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Progress of the Fatherland Party Vatan Taraqqiyoti Partiyasi | |
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| Abbreviation | Vatan Tarakkiyoti ; VTP |
| Leader | Axtam Tursunov |
| Founded | 20 March 1992 (1992-03-20) |
| Dissolved | 14 April 2000 (2000-04-14) |
| Split from | People's Democratic Party |
| Merged into | Fidokorlar |
| Headquarters | Tashkent |
| Newspaper | Vatan |
| Membership | 35,000 |
| Ideology | Social conservatism Progressivism Economic liberalism Secularism Anti-communism |
| Political position | Centre-right |
| Slogan | «Progress of the Fatherland is the progress of each of us!» (Uzbek:«Vatan taraqqiyoti - bu har birimizning taraqqiyotimiz!») |
| Anthem | State Anthem of Uzbekistan |
| 1stOliy Majlis | 14 / 250 |
| 2ndOliy Majlis | 20 / 250 |
TheProgress of the Fatherland Party (Uzbek:Vatan Taraqqiyoti Partiyasi) was acentre-right political party inUzbekistan between 1992 and 2000. It served as the "constructive opposition" against the rulingPeople's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan.
The party was founded by a group of activists on 20 March 1992, on the eve of theNavruz holiday, and was officially registered with theMinistry of Justice. The party's stated platform was for "the development of [the] economic and spiritual independence ofUzbekistan on the basis of a freemarket economy, to influence the step-by-step development and improvement of a democratic civil society, to protect the interests of the intelligentsia, entrepreneurs anddekhans, [and] to protect the interests and stimulate the development of private owners and promote their reliable protection.'[1]
The party was one of two, along with thePeople's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan, to participate in independent Uzbekistan's first-everparliamentary election in 1994–95. The Progress of the Fatherland Party (VTP) ran 141 candidates on a platform of pursuing "economic reforms at a faster pace."[2] The VTP won 14 seats out of 250 in the unicameralOliy Majlis, becoming the opposition and the third-largest parliamentary group and after "candidates of the local councils" (167 seats, none from the VTP) and the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (69 seats).[3] The party had over 35,000 members by the mid-1990s and had its own print organ, the Vatan newspaper; its own center for the study of public opinion; and an information and analytical center.
The1999 parliamentary election saw three more parties win seats and the VTP drop to become the third-largest party despite increasing to 20 seats, behind "candidates of local councils" (110 seats), the People's Democratic Party of Uzbekistan (49 seats), and theSelf-Sacrifice National Democratic Party (34 seats).
The leaderships of the VTP and the Self-Sacrifice National Democratic Party began negotiations in early 2000 on merging because of similar political views and ideology. At a joint congress of the two parties on 14 April 2000 inTashkent, the Progress of the Fatherland Party merged into the Self-Sacrifice National Democratic Party, with former VTP leader Akhtam Tursunov becoming the leader of the unified party.[4][5] The party would later merge into theUzbekistan National Revival Democratic Party in 2007.
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