Our Land (Ukraine)

Our Land (Ukrainian: Наш край) is a 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 was one of the winners.[1] Our Land took third place with 4,375 seats[2] and 156 seats as mayors, heads of towns and villages.[3]

Our Land

Наш край
Founded23 August 2011 as Block Party
20 December 2014 as Our Land
HeadquartersKiev
IdeologyRegionalism
Political positionCentre
Colours     Blue      White
Verkhovna Rada
3 / 450
Regions
4,375 / 158,399
Website
nashkray.org

History

The party was established/registered on 23 August 2011 as "Block Party".[4][5]

The party did not participate in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary elections;[6] or the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary elections.[7]

On 20 December 2014, the party changed its name to "Our Land".[5]

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.[8][9] "Our Land" claimed in September 2015 that 62 mayors had joined the party,[8] including the mayors of Mykolaiv, Chernihiv and Mariupol.[4] Another known member of the party is member of the Ukrainian parliament (for Kharkiv) Oleksandr Feldman, who joined the party in August 2015.[10]

Management

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

Ideology and political positions

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".[4] 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".[11]

Election results

The party was one of the winners of the October 2015 Ukrainian local elections[1] and took 4,640 seats.[12] 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%.[13] In July 2016, Serhiy Shakhov won the by-elections to the Verkhovna Rada in constituency № 114 (Luhansk region) with 37.62% result.[14]

According to the results of the local elections of 2015–2019, the party entered the top five by the number of elected deputies.[15]

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 region, and Anatoliy Malakhatka became the chairman of the Malotokmach's village council in the Zaporizhia region.

The party received 30% of the votes in Mykolayiv and Chernihiv regions (32%), and almost 20% in local elections in Donetsk region.[16]

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.[17]

In local elections up to 86 OTGs (69 rural, 16 settlement, 1 city), which took place on December 22, 2019, in 21 regions of Ukraine, as well as in additional local elections - in 33 OTGs (20 rural, 13 settlement) in 17 regions 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.[18]

In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, three representatives of the party became People's Deputies of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 9th convocation: Anton Kisse, Valery Davydenko and Serhiy Shakhov.[19]

See also

References
  1. Poroshenko Bloc, Batkivschyna, Nash Kray get largest number of seats in local councils – Ukrainian Voters Committee, Interfax-Ukraine (12 November 2015)
  2. "КВУ: БПП, "Батьківщина" і "Наш край" є лідерами за кількістю обраних депутатів місцевих рад". РБК-Украина (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  3. "Підсумки виборів-2015 по партіях. Всі результати (ІНФОГРАФІКА) – Depo.ua". www.depo.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  4. (in Russian) Party "Our Land" decided to participate in the local elections in Ukraine, Interfax Ukraine (17 September 2015)
  5. (in Ukrainian) "Our Land" - Party mayors, absentees and the dictatorship holosuvalnykiv, Ukrayinska Pravda (23 October 2015)
  6. Results of the nationwide party list 2012, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  7. "Central Election Commission - 2012-2013". www.cvk.gov.ua.
  8. (in Ukrainian) "Revival" "our land": Who picks up the legacy of "regionals", BBC Ukrainian (16 September 2015)
  9. (in Ukrainian) Party of Regions: Snake return, The Ukrainian Week (2 October 2015)
  10. (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
  11. "Олександр Мазурчак: Якщо губернатори тиснуть на «Наш край», то де тут підтримка Банкової?". glavcom.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  12. "Результати місцевих виборів-2015. Найбільше втратила Самопоміч, додали Свобода й Опоблок. Висновки і прогоноз (+ІНФОГРАФІКА)". texty.org.ua (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  13. "КВУ: БПП, "Батьківщина" і "Наш край" є лідерами за кількістю обраних депутатів місцевих рад". РБК-Украина (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  14. "Шахов выиграл выборы в Раду у экс-нардепа Мошенского в Луганской области". LB.ua. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  15. "Central Election Commission of Ukraine".
  16. Цензор.НЕТ. ""Наш край" победил в Николаевской и Черниговской областях на местных выборах 18 декабря". Цензор.НЕТ (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  17. ""Наш край" у лідерах на виборах в ОТГ, - попередній підрахунок". РБК-Украина (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  18. ""Наш край" в трійці лідерів на виборах в ОТГ і перший за партсписками". РБК-Украина (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-06-11.
  19. "Рада дев'ятого скликання. Повний список депутатів нового парламенту". nv.ua. Retrieved 2020-06-11.
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