang Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019, Ukrayinska Pravda (21 July 2019)</ref>

In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections, the party gained 24 deputies (0.06% of all available mandates).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Election results

Verkhovna Rada

Election	Popular vote	Percentage	Overall seats	Change	Outcome
1990	Democratic BlocTemplate:Efn		Template:Composition bar	—	Template:No2
1994	71,946	0.3	Template:Composition bar	New	Template:No
1998	1,444,264	5.44	Template:Composition bar	Template:Increase 19	Template:Partial
2002	338,252	1.31	Template:Composition bar	Template:Decrease 19	Template:No
2006	137,858	0.54	Template:Composition bar	Template:Steady 0	Template:No
2007	94,505	0.41	Template:Composition bar	Template:Steady 0	Template:No
2012	70,316	0.35	Template:Composition bar	Template:Steady 0	Template:No
2014	39,636	0.25	Template:Composition bar	Template:Steady 0	Template:No
2019	96,659	0.66	Template:Composition bar	Template:Steady 0	Template:No

Notable people

• Pavlo Khazan, Ukrainian ecologist

See also

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

External links

• Template:Official website
• Information at EFGP