Party of Shariy

Party of Shariy (Ukrainian: Партiя Шарiя, Russian: Партия Шария); also sometimes referred to as the "Shariy Party", "Political Party of Shariy", or "European Bloc of Anatoly Shariy") is a political party in Ukraine led by Ukrainian journalist Anatoly Shariy.

Party of Shariy

Партiя Шарiя
LeaderAnatoly Shariy
Founded6 June 2019 (2019-06-06)
HeadquartersKharkiv
Membershipover 200,000 (as of October 10, 2019)[1]
IdeologyBig tent[2]
Conservatism
Euroscepticism
Populism
E-democracy[3][4][5][6]
Colours     Red
     White
SloganDo you like those who rule the country? — We don't.
Verkhovna Rada
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Regions
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Website
sharij.com.ua

History

On June 6, 2019, this political party was officially registered in Ukraine.[7][8] The party took part in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election. The namesake leader of the party, Shariy, as the candidate for the parliamentary election himself was denied registration by the Central Election Commission of Ukraine on the grounds that he did not meet the requirement of a term of five-year residence in the country immediately preceding the elections. Previously, Shariy was known primarily for his investigations on corruption in the police and other law enforcement agencies during the Yanukovych government and, subsequently, sought asylum in the European Union in 2012 due to libel, defamation, and alleged politically motivated persecution by Ukrainian law enforcement bodies of the time.[9][10][11] However, the party was officially registered by the Central Election Commission of Ukraine and entered into the election ballot under number 17, immediately following the Radical Party and preceding political party Holos on the list.[12] On July 2, 2019, Anatoly Shariy was registered as a candidate for parliamentary election 2019 by the Central Election Commission of Ukraine. On the next day, July 3, 2019, the decision was reverted.[13]

2019 parliamentary election performance

In the 2019 parliamentary election the party gained 327,152 votes (2.23% of total, position #10).[14] Falling under the 5% threshold, it won no parliamentary seats. The party also failed to win a constituency seat.[15]

Winning more than the threshold of 2%, it was originally subject to funding from the budget for its support. However, on 2 October 2019, the Verkhovna Rada adopted the draft law No. 1029, which deprived parties of state funding that had won less than 5 per cent of the vote.. After the adoption of this law, Party of Shariy lost about 441,511 thousand euros of state funding.[16]

Political positions and goals of the party

The immediate three goals of the political movement and its rationale as a future Ukrainian parliament party are:

  1. Cleansing of the Ukrainian political landscape and war on corruption.
  2. Providing critical assistance to the current President's party and creating a robust and efficient coalition with this political force.
  3. Total transparency and permanent control over the bodies of legislative and executive power in Ukraine.
  4. Informing the population of the country about the official and unofficial, shadow processes in Ukrainian politics.

Generally, the party stands on a number of fundamental principles shared by its members, such as:

  1. Аbsolute priority of personal dignity and human rights in Ukraine.
  2. Freedom of speech and conscience, yet the accountability of the press and public figures for libel and defamation.
  3. Direct democracy: electronic voting and cooperative decision-making.[3][4][5][6]
  4. Euro-optimism and Euro-integration.
  5. Modernization of Ukrainian society, its politics, science and technology.
  6. Economic liberalism, yet continued support to the socially neglected strata of population.

Criticism of the EU and George Soros

After Verkhovna Rada adopted neoliberal land reform laws [17], Anatoliy Shariy posted a partisan program video on his Youtube-channel, where he promoted renegotiation of conditions of IMF debt payments, while embracing sympathetic rhetoric towards Viktor Orbán eurosceptic nationalistic policies, describing EU as "an agressor, which surpresses facts about Icelandic Revolution" and alleging those, who support land reform as people who "got education and worked in financial structures of George Soros.[18] Also, in another interview, which Shariy described as "his manifesto", he stated that "IMF wants to divide Ukraine" and compared Ukraine to a "drug abuser, where loans are syringes" [19].

