“Not the party took the power, and the power took party”. Anatoly Matvienko's told by it at congress NDP these words, as well as possible reflect for a long time the predicted ending of internal opposition of two polar points of view on a way of political self-preservation of People's democratic party. Natural selection in the politician - a thing not less severe, than in the nature. The strongest should survive. Matvienko considers, that having made decision to support Leonid Kuchma, NDP is doomed to be absorbed SDPU () and it “is expected by a role to serve surkisam and volkovym”. The leader of incorporated social democrats Victor Medvedchuk already now anticipates, as its today's opponents “after elections will ask in SDPU (”. However, the new helmsman of national democrats Valery Pustovoytenko is intended not looking on what “to work over consolidation of reformatory forces round a kernel which should become NDP, for the statement of a coalition within the limits of association"Zlagoda". Both democratic parties have joined in a pre-election marathon which for them has the general name “race for the leader”.
Possibilities to save NDP from split existed. The biggest friend to a part of a party management oppositional to the president Evgenie Kushnaryov suggested colleagues to refrain from radical steps, having agreed to differ inner-party opposition that would save party from “negative consequences”. On what funnyman Vladimir Filenko has minded, that “to create a democratic platform of twice democratic party absolutely illogically”. Divorce has taken place. Anatoly Matvienko has constrained the word, having resigned of the chairman and having screwed together a party badge right after how congress has made the decision to put forward the candidate for Leonid Kuchma's presidents. He declared motives of this act repeatedly, to repeat them once again there is no sense. In this case, considers one of matvienkovtsev Alexander Emets, “Kuchma or not Kuchma is a question not of that. The question in that to be or not to be parties”.
Loss NDP of collective “public politicians”, the advanced group of ten active members in which structure, except Anatoly Matvienko, also Vladimir Filenko, Taras Stetskiv, Alexander Emets, Konstantin Sytnik, Arthur Bilous and other founders of party, is much more serious blow, than can seem at first sight. All these people appeared in the beginning of party list NDP on parliamentary elections and, accordingly, are fraction NDP basis in the Supreme Rada, taking according to a party quota of a place in many key committees (concerning legal reform, to foreign affairs, freedom of speech etc.) . The reference to the dissenter with the request began not casually first reaction to an outcome of opposition from party to combine from itself as well deputy powers. The reference, it is necessary to note, exclusively moral property as legally in the party charter procedure of collecting of mandates at the excluded is not provided. Certainly, to leave deputy badges at the same time with party oppositionists are not going to and will actually remain intrafractional opposition, “undermining from within” with such love vzlelejannuju Valery Pustovoytenko fraction. Named by Anatoly Matvienko “conceived in a grey building of Ministry the simple mechanism of maintenance of the progovernmental majority in the Supreme Rada”, it and remains today for the prime minister a subject of all-round care. He asserts, that is going to even “to meet all a darkness who has for various reasons left in due time fraction, and to begin negotiations about their returning” (the day before the part of national democrats has passed, in particular, in fraction “Revival of regions”). Opponents assume, that now it is extremely necessary for prime minister to have possibility to show to the president against pre-election regress in relations between legislative and an executive power the influence in parliament and active support from deputies of own legislative initiatives.
One more negative moment for party is finding by it together with the high-ranking chairman of the formal status of "party in power" against actually increasing separation from real levers of the power. In regions many for themselves have solved for a long time already, what party in the country now perspektivnee. According to some information, many local organisations by leaps and bounds growing SDPU () are created by people with party membership cards NDP in a pocket. NDP remained political (instead of nomenclature!) force until party membership of the prime minister and other representatives of the higher echelons of power had formal character and as Anatoly Matvienko is distressed, “Valery Pustovoytenko did not consult about the cardinal actions with politispolkomom”. Having lost independent politicians, NDP has turned to “a political wing of the government” with four with superfluous in thousand workers of an executive vertical in the basis. Government change will mean for it an instant collapse.
At last, 33 voices (a quarter of delegates) against Kuchma's nominee at congress propravitelstvnnoj parties are all the same very painful blow on the prime minister. And though Valery Pustovoytenko names such result quite normal, specifying that “the party leadership counted on 30-35 % of voices against this nominee, instead of 25 %” have voted for it only, it is possible to assume presence in souls of the majority of national democrats of severe torments. There would pass voting by such fatal question as it is accepted everywhere, in the closed mode, and already hardly it would be possible to consider its result predetermined. At least there is more than half of delegates first have categorically expressed for the closed mode, and to grey cardinal NDP Anatoly Tolstouhovu then costed big efforts to introduce in party numbers an order. Actually NDP has shown the inconsistency as the basic political support of the president in present conditions and Leonid Kuchma has the full moral right to consider, that “such do not take in cosmonauts”.
() it is possible to consider party forum SDPU as a direct opposite to congress NDP. In a hall - monolithic numbers and full unanimity. Scarlet colour of party membership cards amicably soaring at votings instal nostalgia. 288 from 293 delegates - for Kuchma's nominee. Four - against, but also those only therefore, as consider what be better Kuchma Medvedchuk can only. The soul of the president can be glad only to such strong support. Structures SDPU () grow and shirjatsja. The party management promises, hundred soon does not remain in the country of any settlement where the hand of social democracy with a red rose in a fist has not reached. Victor Medvedchuk asserts, that for today in Ukraine operates almost 600 city and regional organisations of party, its constantly replenishing number already has passed for 900 thousand, confidently catching up with communists.
Management SDPU () considers, what not it it is necessary to name business party, but the fact there is that it is party “successful businessmen”. These people precisely know, that can lose, and that else wish to get. To sneer at program theses - business not grateful. In own way they are right, they too workers, their capitals too need to be protected socially, as a basis for development of small and average business. They too for liberalism, but crediting of the enterprises - business thin, it is necessary to understand whom and what for. They too for the official status of Russian - not at all are time to learn an Ukrainian language. Addressing to congress, Victor Medvedchuk, hinting on NDP, has asked a rhetorical question that will be with nomenclature party if its members to deprive of posts or to enter the standard principle of nonpartisanship of the higher echelons of power. The occasion to irony at it is, the competing party bypassed on abrupt pre-election turn brightly shows crisis of nomenclature political system in the conditions of relative democratism of a society. SDPU () presents an example of a new, progressive method of construction of party structure "from above" not administrative zatalkivaniem officials, and voluntary familiarising wishing to fix and increase the possibilities. The promise of Leonid Kuchma confirmed at last with Victor Medvedchuk to enter in SDPU () in case the party will help it to become repeatedly the president, only has strengthened doubting confidence, that at a favorable outcome of elections social democracy has chance to become if not state, then base public ideology. In SDPU (), self-sufficient political force considering, the idea about association of democratic forces is not so popular. Speak about familiarising more.
Leonid Kuchma has not so unitary outlined a strategic problem for all loyal forces in case of the re-election - capable parliament. Many analysts see in it a hint on possible dissolution of the Supreme Rada with the subsequent radical steps on the constitutional redistribution of powers of branches of the power. Though speech can go and only about cardinal redistribution of forces in parliament on existing democratic base. In any case, powerful political support to its intentions is provided. At least, two competing influential parties are ready to substitute to it the wide shoulders. However, it is not excluded, what is it will be or one big SDPU (), or one big "Zlagoda". At all interpersonal discrepancy of interests, both parties remain structures practically identical as in the ideological plan, and the essence. In the Ukrainian variant of distinctions between social democracy and national democracy it is no more, than between concepts "society" and "people".
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