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Party of Shariy Партія Шарія | |
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| Leader | Anatoly Shariy |
| Founded | 6 June 2019 (2019-06-06) (current form)/3 February 2015 (2015-02-03) (as United Ukraine)[1] |
| Banned | 16 June 2022 (pending appeal)[2]/6 September 2022 (final appeal dismissed by theSupreme Court of Ukraine)[3] |
| Headquarters | Kharkiv |
| Ideology | Libertarianism[4] Russophilia[5] Euroscepticism[6][7] |
| Political position | Right-wing[8] |
| Colours | Red White |
| Verkhovna Rada | 0 / 450 |
| Regions | 0 / 158,399 |
| Odesa Oblast Council | 6 / 84 |
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| sharij | |
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TheParty of Shariy (Ukrainian:Партія Шарія,romanized: Partiia Shariia;Russian:Партия Шария,romanized: Partiya Shariya,PSh) is a bannedpolitical party inUkraine founded by political bloggerAnatoly Shariy. Its official proclaimed ideology islibertarianism.[4][1]
On 22 March 2022, during theRussian invasion of Ukraine, theNational Security and Defense Council of Ukraine decided to suspend the Party of Shariy because of alleged ties with Russia.[9] An Administrative Court of Appeal banned the party on 16 June 2022.[2] The party exercised its right to appeal to theSupreme Court of Ukraine.[2] On 6 September 2022, the Supreme Court rejected this appeal and thus finally banned its activities in Ukraine. The reasons given for banning the party were: destabilization of the social and political situation in Ukraine, spread ofanti-Ukrainian propaganda regarding the change of the constitutional system by violent means, violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, propaganda of war, violence in conditions of military aggression of the Russian Federation.[3]
In the beginning of June 2019, Ukrainian blogger Anatoly Shariy recorded a video in which he announced the establishment of his ownpolitical party.[10][11] Shortly thereafter, he published a video splash screen on his pages in social networks, in which he throws a redballoon towards the audience. Shariy did not explain what this means, but on his website there was a message that hinted about creating a party. Later on, the red balloon became a symbol of the party and its pre-election campaign.[12][13]
The party was created by renaming the political partyUnited Ukraine.[14] United Ukraine had been registered in February 2015.[1] On 6 June 2019, the Party of Shariy was officially registered in Ukraine.[15][16] The party took part in the2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election. The eponymous leader of the party, Shariy, was denied registration by theCentral Election Commission of Ukraine as a candidate for the election. This was on the grounds that he did not meet the requirement of a term of five-year residence in the country immediately preceding the elections, as he left Ukraine in January 2012 and did not come back ever since.[17][18]
In the 2019 parliamentary election the party gained 327,152 votes (2.23% of total, position #10).[19] As the party did not receive 5% of the vote, it did not win any parliamentary seats. The party also failed to win a constituency seat.[20] It was most successful in the east and south of Ukraine: according to exit polls, 69% of the party's votes came from these regions.[21] "The Party of Shariy" took fourth place in the electoral district abroad with 4.72% of the voters.[22]
As the party won more than 2% of votes, it was originally entitled to funding from the budget for its support. However, on 2 October 2019, theVerkhovna Rada adopted the draft law No. 1029, which deprived parties of state funding that had won less than 5 per cent of the vote. After this law was adopted, Party of Shariy lost about 441,511 thousand euros in state funding.[23]
Together with the Opposition Bloc, the Party of Shariy was considered a competitor to the pro-Russian Opposition Platform — For Life in the2020 Ukrainian local elections.[24] However, the leader of theOpposition Platform — For Life,Viktor Medvedchuk declared that he did not view the Party of Shariy as a competitor, but as allies.[25][26]
The party won 52 seats in local councils[14] ineast andsouth Ukraine.[14]
On 15 February 2022, in the run-up toRussia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the local deputy of the Party of Shariy inOdesa spoke out against support forterritorial self-defense units, calling them "bandits." She remarked that Russian military exercises had already ended.[27]
On 22 March 2022, the Party of Shariy was one of several political parties suspended by theNational Security and Defense Council, along withDerzhava, Left Opposition,Nashi, theOpposition Bloc,Opposition Platform — For Life, theProgressive Socialist Party of Ukraine, theSocialist Party of Ukraine, theUnion of Left Forces, and theVolodymyr Saldo Bloc.[9]
The party's faction in theKharkiv City Council was disbanded due to lack of members.[14]
On 16 June 2022, the Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal banned the party.[2] The property of the party and all its branches were transferred to the state.[2] The decision was open to appeal at theSupreme Court of Ukraine.[2]
At its meeting of 6 September 2022 the Supreme Court rejected the appeal of Party of Shariy and thus banned its activities in Ukraine.[3] The reasons given for banning the party were: destabilization of the social and political situation in Ukraine, spread ofanti-Ukrainian propaganda regarding the change of the constitutional system by violent means, violation of the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine, propaganda of war, violence in conditions of military aggression of the Russian Federation.[3]
In January 2023, members of a clandestine cell of the Party of Shariy were arrested by theSecurity Service of Ukraine inDnipro. During the search of its premises, documents including instructions to provoke mass riots were discovered.[28]
The party's political council consists of two people - it is headed by Olha Shariy and the other member is her first deputy Oleksandr Vyunyk.[1] According to the Unified State Register, in June 2020 the party had 16regional and 1 city (Kyiv) local branches.[1]
Antonina Beloglazova, who was third on the party's list of candidates in 2019 and editor of the Shariy website, collaborated in Russia in 2015–2016 with theNational Liberation Movement (NCD), which aims to "restore Russia's sovereignty". This movement has been repeatedly observed at various pro-Putin events. Following these revelations, she lost her position in the party.[29][30]
Konstantin Mamrosenko, Beloglazova's brother, who heads department "B" in the "Shariy Party", together with "Motorola" took part in the seizure of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration during the so-called "Russian Spring" in 2014.[29][31]
Tarasy Plaksiy, the curator of the Shariy party in Khmelnytskyi, Chernivtsi and Ternopil regions, was at the Alabino military training ground in the Russian Federation in 2017, where Russian special forces are stationed, and took part in the patriotic event "Fight for Russia Day".[29][32][33]
On 24 June 2020 in Kharkiv, a supporter of the " Party of Shariy" - Nikita Rozhenko was beaten. Criminal proceedings on the attack on Nikita Rozhenko, coordinator of the "Party of Shariy" in Kharkiv, are being investigated as an attempt on murder committed by prior conspiracy of a group of people.[34][35][36][37][38] InKharkiv, on 1 July 2020, the local representative of the Party of Shariy was sprinkled with green paint.[39] A "safari" on the Party members was openly announced by theNational Corps.[40][41]
According to the journalist Andriy Kachor (Ukrainian:Андрій Качор) - he received threats from Sharij Party supporters after the publication on his site about the burning of Sharij Party agitation materials by unknownVinnytsia people.[42][43]
The police of Vinnytsia region identified the attacker on the chief editor of the local newspaper Andrey Kachor and found no connection between the attack and Kachor's conflict with video blogger Anatoliy Shariy.[44][45]
"The police said they had found the man who had beaten Kachor. The attacker was a 27-year-old resident of Vinnytsia. According to him, there was a verbal altercation between him and Kachor in the cafe, which turned into a fight. The man denies any relation with the video blogger Anatolia Shariy, and calls the conflict situational."[46]
The party is accused ofrussophilia. The leader,Anatoly Shariy, strongly denies the allegations.[5][47][48][49][50]
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