Oleksandr Moroz

Oleksandr Moroz
Oleksandr Moroz
Oleksandr Moroz speaking in 2003.
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
In office
6 July 2006[1] – 4 December 2007
Preceded by Volodymyr Lytvyn
Succeeded by Arseniy Yatsenyuk
Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada
In office
18 May 1994[2] – 7 July 1998
Preceded by Ivan Plyushch
Succeeded by Oleksandr Tkachenko
Personal details
Born February 29, 1944 (1944-02-29) (age 67)
Buda, Taraschanskyi Raion,
Kiev Oblast,  USSR
Political party Socialist Party of Ukraine
Spouse(s) Valentina Andreevna (née Lavrinenko)[3]
Children Irina (1966)
Ruslana (1972)
Website http://www.spu.in.ua/leader.php

Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Moroz (Ukrainian: Олександр Олександрович Мороз, born 29 February 1944, in Buda, Taraschanskyi Raion of the Kiev Oblast) is a Ukrainian statesman and politician. He was the Speaker of Verkhovna Rada (parliament) of Ukraine twice: July 2006 to September 2007, and previously in 1994 through 1998. Moroz is one of the founders and leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, which was an influential political party in Ukraine. Moroz lost Parliamentary representation when the Socialist Party of Ukraine failed to secure sufficient number of votes (2.86%)in the 2007 snap election falling 0.14% short of the 3% election threshold.

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Career before the collapse of the Soviet Union

After graduating from the local school in 1960 Oleksandr Moroz graduated from the Agricultural Academy of the Ukrainian SSR becoming a mechanical engineer. Then he worked in many careers, including as a teacher and engineer for twelve years, and joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, moving from the First Secretary of local Regional Committee of the CPSU to the position of the Head of the Kiev Oblast Committee and the Oblast Trade Union Committee. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1972 to 1991.

Career from the collapse of the Soviet Union until the Orange Revolution

On 26 October 1991, he arranged the congress that formed the Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) as a successor of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine. He became a deputy of Verkhovna Rada in 1990.

Moroz ran as a presidential candidate as a nominee of the Socialist Party of Ukraine in the 1994 and 1999 elections, he came third both times, with 13.04% of the vote in 1994 and 11.29% in 1999. In 1999, many experts predicted that Moroz had a chance to defeat incumbent Leonid Kuchma in the election run-off and according to many observers the government rigged the election results[4] in favor of Petro Symonenko (of the Communist Party of Ukraine) in order to make sure that unpopular Symonenko, rather than Moroz, would compete against Kuchma in the run-off vote.

In 1996, Moroz together with several other parties prevented President Leonid Kuchma's attempt to concentrate most of the powers in the president's hands and led the parliament to adopt on 28 June the new Constitution that includes many positions close to the demands of left parties. In 1999 after signing the treaty of "Kanev Four" he became an acknowledged leader of the non-Communist opposition to Kuchma.

In 2001 Moroz at a sitting of the Verkhovna Rada made public "Mykola Melnychenko’s tapes" that alleged the involvement of the top leaders of the state (including president Kuchma) in the murder of famous independent journalist Georgiy Gongadze that provoked the political crisis in Ukraine known as the Cassette Scandal. Moroz was a member of a special board "Forum of national salvation", a representative of a Public Committee of Protection of the Constitution "Ukraine Without Kuchma" (and later "Rise, Ukraine!") in charge of negotiations with representatives of the regime.

In 2002 the Socialist Party of Ukraine (which included Yuriy Lutsenko, Josef Vinski, Mykola Rudkovski, Valentyna Semenyuk) got the fourth place in the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2002. The socialists joined the “oppositional four” a group of parties that also included Our Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko Electoral Bloc and Communist Party of Ukraine.

2004 Orange Revolution

Olexandr Moroz (First round) - percentage of total national vote
Moroz (left), with Viktor Yushchenko

In the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, Moroz was nominated by the Socialist Party of Ukraine, which he has chaired since 1991. He won third place with 5.81% of the vote. As a longtime leader of anti-Kuchma forces, Moroz quickly announced his support for Viktor Yushchenko's presidential bid against Kuchma's prime minister, Viktor Yanukovich, thus making Yushchenko the favourite to win in round two. That Yushchenko did not win despite this endorsement was used to argue that there was election fraud in the run-off. Moroz supported the subsequent Orange Revolution, the mass protests that eventually led to the annulment of the vote results and to a revote won by Yushchenko. The support of the Ukrainian socialists he brought to Yushchenko's campaign was important to widen Yushchenko's appeal to voters[citation needed]. Similarly, the votes of Moroz's Socialist party faction in Verkhovna Rada (parliament) were crucial for passing several important resolutions during the Orange Revolution, particularly the non-confidence vote in the Kuchma-Yanukovych government involved in election fraud scandal.

