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Our Land (Ukraine)

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Our Land
Наш край
LeadersOleksandr Mazurchak
Anton Kisse
Serhii Shakhov
Founded23 August 2011 as Block Party
20 December 2014 as Our Land
Banned19 June 2024 (2024-06-19)
Preceded byParty of Regions (partial; from 2014)
HeadquartersKyiv
IdeologySocial democracy[1][2]
Regionalism[3]
Decentralization
Russophilia[4]
Political positionCentre-left
Colours  Blue   White
Party flag
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Our Land (Ukrainian: Наш край, romanized: Nash krai) is a banned political party in Ukraine, founded on 23 August 2011, under the name "Bloc Party". In 2014, it was renamed as "Our Land". In the October 2015 Ukrainian local elections the party took third place[5] with 4,375 seats[6] and 156 seats as mayors, heads of towns and villages.[7] In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections the party gained 1,694 seats.[8]

History

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Our Land billboard in Kyiv during the 2020 local elections

The party was established/registered on 23 August 2011 as "Block Party".[9][10]

The party did not participate in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary elections;[11] or the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary elections.[12]

On 20 December 2014, the party changed its name to "Our Land".[10]

By the summer of 2015 the majority of representatives of the party changed dramatically, encompassing individuals who still in 2014 were members of the Party of Regions.[13][14] "Our Land" claimed in September 2015 that 62 mayors had joined the party,[13] including the mayors of Mykolaiv, Chernihiv and Mariupol.[9] Another known member of the party is member of the Ukrainian parliament (for Kharkiv) Oleksandr Feldman, who joined the party in August 2015.[15]

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party took part in only one single-mandate constituency.[16] Its candidate Dmytro Khomiak received 0.10% of the vote in constituency 95 located in Irpin and was thus not elected to parliament.[17]

In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections 1,694 Our Land candidates won seats on the local and regional level, about 5.13% of the total number of contested seats.[8]

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, many members of the Our Land party, including local politicians, cooperated with the Russian Armed Forces in the occupied territories.[18][19][20][21][22]

In June 2022, the leaders of the Our Land party were detained by the SBU for attempting to sell places on the electoral list.[23]

On 19 June 2024, the party was banned in Ukraine by the final decision of the Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal. The property, funds and other assets of the party and its cells and other structural entities were transferred to state ownership.[24]

Management

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The party is headed by three party leaders, all of whom were members of the Party of Regions until 2014: Oleksandr Mazurchak, Anton Kisse, and Serhii Shakhov.

Ideology and political positions

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Agitation billboard of the party Our Land during 2020 Ukrainian local elections.

The party claims its main interest is "defense of the interests of local communities" and claims this is necessary because "the central government takes into account the interests of the community last".[9] The public image of the party has three components: a team of experienced professionals, primarily local managers; disinterest in political games and ideological disputes; party core - regional centers focused on the development of their "small homelands".[25]

Maria Karmazina, a political scientist of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, IPIEND, believes that the existence of the "Our Land" party, which has become an ideological follower of the pro-Russian Party of Regions, is a serious challenge for Ukrainian statehood, since members of this party are prone to anti-Ukrainian or anti-state actions.[26] Political analyst Denys Kazanskyi calls the party "Our Land", together with the Opposition Bloc, a conditionally anti-Maidan party,[27] and political scientist Viktor Bobirenko identifies the party's orientation as pro-Russian, pointing out that their voters do not like Russia as an aggressor, nor the West and NATO.[28] According to political scientist Vadym Karasyov, in fact, the "Our Land" party is not pro-Russian; instead, according to Karasyov, in 2020 the party became the object of undeserved criticism and accusations of pro-Russianness by political competitors in order to reduce its rating.[29] Despite its roots from the pro-Russian Party of Regions, Our Land has supported Ukrainian military action against the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.[30]

Election results

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Local councils

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The number of deputies from "Our land" in the oblast councils, 2015
Election Performance Rank
% ± pp Seats +/–
2015
2.87%
 New
4,501 / 158,399
 New 3rd
2020
4.46%
 Increase 1.59
1,894 / 42,501
 Decrease 2,652 7th

Verkhovna Rada

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Year Popular vote % of popular vote Overall seats won Seat change Government
2019 - -
4 / 450
 Increase 4 Opposition

The party was one of the winners of the October 2015 Ukrainian local elections[5] and took 4,640 seats.[31] According to the Committee of Voters of Ukraine, Our Land became the most productive party in terms of the ratio of elected deputies to the number of registered candidates, gaining 32.3%.[6] In July 2016, Serhiy Shakhov won the by-elections to the Verkhovna Rada in constituency No. 114 (Luhansk Oblast) with 37.62% result.[32]

According to the results of the local elections of 2015–2019, the party entered the top five by the number of elected deputies.[33]

In the first elections in the newly created united territorial communities, which took place in December 2016, 245 candidates became deputies from "Our Land".

On December 11, 89 representatives of the party from 15 OTGs became deputies. Leonid Dusha became the mayor of Baturyn in the Chernihiv Oblast, and Anatoliy Malakhatka became the chairman of the Malotokmach's village council in the Zaporizhzhia Oblast.

