Self Reliance (political party)
Self Reliance Samopomich Самопоміч | |
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Leader | Oksana Syroyid[1] |
Founder | Andriy Sadovyi |
Founded | 29 December 2012 |
Headquarters | Lviv |
Membership (2019[2]) | ±2,000[2] |
Ideology | |
Political position | Centre-right |
European affiliation | European People's Party (observer)[7] |
Colours | Green Blue |
Verkhovna Rada[8] | 1 / 450 |
Regions (2020) | 222 / 43,122 |
Lviv Oblast Council | 9 / 84 |
Website | |
samopomich | |
The Union "Self Reliance" (Ukrainian: Об'єднання «Самопоміч»; Ob'yednannya «Samopomich») is a liberal conservative and Christian democratic political party in Ukraine.
It was founded on 29 December 2012, and identifies with the ideology of "Christian morality and common sense." The name of the party is similar to the name of the NGO, founded by former leader, Andriy Sadovyi in 2004. The party won 33 seats in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[9][10] In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party won a single seat, the 122nd electoral district in Lviv Oblast.[11]
Etymology
The name and ideology of the party is referring to the history of Ukrainian cooperative movement, which started in
The idea proved to be popular among Ukrainian peasants; in 1914, the Union of Milk Cooperatives united more than 100 unions under the leadership of Ostap Nyzhankivskyi. Soon the Union started to issue its own newspaper, which received the name 'Samopomich'. The WWI and the following Polish-Ukrainian war interrupted the movement, as its activists devoted themselves to the work for the West Ukrainian People's Republic. The leader of the movement, Ostap Nyzhankivskyi, became the district commissar of Stryi and died in the battle for the city on 13 May 1919.
The cooperative activism reemerged after the WWI. The officers of the Ukrainian Galician Army who had emigrated to Czechoslovakia and Denmark, returned to Ukraine and brought there the experience of European cooperative movement. Until late 1930s, the new cooperative 'Ukrainian Milk Society 'Maslosoyiuz' united up to 500,000 farms, and became an important player in the European agriculture market.
The practice of cooperation spread to other spheres of life: Galician Ukrainians founded their own bank (bank 'Dnister'), trade network (shops of 'Maslosoyiuz' and 'People's Trade'), supervision bodies (Revision Union of Ukrainian Cooperatives), insurance companies, educational system, etc. Such organisations, as
History
Early history
The contemporary history of the political party Self Reliance started in 2004, with the creation of an NGO called "Self Reliance". Andriy Sadovyi, who was the director of the Institute of the City Development, initiated the foundation of an organisation, which would derive from the history and traditions of the Ukrainian cooperation movement. Thus, the charity "Self Reliance" was established on 4 November 2004. The main activities of the organisation were: promoting legal literacy among the citizens, promoting healthy lifestyle, organisation of the volunteer movement and establishing local cooperation entities.[13][14]
In 2006, Andriy Sadovyi was elected the mayor of Lviv. He relied on the Self Reliance team in creating the development strategy for the city of Lviv. In 2010, Sadovyi was reelected for the office of mayor.
On 14 October 2012, Sadovyi began the formation of the Self Reliance political party. The party united the legacy of Ukrainian cooperative movement and Christian-democratic ideology. Self Reliance was registered as a political party on 29 December 2012.
Kyiv City Council elections
Self Reliance participated in the 25 May 2014 elections to the Kyiv City Council.[17] The party asked the citizens to propose candidates for the election, and assigned the position in the party list according to the preferences of the public. In that election, the party received 7.4% of votes and won five seats in the Council.[18][19]
2014 parliamentary elections and faction
On 28 February 2014, the party's leader Andriy Sadovyi, said Self Reliance would take part in the snap parliamentary elections scheduled for October 2014.[20] In the Ukrainian parliamentary election Hanna Hopko headed the party list, followed by Donbas Battalion commander Semen Semenchenko, while Sadovyi obtained the 50th place. The party campaigned for local self-organisation and decentralisation. The party finished third in the election.[10]
It was the only party which did not have any former parliamentarians on its election list but rather people from community
The top ten members of parliament were Hanna Hopko, Semen Semenchenko, Oleksiy Skrypnyk, Oksana Syroyid, Viktor Kryvenko, Iryna Suslova, Pavlo Kyshkar, Aliona Babak, Natalia Veselova and Oleksandr Danchenko.
