Ukraine's right-wing Svoboda Party approved on Aug. 1 its list of candidates for the parliamentary elections this fall.
Both its
closed party list of candidates and their candidates for single constituencies
included only members of Svoboda.
The party
leader, Oleh Tiahnybok, on the list is followed by Bohdan Beniuk, well known
Ukrainian theater actor, who has long been a Svoboda member. His candidacy fits
the suit of several other parties, like President Viktor Yanukovych’s Party of
Regions and Natalia Korolevska’s Ukraine Forward, that included a football player
and and a pop signer.
Half of
Ukraine’s 450-seat parliament is elected through closed party list and another
half on single mandate constituencies.
Svoboda,
which according to a recent poll conducted by the Raiting group, can muster 4.4
percent of votes that is not sufficient to pass 5 percent threshold needed to enter
the parliament through party list.
During the
party congress Tyahnybok said the party’s faction in the next parliament might
also compete for the seat of the parliament speaker, despite such low ratings.
Therefore,
the party put some of their most prominent members on single mandate districts
in Kyiv, Ternopil and Lviv, where it has most of its supporters.
Andriy
Illenko, long time Svoboda member and son of a famous Ukrainian film director,
will run for parliament in one of the districts in Kyiv.
Outspoken
ring wing radicals Iryna Farion and Yuriy Mykhalchyshyn will run in Lviv.
Tyahnybok’s brother Andriy will also run in one of the districts in the city.
Oleksiy
Kayda, head of Svoboda faction in the Ternopil Oblast council, will run for a
seat in the legislature in the city of Ternopil, where the party has overwhelming
support and whose mayor is a Svoboda member.
Svoboda also approved Serhiy Rudyk, former deputy of
controversial ex-major of Kyiv Leonid Chernovetsky, to run in Cherkasy Oblast.
The party
said they stand for ousting President Yanukovych and the government of Mykola
Azarov, fighting corruption, canceling Kharkiv Accords, which extend the base of
Russian Black Sea fleet in Crimea, as well as strengthening status of the Ukrainian language
and Ukrainian identity. They also said they will help small and medium businesses to
develop by changing tax legislation.
The
following is the first 50 candidates on the Svoboda party list:
1. Oleh
Tyahnybok
2. Bohdan
Beniuk
3. Andriy
Mokhnyk
4. Ihor
Miroshnychenko
5. Oleksandr
Shevchenko
6. Anatoliy
Vitiv
7. Oleh
Pankevych
8. Ihor
Shvayka
9. Pavlo
Kyrylenko
10.
Ihor
Yankiv
11.
Leonid
Martyniuk
12.
Ruslan
Koshulynsky
13.
Ihor
Kryvetsky
14.
Yuriy
Syrotiuk
15.
Oleh
Helevey
16.
Oleh
Syrotiuk
17.
Mykhaylo
Blavatsky
18.
Oleksandr
Myrny
19.
Andriy
Mishchenko
20.
Ruslan
Martsinkiv
21.
Oleh
Makhnitsky
22.
Valeriy
Cherniakov
23.
Eduard
Leonov
24.
Svyatoslav
Khanenko
25.
Ruslab
Zenyk
26.
Oleksiy
Furman
27.
Oleh
Bondarchuk
28.
Taras
Osaulenko
29.
Markiyan
Lopachak
30.
Halyna
Chorna
31.
Oleksiy
Buchynsky
32.
Ruslan
Andriyko
33.
Vitaly
Podlobnikov
34.
Yuriy
Noyevy
35.
Ivan
Hrynda
36.
Nazar
Horuk
37.
Svyatoslav
Borutsky
38.
Roman
Navrotsky
39.
Bohdan
Saliy
40.
Oleksandr
Romashchenko
41.
Vitaliy
Didenko
42.
Yaroslav
Kachmaryk
43.
Oleh
Havrylko
44.
Yuriy
Naumko
45.
Bohdan
Halayko
46.
Oleksandr
Semenenko
47.
Kostyantyn
Lubentsov
48.
Vitaliy
Melnychuk
49.
Stepan
Molchan
50.
Yuriy
Botnar
Kyiv Post
staff writer Yuriy Onyshkiv can be reached at [email protected]
