Spade (political party)

All-Ukrainian Agrarian Association "Spade"
Всеукраїнський аграрний об'єднання "заступ"
LeaderVira Ulianchenko
Founded4 May 2011
IdeologyAgrarianism[1]
Decentralization[2]
Economic nationalism[2]
Political positionLeft-wing[3]
Verkhovna Rada
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All-Ukrainian Agrarian Association "Spade" (Ukrainian: Заступ, Zastup) is a Ukrainian political party registered on 4 May 2011.[4]

Its name is an obsolete form that means "spade".[4] Zastup is also a portmanteau standing for Za Sotsialnu Trudovu Ukrainsku Perspektyvu, meaning For Social Laborious Ukrainian Perspective.

The party's former name was "People's Initiative" (Ukrainian: Народна ініціатива).[4][5] The party is led by Vira Ulianchenko, who is a former head of Ukraine's Presidential Administration.[4][6]

It participated in the 2014 election to the Verkhovna Rada.[4][7] The party won one seat when its unaffiliated candidate Valeriy Davydenko won in the 208th single-member constituency located in Bakhmach.[8] He won with 38.86% of the vote.[8] Davydenko later joined the parliamentary faction of Petro Poroshenko Bloc.[9] Davydenko was re-elected, after again a win in the 208th constituency (with 37,43% of the vote) but this time as an independent candidate, in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[10]

  1. ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2014). "Ukraine". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 12 June 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference razumkov was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Podolian, Olena (2020). The Challenge of ‘Stateness’ in Estonia and Ukraine (PDF). Sodertorn University. p. 225. ISBN 978-91-89109-12-4. ISSN 1652-7399.
  4. ^ a b c d e (in Russian) List of parties in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, ITAR-TASS (24 October 2014)
  5. ^ (in Ukrainian) Election information, DA-TA
  6. ^ Yushchenko appoints Vera Ulyanchenko as head of his secretariat, UNIAN (May 20, 2009)
  7. ^ Poroshenko Bloc candidates leading in 64 single-seat constituencies - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (27 October 2014)
  8. ^ a b Data on vote counting at precincts within single-mandate districts Extraordinary parliamentary election on 26.10.2014 Archived October 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  9. ^ "Офіційний портал Верховної Ради України". w1.c1.rada.gov.ua. Archived from the original on 2016-09-23.
  10. ^ "На 208-м округе в Черниговской области "слугу народа" Панченко опередил нардеп Давыденко".