The Democratic Party of Ukraine (; Demokratychna Partiya Ukrayiny) is a political party in Ukraine registered in 1991. Until 2006 it had a parliamentary representation, but after associating itself with the People's Democratic Party, the Democratic Party disappeared from political arena.

The party did not participate in either the 2012 nor the 2014 parliamentary elections.

History

The party's roots can be found in People's Movement of Ukraine (Rukh), the Ukrainian national democratic movement, and 1960s dissident movement (shistdesyatnyky). While the party's inaugural congress would only be held on 16 December 1990, the party's draft manifesto was first published in the newspaper Literaturna Ukraïna on 31 May 1990, and its creation announced by party leaders in Terebovlia on 22 September 1990. They included figures such as Ivan Drach, Dmytro Pavlychko, Volodymyr Yavorivsky, and Vitalii Donchyk.

The party's draft manifesto, based on Yuriy Badzyo's 1989 programme for a "Ukrainian Party of Democratic Socialism and State Independence", called for the establishment of an independent Ukraine, affirmed the party as a member of the social democratic movement, and opposed the formation of a new union between the republics of the Soviet Union. the party gained 1 (single-mandate constituency) seat. In a union with the Democratic Union

In July 2011 the chairman of the Democratic Party of Ukraine Sergey Kozachenko was sentenced to eight years in prison Kyiv District Court of Simferopol on charges of embezzling ₴65 million in credit union's "Southern".

In November 2011 the party formed a faction in the Kyiv City Council of 7 deputies, this while in the previous 2008 Kyiv City Council election the party had not won any seats.

In the 2014 Kyiv City Council election, the party won 2 seats. But in the 2015 Kyiv local election it lost these seats (it scored less than 2% of the vote).

The party did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

Electoral results

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! colspan="9"|Parliamentary representation

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! style="width: 60px"|Votes

! style="width: 20px"|%

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! 1994

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| Participated independently

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! 1998

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| as part "Block of Democratic Parties"

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! 2002

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| as part of Democratic Party - Democratic Union

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! 2006

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| as part of People's Democratic Parties

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! 2007

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| as part of Ukrainian Regional Asset

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! 2012

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! 2014

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References

  • Official web site