Party members

Apart from the leader of namesake party Anatoly Shariy, the top-10 of the Party list during the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election included:

  • Olha Shariy (Bondarenko) - Ukrainian journalist and blogger
  • Antonina Beloglazova - Ukrainian political journalist
  • Pavlo Ullakh - journalist and historian, Ph.D. in World History
  • Yevgeniy Yevtukhov (aka DJ Sender) - Ukrainian DJ, music producer, songwriter and singer; the owner of Send Records and its sublabels; the founder of the DJFM radio station
  • Ivan Mamchur - businessperson, expert in online-marketing and online education
  • Artur Talabira - journalist and reporter; theatre and movie actor[20]
  • Mykola Gladenky - political science specialist
  • Dmytro Butenko - IT-entrepreneur
  • Roman Katerinchuk - IT-entrepreneur

Antonina Beloglazova, the second person in his party collaborated in Russia in 2015-2016 with the Russian Nationalist National Liberation Movement, which aims to restoration of Russia's sovereignty. This movement has been repeatedly observed at various pro-Putin events.[21] Konstantin Mamrosenko, Beloglazova's brother, who heads the department "B" in the Party of Shariy, along with Arsen Pavlov (Motorola) took part in the seizure of the Kharkiv Regional State Administration in 2014.[22][21]

Threats and attacks

On supporters and party members

The supporters and members of the Party of Shariy were repeatedly attacked,[23][24] using physical force, a mobile phone was also broken in one of these attacks, and soon one of the attackers was identified: a certain Konstiantyn Ustyuzhin, a citizen of Ukraine. In connection with this, a statement about the attack was written and then sent to the National Police of Ukraine for further investigation.[25]

On party opponents

Journalist Andriy Kachor (Ukrainian: Андрій Качор) claims he received threats from Sharij Party supporters after the publication on his site about the burning of Sharij Party agitation materials by unknown Vinnytsia people.[26][27]

References
  1. Официальный сайт партии Анатолия Анатольевича Шария. Политическая партия Шария (ППШ)
  2. Анатолий Шарий, Jul 8, 2019: "Очень важные ссылки для сторонников"
  3. Ольга Шарий, Jul 16, 2019: "Как мы провели соцопрос"
  4. Анатолий Шарий, Jul 16, 2019: "Идея нового приложения и привет из Австрии"
  5. Приложение "Контроль!" от Партии Анатолия Шария
  6. Приложение "Отклик!" от Партии Анатолия Шария
  7. Блоггер Анатолий Шарий создал в Украине свою политическую партию
  8. "МИНЮСТ ЗАРЕГИСТРИРОВАЛ "ПАРТИЮ ШАРИЯ", NewsOne, June 6, 2019
  9. "Ukrainian journalist seeks asylum in Lithuania". khpg.org. Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KhPG). March 12, 2012. Archived from the original on September 10, 2014. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
  10. "Kyiv journalist Shariy asks for asylum in Lithuania". Kyiv Post. Public Media. March 12, 2012. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
  11. "Foreign Ministry: Ukrainian journalist Shariy detained in Amsterdam, still held at airport". Interfax-Ukraine. July 18, 2013. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved May 1, 2015.
  12. Where the parties will be in the ballot: the official list, opinionua.com
  13. "Central Election Commission withdraws Klyuev, Shariy from elections to parliament". 112.international. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  14. "Результати По багатомандатному виборчому округу" (retrieved September 11, 2019)
  15. 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, Ukrayinska Pravda (21 July 2019)
  16. Полищук, Ирина (2019-10-03). ""Партия Шария" и "Оппозиционный блок": какие партии лишились государственного финансирования". 24 Канал. Retrieved 2019-10-13.
  17. https://www.gazeta.ru/business/news/2020/03/31/n_14227951.shtml
  18. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtmhsXJOvqI
  19. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD1RxTy9x3w
  20. Artur Talabira on imdb.com
  21. "Блогер разоблачил российскую агентуру среди соратников Шария". Расследования (in Russian). Retrieved 2020-02-26.
  22. Біля запорізького Леніна «пов'язали» відомого сепаратиста «Відомий Мамросенко, ще й тим, що брав участь у захопленні Харківської ОДА разом з терористом „Моторолою“. Після чого потрапив на два місяці у СІЗО та згодом вийшов під заставу в 97 тисяч гривень».
  23. "На Майдане кандидата от партии Шария скинули с парапета" (in Russian). Шарий.net. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  24. ""Уже лежачего меня били ногами". Появились подробности нападения на журналиста "Страны" на "майдане Порошенко"". strana.ua. Retrieved 2019-07-02.
  25. Помогаем правоохранителям // Блог Анатолия Шария
  26. "Поліція відкрила справу за фактом погроз головреду "Вежі"" (in Ukrainian). IMI. Retrieved 2019-07-13.
  27. Анатолий Шарий (2019-07-12). "Так кто хотел сжечь винничан?". Retrieved 2019-07-13.
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