The bloc of leftists is planning to call for a referendum on a Common Economic Space (CES), Ukraine's attitude to NATO and the Russian language stats, Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko has said.
“We’ll definitely hold a referendum on three issues – a Common
Economic Space (CES), Ukraine’s attitude to NATO and the Russian
language status,” the party’s press service quoted him as saying on
Thursday.
Symonenko said that leftist bloc members would call for Russian to be rendered the national status in Ukraine.
As reported, the leaders of four parties – Petro Symonenko (the
Communist Party), Yuriy Zahorodniy (the Social Democratic Party of
Ukraine (united)), Stanislav Nikolayenko (the Justice Party), and Vasyl
Volha (the Union of Leftists) – signed the agreement an agreement on
creating the bloc of leftists and center-leftists at a meeting in Kyiv
on September 14.
At the same time, the leaders of the Progressive Socialist Party of
Ukraine (PSPU) and the Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) – Natalia
Vitrenko and Oleksandr Moroz – refused to join the union.
