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Radical Party of Oleh Liashko
Радикальна партія Олега Ляшка
Political positionLeft-wing[6]
Colours  Red
Verkhovna Rada[7]
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Regions[8]
582 / 43,122
Website
liashko.ua

The Radical Party of Oleh Liashko (Ukrainian: Радикальна партія Олега Ляшка, romanizedRadykal'na partiia Oleha Liashka, RPOL)[1] and formerly known as the Ukrainian Radical-Democratic Party (Ukrainian: Українська демократично-радикальна партія), is a political party in Ukraine[9] that was registered in September 2010.[1] It was primarily known for its radical populism, especially in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election when it gained its largest support.[10]

At the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party had won 1 seat.[11] The party won 22 seats at the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[12][13] In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election it lost all those seats.[14]

History

Ukrainian Radical-Democratic Party

The logo of the Ukrainian Radical-Democratic Party

The party was established at the founding congress in

Ministry of Justice of Ukraine on 28 September 2010.[1][15] At the time, the party was led by Vladyslav Telipko.[15]

Radical Party of Oleh Liashko

During its third party congress on 8 August 2011, Oleh Liashko was elected the new party leader.[15] The same day, the party changed its name to the Radical Party of Oleh Liashko.[16]

At the

constituency (it had competed in 28 constituencies)[17] for its leader Liashko,[18] who did not join a faction in the Verkhovna Rada.[19] The party was most successful in Chernihiv Oblast, where it received 10.69 percent of the vote, finishing fifth.[citation needed] The constituency that Liashko won was also located in Chernihiv Oblast.[citation needed
]

According to political scientist Tadeusz A. Olszański, in mid-September 2014 the party was "a typical one-man party, centred around Oleh Liashko; its real organisational potential remains a mystery".

On 21 November 2014, the party became a member of the coalition supporting the

second Yatsenyuk government and sent one minister into this government.[23][24]

On 3 June 2015, the parliament stripped the party's MP Serhii Melnychuk of his parliamentary prosecutorial immunity rights as he was accused of forming a criminal gang, abductings and threatening people.[25]

The Radical Party left the second Yatsenyuk government coalition on 1 September 2015 in protest over a vote in parliament involving a change to the

anti-Ukrainian changes to the constitution, initiated by the president, were approved against the will of three parties of the coalition".[26] He was referring to his own party, Self Reliance and Fatherland.[27]

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party lost all its parliamentary seats, it gained about 1% too little to clear the 5% election threshold and also did not win an electoral district seat.[14] The party had participated in 65 single-mandate majority electoral districts.[28]

In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections 535 people won seats in local councils on behalf of the party, that is about 1.62% of the available seats.[29]

Ideology and stances

Observers had defined the party as

primary health centres in every village[48] and mixes them with strong nationalist sentiments.[49] Anton Shekhovtsov of University College London considers Liashko's party to be similar to populist and nationalist.[50] A similar view is shared by political scientist Mattia Zulianello.[51] Political scientist Tadeusz A. Olszański described the party as liberal-nationalist, pro-European and populist.[52]

Liashko and his party combine radically left-wing economical stances with authoritarian and nationalist outlook on society. The party promotes the concept of a state as an active, authoritarian regulator of both the society and economy. The party supports extensive social welfare, protectionism as a way to support domestic industries, generous agricultural grants and implementation of state control on prices. One of the iconic proposals of the party is for the state to pay at least 5.000 hryvnias to every farmer for every cow owned, and to compensate 50% of farming equipment cost.[53] The ideological foundation of the party was described as left social populism with paternalistic qualities; in its program, the party asserts" “The purpose of the Radical Party – a society of equal opportunities and welfare.” Similarly, the party also states the “protection of the disadvantaged” as its overarching goal.[54]

The party has promised to purify the country of oligarchs "with a pitchfork".[55] It has proposed higher taxes on products manufactured by oligarchs and a crisis tax on the latter.[48] The party was described as presenting "left-wing, anti-oligarch economic policies previously associated with the Communist Party"; the similarity with the banned Communist Party is also similar because of the Radical Party's oppositional stance towards EU integration. Paul Chaisty and Stephen Whitefield noted that the party "took the same position as voters of right-wing and nationalist parties on the question of EU integration, suggesting no significant realignment of Communist voters in the East".[41]

The party wants to

re-arm Ukraine with nuclear weapons.[55] The party also advocates an end to the Russo-Ukrainian War by the use of force.[20]

Amongst the proposals of the party is to ban Russophile parties such as the Communist Party of Ukraine and the Party of Regions.[56] Despite its anti-Russian positions, the party also supports localism and regional decentralization, arguing for the need to extend the authority of local governments.[57]

Party leader Liashko had stressed in May 2011 he had nothing against sexual minorities.

Ukrayinska Pravda, he stated that being an LGBT person "is the choice of each individual. I can not condemn".[59]

Polish observers compared the Radical Party of Olesh Liashko to Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland (Polish: Samoobrona Rzeczpospolitej Polski).[60] Samoobrona is a far-left[61] Polish political party that was described as radical,[62] left-wing populist,[63] and agrarian socialist.[64] Two parties share many similarities, such as their staunchly nationalist, agrarian and left-wing populists positions, as well as controversial forms of protest.[60]

Party leaders

  • Vladyslav Telipko (2010–2011)
  • Oleh Liashko (2011–present)

Election results

Results in the 2012 elections
Results in the 2014 elections

Verkhovna Rada

Year Popular vote % of popular vote Overall seats won Seat change Government
2012 221,136 1.08
1 / 450
Increase 1 Opposition
2014 1,171,697 7.45
22 / 450
Increase 21 Coalition government (until 2015),
Opposition (2015−19)
2019 586,294 4.01
0 / 450
Decrease 22 Extra-parliamentary

Presidential elections

President of Ukraine
Election year Candidate No. of 1st round votes % of 1st round vote No. of 2nd round votes % of 2nd round vote
2014 Oleh Liashko 1,500,377 8.32
2019 Oleh Liashko 1,036,003 5.48

See also

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