Communist Party of Workers and Peasants | |
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Founded | 2001 |
Banned | 30 September 2015 |
Split from | Communist Party of Ukraine |
Ideology |
Communism Marxism–Leninism |
The Communist Party of Workers and Peasants ( Ukrainian: Комуністична партія робітників і селян, Komunistychna Partiya Robitnykiv i Selian, KPRS) was a political party in Ukraine, formed in 2001 following a split from the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU). On 30 September 2015 the District Administrative Court in Kyiv banned the party. [1]
The first chairman of the party was Oleksander Mykolayovych Yakovenko. In the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party won 0.41% of the popular vote and no seats. [2] Since then it has not taken part in any nationwide election. [2] In 2011, the KPRS chairman Leonid Grach was elected as the head of the party in February 2011; at the time he was member of the Ukrainian parliament. [3] [4] Grach did not return to parliament after the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election after losing as an independent candidate in single-member districts number 1 ( first-past-the-post wins a parliament seat) located in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. [5] [6] His party did not participate in the election. [7] The party was again absent in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election. [7] [8]
In May 2015, decommunization in Ukraine came into effect in Ukraine, banning communist symbols, singing the Soviet national anthem or " The Internationale". [9] Because of these laws, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry stripped the party of its right to participate in elections on 24 July 2015. [10] The party did not challenge this ban and was thus on 30 September 2015 terminated by the District Administrative Court in Kyiv. [1]
Communist Party of Workers and Peasants | |
---|---|
Founded | 2001 |
Banned | 30 September 2015 |
Split from | Communist Party of Ukraine |
Ideology |
Communism Marxism–Leninism |
The Communist Party of Workers and Peasants ( Ukrainian: Комуністична партія робітників і селян, Komunistychna Partiya Robitnykiv i Selian, KPRS) was a political party in Ukraine, formed in 2001 following a split from the Communist Party of Ukraine (KPU). On 30 September 2015 the District Administrative Court in Kyiv banned the party. [1]
The first chairman of the party was Oleksander Mykolayovych Yakovenko. In the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party won 0.41% of the popular vote and no seats. [2] Since then it has not taken part in any nationwide election. [2] In 2011, the KPRS chairman Leonid Grach was elected as the head of the party in February 2011; at the time he was member of the Ukrainian parliament. [3] [4] Grach did not return to parliament after the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election after losing as an independent candidate in single-member districts number 1 ( first-past-the-post wins a parliament seat) located in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. [5] [6] His party did not participate in the election. [7] The party was again absent in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election. [7] [8]
In May 2015, decommunization in Ukraine came into effect in Ukraine, banning communist symbols, singing the Soviet national anthem or " The Internationale". [9] Because of these laws, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry stripped the party of its right to participate in elections on 24 July 2015. [10] The party did not challenge this ban and was thus on 30 September 2015 terminated by the District Administrative Court in Kyiv. [1]