Following the elections the party became a member of the coalition supporting the current second Yatsenyuk Government and it had one minister in this government, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food Oleksiy Pavlenko.[24][25][26]
Hopko and Kryvenko were expelled from Self Reliance on 31 August 2015 for violating faction discipline, as they supported the amendments to the
The party did not do particularly well in the
On 4 February 2016, leader of Self Reliance parliamentary faction
On 17 February 2016, after a supported by the party but failed motion of no confidence against the government, Self Reliance issued an official statement on its Facebook page in which it argued "A cynical coup has occurred in Ukraine, with the help of the president, the prime minister, the kleptocratic part of the coalition, and the oligarch bloc" that led to the second Yatsenyuk government being an "illegitimate government".[31] The next day Self Reliance left the coalition.[32][31]
The party did not join the coalition that supports 14 April 2016 installed Groysman Government.[33]
From Autumn 2015 until June 2016, party members were engaged in talks on an attempt to form a political party around then Governor of Odesa Oblast Mikheil Saakashvili with members of the parliamentary group Interfactional Union "Eurooptimists", Democratic Alliance and possibly Self Reliance until this projection collapsed in June 2016.[34]
2019 and 2020 elections
Self Reliance announced on 3 October 2018 that party leader Andriy Sadovyi would be their candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.[35] He indeed became a candidate in the election from 8 January[36] until 1 March 2019, when he decided to withdraw to support the candidacy of Anatoliy Hrytsenko.[37] In these elections, Hrytsenko did not proceed to the second round of the election; in the first round, he placed fifth with 6.91% of the votes.[38]
In April and May 2019, seven members of the party's parliamentary faction left the party but remained in the Self Reliance faction.[39]
In the July
In October 2019, the former party leader Sadovyi was succeeded by Oksana Syroyid.[1]
In the
Ideology
According to former party leader
Election results
Verkhovna Rada
Year | Popular vote | % of popular vote | Overall seats won | Seat change | Government |
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2014 | 1,727,744 | 10.98 | 33 / 450
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New | Coalition (2014−2016) |
Opposition (2016−2019) | |||||
2019 | 91,740 | 0.62 | 1 / 450
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32 | Opposition |
Lviv Oblast Council
Year | Popular vote | % of popular vote | Overall seats won | Seat change | Government |
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See also
Notes
References
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- ^ Civil movement "Chesno"(25 May 2020) (in Ukrainian)
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- ^ a b "EPP Political Assembly remains committed to Spitzenkandidat process; welcomes new Ukrainian parties". epp.eu. 4 June 2019. Retrieved 4 June 2019.
- ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Депутатські фракції і групи VII скликання Deputy fractions and Groups, Verkhovna Rada official website
- ^ Poroshenko and Yatsenyuk’s parties maneuver for lead role in coalition, Kyiv Post (29 October 2014)
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People's Front 0.33% ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with all ballots counted in Ukraine elections - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
Poroshenko Bloc to get 132 seats in parliament - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014) - ^ a b CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections, Ukrinform (26 July 2019)
(in Russian) Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019, Ukrainska Pravda (21 July 2019) - ^ History Archived 6 March 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Self Reliance New York F.C.U.
About us Archived 6 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine. UKRAINIAN SELFRELIANCE OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA FEDERAL CREDIT UNION. - ^ Samopomich NGO samopomich.org
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- ^ (in Ukrainian) В Міністерстві юстиції зареєстровано партію «Самопоміч» Zik.ua, 3 January 2013
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- ^ (in Ukrainian) «Самопоміч» оприлюднила виборчий список у Київраду zaxid.net, 21 April 2014
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- ^ Poroshenko Bloc candidates leading in 64 single-seat constituencies - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (27.10.2014)
- ^ a b Dear Deputies (partology). Hromadske.tv. 9 February 2015
- ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Berezyuk Pavlenko no longer represents the "Self", Ukrainska Pravda (4 February 2016)
- ^ Rada supports coalition-proposed government lineup, Interfax-Ukraine (2 December 2014)
Rada approves new Cabinet with three foreigners, Kyiv Post (2 December 2014)
(in Ukrainian) Rada voted the new Cabinet, Ukrainska Pravda (2 December 2014) - ^ Five political forces sign coalition agreement, Interfax-Ukraine (21 November 2014)
Ukraine's parliamentary parties initial coalition agreement, Interfax-Ukraine (21 November 2014) - ^ "Новини | Українська правда".
- ^ "Ukraine crisis: Deadly anti-autonomy protest outside parliament". BBC News. 31 August 2015.
- ^ Mayors of Mykolayiv, Ivano-Frankivsk become known after elections, Ukrinform (16 November 2015)
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- ^ Samopomich pulls out from ruling coalition in parliamen, Interfax-Ukraine (18 February 2016)
(in Ukrainian) "Self" comes from the coalition, Ukrainska Pravda (18 February 2016) - UNIAN (18 April 2016)(14 April 2016)
(in Ukrainian) Spring transplantation: Prime Groisman and without a coalition Cabinet, Ukrainska Pravda - ^ "Difficulties of ambition. Why young politicians can not agree on a single party". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 4 July 2016. Retrieved 5 August 2017.
- ^ Lviv mayor to run for president, LB.ua (3 October 2018)
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- ^ "Sadovyi withdraws from presidential race in favor of Hrytsenko". www.unian.info. Retrieved 1 March 2019.
- ^ (in Ukrainian) Results of the presidential election in 2019. The first round, Ukrainska Pravda (31 March 2019)
- ^ (in Ukrainian) "Samopomich" leaves 5 more people's deputies, Ukrainska Pravda (8 May 2019)
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- ^ "Єдиний кандидат від Самопомочі пройшов до Ради".
- ^ (in Ukrainian) The CEC showed the top 10 parties that won the most seats in the election, Ukrainska Pravda (18 November 2020)
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- ^ (in Ukrainian) The TEC officially announced Sadovy's victory in Lviv, Ukrainska Pravda (25 November 2020)
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- ^ a b c Looking West: Lviv Models Itself As Ukraine's Future, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (23 October 2015)
External links
- Media related to Samopomich at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website (in Ukrainian and English)
- Party "Samopomich" on Facebook