Украина Аграрлық партиясы

Agrarian Party of Ukraine

Agrarian Party of Ukraine (Аграрна партія України) is a centre right agrarian and liberal conservative political party in Ukraine, led by the former People's Deputy of Ukraine Mykhailo Poplavskyi since 12 June 2020. Formally founded in 1996, this Agrarian Party has been revived in October 2006 and was legally registered as a party by the Ministry of Justice in the November same year.

Initially Agrarian Party of Ukraine was created and registered in 1996, but soon after electing Volodymyr Lytvyn the party was renamed couple of times and now is known as the People's Party. From March 2016 until January 2018 veteran politician Roman Bezsmertnyi was one of the party leaders of the Agrarian Party of Ukraine. According to the Agrarian Party party leader Skotsyk was expelled from the party on 12 September 2018 for "actions that harm the authority and discredit the governing body of the party and the party as a whole". Deputy leader of APU's Kirovohrad regional branch, Yurii Krutko was elected as Skotsyk's successor. On 3 January 2019, Skotsyk did file documents with the Central Election Commission for registration as a candidate for the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election; claiming to do so as a candidate of the Agrarian Party. The following day the party denied this because they had expelled him. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party gained 0.51% of the national vote and no parliamentary seats. However, a self nominated member of the party, Ivan Chaikivskyi has won an election in the №165 single member district. After the election, Chaikivskyi has joined the For the Future parliamentary group, later joining the newly founded party based on the parliamentary group. Before 2020 Ukrainian local elections, the party has announced that it has elected a pop singer, No.1 in APU's list for the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Mykhailo Poplavskyi as its new leader. In the local elections itself the party has won 355 deputies (312 directly, and 43 through self nominated candidates), accounting for 0,82% of all seats available that election, losing as much as about 3000 deputies, compared to the previous local elections result.

Party describes itself as "an effective center right liberal conservative party of the European type, built on democratic principles "from the bottom up". According to the APU's website, it is a "party based on traditional spiritual, moral and legal values, inviolability of private property, limitation of state intervention, development of local self government". Party is promoting mixed economy, while also actively standing against land market, protesting against it in 2017, and publicly addressing President Volodymyr Zelensky, to refuse any law draft proposals on land market and ban the possibility to sell land to foreigners and oligarchs completely.

YearVotes %Seats won+/ Government201216,2250.08 Extra parliamentary201975,5090.52 0 Extra parliamentary