Party of Greens of Ukraine Партія зелених України | |
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| Leader | Tetyana Bodun |
| Founded | 24 May 1991 (1991-05-24) (registered) |
| Headquarters | Kyiv |
| Membership | 28,000[1] |
| Ideology | Green politics[2] |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| European affiliation | European Green Party |
| International affiliation | Global Greens |
| Verkhovna Rada | 0 / 450 |
| Regional councils | 0 / 1,804 |
| Local councils[3] | 36 / 158,399 |
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TheParty of Greens of Ukraine (Ukrainian:Партія зелених України,romanized: Partiia zelenykh Ukrayiny, PZU) is aUkrainiangreenpolitical party founded in 1990[4] byYuriy Shcherbak and registered in May 1991.[5]
The party is a successor of the Green World Association (founded December 1987[6]) and under that name participated in theUkrainian parliamentary elections of 1990 as part of theDemocratic Bloc.[4] 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.[7]
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.[7]
The Party has been a member of theEuropean Green Party since January 1994.[7]
The registration certificate of the similarly-namedGreen Party of Ukraine was cancelled in November 2011 because it had not nominated a candidate in an election since theparliamentary elections of 1998.[8]
In the1998 parliamentary election, the Ukrainian Greens received 5.5%[5] of the vote and 19 seats[7] in theVerkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament). According to historianAndrew Wilson, during this period the party was more of a sanctuary foroligarchs than a legitimate green party, as oligarchs dominated the party's election list.[9]
The 1998 success wasn't repeated in the2002 election, in which final poll results had predicted that the party would receive between 4% and 5% of the total vote.[10] However, the party fell below expectations and earned a mere 1.3% of the total vote, losing all its seats.[5] In the2006 parliamentary elections and the2007 parliamentary elections, the party received 0.54% and 0.40% respectively and failed to earn seats in parliament both times.[5]
The party participated in the2012 parliamentary elections,[11] in which it won 0.35% of the national vote and none of the fifteenconstituencies in which it had competed[12] and thus failed to win parliamentary representation.[13] The party also participated in the2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, but received 0.24%, which once again was not enough to gain parliamentary representation.[14] In the2019 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.[15]
In the2020 Ukrainian local elections, the party gained 24 deputies (0.06% of all available mandates).[16]
| Election | Popular vote | Percentage | Overall seats | Change | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Democratic Bloc[a] | 125 / 450 | — | Opposition | |
| 1994 | 71,946 | 0.3 | 0 / 450 | New | Extra-parliamentary |
| 1998 | 1,444,264 | 5.44 | 19 / 450 |  19 | Minority support |
| 2002 | 338,252 | 1.31 | 0 / 450 |  19 | Extra-parliamentary |
| 2006 | 137,858 | 0.54 | 0 / 450 |  0 | Extra-parliamentary |
| 2007 | 94,505 | 0.41 | 0 / 450 | 0 | Extra-parliamentary |
| 2012 | 70,316 | 0.35 | 0 / 450 | 0 | Extra-parliamentary |
| 2014 | 39,636 | 0.25 | 0 / 450 | 0 | Extra-parliamentary |
| 2019 | 96,659 | 0.66 | 0 / 450 | 0 | Extra-parliamentary |