The party received 30% of the votes in the Mykolaiv and Chernihiv Oblasts (32%), and almost 20% in local elections in the Donetsk Oblast.[34]

In the OTG elections on June 30, 2019, the party took second place with 17.2% of seats. 127 party representatives in 25 territorial communities became deputies.[35]

In local elections up to 86 OTGs (69 rural, 16 settlement, 1 city), which took place on December 22, 2019, in 21 oblasts of Ukraine, as well as in additional local elections - in 33 OTGs (20 rural, 13 settlement) in 17 oblasts of Ukraine "Our Land" won 61 seats, which is 6.7% of all deputies elected from the parties, and took third place among the parties in the elections.[36]

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, four representatives of the party became People's Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 9th convocation: Anton Kisse, Valeriy Davydenko, Serhii Shakhov and Andrii Derkach. Davydenko was found shot dead in the bathroom of his office on 23 May 2020.[37] On 13 January 2023 Ukraine's parliament voted to strip Derkach of his position as a people's deputy.[38][39]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Election program of a political party "Our land" "12 steps for the development of the native land"
  2. ^ ADVANCED PROGRAM political parties "OUR LAND"
  3. ^ "Feldman: The main goal of the Our Land party is peace, unity and stability in Ukraine".
  4. ^ Нові партії та обмежені бюджети. Що чекає на міста після виборів
  5. ^ a b Poroshenko Bloc, Batkivschyna, Nash Kray get largest number of seats in local councils – Ukrainian Voters Committee, Interfax-Ukraine (12 November 2015)
  6. ^ a b "КВУ: БПП, "Батьківщина" і "Наш край" є лідерами за кількістю обраних депутатів місцевих рад". РБК-Украина (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  7. ^ "Підсумки виборів-2015 по партіях. Всі результати (ІНФОГРАФІКА) – Depo.ua". www.depo.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  8. ^ a b (in Ukrainian) The CEC showed the top 10 parties that won the most seats in the election, Ukrayinska Pravda (18 November 2020)
  9. ^ a b c (in Russian) Party "Our Land" decided to participate in the local elections in Ukraine, Interfax Ukraine (17 September 2015)
  10. ^ a b (in Ukrainian) "Our Land" - Party mayors, absentees and the dictatorship holosuvalnykiv, Ukrayinska Pravda (23 October 2015)
  11. ^ Results of the nationwide party list 2012, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  12. ^ "Central Election Commission - 2012-2013". www.cvk.gov.ua.
  13. ^ a b (in Ukrainian) "Revival" "our land": Who picks up the legacy of "regionals", BBC Ukrainian (16 September 2015)
  14. ^ (in Ukrainian) Party of Regions: Snake return, The Ukrainian Week (2 October 2015)
  15. ^ (in Ukrainian) Mayors of major cities joined the party "Our Land" and go to the polls, Espreso TV (4 August 2015)
    (in Ukrainian) Candidates and winner for the seat in constituency 174 in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, RBK Ukraine
    (in Russian)/(website has automatic Google Translate option) Short bio of Oleksandr Feldman, LIGA
  16. ^ "Електоральна пам'ять". ukr.vote.
  17. ^ "Електоральна пам'ять". ukr.vote.
  18. ^ The SBU stated that People's Deputy Derkach was recruited by Russian intelligence
  19. ^ The former candidate for mayor of Kharkiv continues to love Russia
  20. ^ Oleksandr Gen, the head of the Seredyna-Buda hromada in Sumy Oblast, was kept in custody for another two months
  21. ^ Law enforcement officers reported that during the occupation of the Trostyanets community, having a pro-Russian position, the deputy began to cooperate with servicemen of the armed forces of the Russian Federation.
  22. ^ Mykola Miroshnichenko will appear in court on July 1
  23. ^ "Руководители партии «Наш край» готовились к следующим выборам: требовали $2,5 млн за место в списке Верховной Рады". hromadske.ua (in Russian). 2022-06-09. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
  24. ^ "НАШ КРАЙ — Програма, Балотування, Статистика, Політична Агітація | ПолітХаб". www.chesno.org (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2024-06-19.
  25. ^ "Олександр Мазурчак: Якщо губернатори тиснуть на "Наш край", то де тут підтримка Банкової?". glavcom.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  26. ^ Марія Кармазіна. Регіональні політичні партії в Україні (1991 — початок 2018 рр.) // Наукові записки Інституту політичних і етнонаціональних досліджень ім. І. Ф. Кураса НАН України. № 1 (93) від 2018 року. 311 стор.: С. 49
  27. ^ Луна-кімната із червоними кульками
  28. ^ Політичний експерт Віктор Бобиренко: На цих виборах виграє колективний мер
  29. ^ Приписування партіям проросійської позиції на місцевих виборах в Україні використовують як "чорну" технологію - думка
  30. ^ https://nashkray.org/zbroyeyu-chy-lyudyanistyu-boronyty-ukrayinu-svyatyj-obovyazok-kozhnogo-z-nas-nash-kraj/ Archived 2023-12-02 at the Wayback Machine
  31. ^ "Результати місцевих виборів-2015. Найбільше втратила Самопоміч, додали Свобода й Опоблок. Висновки і прогоноз (+ІНФОГРАФІКА)". texty.org.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  32. ^ "Шахов выиграл выборы в Раду у экс-нардепа Мошенского в Луганской области". LB.ua. 20 July 2016. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  33. ^ "Центральна виборча комісія України - WWW відображення ІАС "Місцеві вибори 2015"". www.cvk.gov.ua.
  34. ^ Цензор.НЕТ. ""Наш край" победил в Николаевской и Черниговской областях на местных выборах 18 декабря". Цензор.нет (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  35. ^ ""Наш край" у лідерах на виборах в ОТГ, - попередній підрахунок". РБК-Украина (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  36. ^ ""Наш край" в трійці лідерів на виборах в ОТГ і перший за партсписками". РБК-Украина (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  37. ^ Ukrainian MP Valeriy Davydenko found dead in own office's restroom, UNIAN (23 May 2020)
  38. ^ "Верховная рада лишила Медведчука мандата". РБК (in Russian). 13 January 2023. Retrieved 20 June 2024.
  39. ^ "Рада дев'ятого скликання. Повний список депутатів нового парламенту". nv.ua. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
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