Political views

Since Oleksandr Moroz organized the left-centrist Socialist Party of Ukraine his party ideology largely evolved from orthodox Communism to Social democracy. He himself is a left-wing social democrat of the European type who uses both Marxist and Social democratic ideas. For this reason he met strong opposition from a more rigid wing of his party represented by the supporters of Nataliya Vitrenko. Finally, Vitrenko left the Socialist party, proclaimed the Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine and bannered Moroz as "Opportunist" and "traitor", much helping Kuchma to fight the opposition of Ukraine of which Moroz' Socialist Party was part. After the last radicals headed by Ivan Chyzh left the party and formed an organization called "Spravedlyvist" ("Justness"), Moroz was able to transform his party closer to the European Social Democratic model. Now the Socialist party led by Moroz is a member of Socialist International and had three ministers in Yuri Yekhanurov's cabinet, which ended partly because of the socialist party’s defection from the coalition.

Moroz and his party supported the political reform and Ukraine's transition towards a more European Parliamentary democracy, which shifted the power balance in Ukraine stripping the President of some of his powers in favor of the parliament. During the Orange Revolution the SPU voted for the changes to the Ukrainian constitution, changes that made Ukraine a parliamentary and not a presidential republic. This constitution, pushed by Moroz and Petro Simonenko[citation needed], went into effect in January 2006, despite Yushchenko's furious opposition[citation needed].Moroz also speaks in support of the preservation of land for Ukrainian farmers and has made many promises about resolving social problems, using socialist rhetoric. The program of his party begins with a statement that demands real democracy for working people.

2006 election as Chairman of Verkhovna Rada

Moroz was elected the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on 6 July 2006 (238 ayes, 226 needed for election) with support of the Party of Regions, SPU, and communist factions.

2007 parliamentary election

The Socialist Party of Ukraine received 2.86% of the national vote falling 0.14% below the election threshold denying them the right of representation and removing Moroz as a member of Ukraine's Parliament.

Ukrainian presidential election, 2010

The Socialist Party of Ukraine chose the party leader, Oleksandr Moroz, as their presidential candidate for the 2010 Presidential election, first-round ballot scheduled to be held on January 17, 2010. 268 out of 422 party congress delegates registered supported the Moroz's nomination.[5] During the election Moroz received 0,38% of the votes.[6]

Opinion Polls

Public Opinion Polls have not rated the Socialist Party of Ukraine or its leader Olexandr Moroz as it they were undecided as to their participation in the Ukrainian Presidential election In 2005 Moroz received 5.8% of the national vote. An Opinion polls conducted by FOM-Ukraine in April 2009 showed Moroz with less than 1% support with most analysts not considering Moroz as a serious contender as he would not win sufficient number of votes in the first-round presidential ballot, scheduled for January 17, 2010.

Bibliography

Moroz is fond of poetry and chess. He has written the following books:

  • Куди йдемо?... (Where we go?...). Kiev: Association "Postup". 1993. ISBN 5770750308. 
  • Тема для роздумів (Subject for thoughts). Kiev: Zlahoda. 1995. ISBN 5770755687. 
  • Вибір (Choice). 1996. 
  • Дорога, з якої не зійти (An unavoidable path). 1999. OCLC 58407685. 
  • Між вічними полюсами (Between permanent poles). Kiev: Parlaments'ke vydavnytstvo. 1999. ISBN 9667288935. 
  • Про землю, Конституцію і не тільки (About land, Constitution and not only). Kiev: Redaction of newspaper "Tovarysh". 2000. ISBN 966-786-400-6. 
  • Хроніка одного злочину (The chronicle of the crime). Kiev: Politrada SPU. 2001. OCLC 49307992. 
  • Політична анатомія України (Political anatomy of Ukraine). Kiev: Parlaments'ke vydavnytstvo. 2004. ISBN 9666112744. 
  • Жива стерня (Live stubble). Kiev: Parlaments'ke vydavnytstvo. 2004. ISBN 9666112736.  Recognized by international literature award named after Hryhori Skovoroda.
  • ...З відстані (...From distance). Kiev: Parlaments'ke vydavnytstvo. 2004. ISBN 9666112787. 
  • Обличчям до вогню (Facing fire). Kiev: Tomiris. 2006.  Poetry collection in Ukrainian language.
  • Белый снег на каменной террасе (White snow on stone terrace). 2006.  Poetry collection in Russian language.
  • Кують зозули. Kiev: Parlaments'ke vydavnytstvo. 2007. ISBN 9789666115679. .

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Political offices
Preceded by
Ivan Plyushch
Chairman of Verkhovna Rada
1994–1998
Succeeded by
Oleksandr Tkachenko
Preceded by
Volodymyr Lytvyn
Chairman of Verkhovna Rada
2006–2007
Succeeded by
Arseniy Yatsenyuk

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