Verkhovna Rada of Crimea

Not to be confused with State Council of Crimea.

Verkhovna Rada of Crimea Верховна Рада Криму Верховный Совет Крыма Qırım Muhtar Cumhuriyetiniñ Yuqarı Radası Къырым Мухтар Джумхуриетининъ Йукъары Радасы
Type
Type	Unicameral
History
Founded	19 June 1991;34 years ago (1991-06-19)
Disbanded	15 March 2014;11 years ago (2014-03-15) (de facto)
Preceded by	Crimean Regional Council
Succeeded by	State Council of Crimea
Structure
Seats	100
5 80 2 5 5 3
Political groups	Following the 2010 elections: Government (80)   Party of Regions (80) Others (20)   Communist Party of Ukraine (5)   Soyuz (5)   Russian Unity (3)   Qurultai-Rukh (5)   Strong Ukraine (2)
Elections
Last election	October 31, 2010
Meeting place
Building of the Supreme Council of Crimea, Simferopol
Website
rada.crimea.ua (Archived)
Constitution
Constitution of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea Constitution of Ukraine, Chapter X, Article 136

Verkhovna Rada of Crimea or the Supreme Council of Crimea, officially the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, ^[a] is the de jure legislative body for the Autonomous Republic of Crimea of Ukraine before it was forcibly de facto dissolved following annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014.

The last election of parliament took place on 31 October 2010 (see 2010 Crimean parliamentary election) and was won by the Party of Regions and the Communist Party of Ukraine.

History

Founded in 1991, the Supreme Council of Crimea was regulated according to a legislation passed by the Ukrainian parliament on 10 February 1998. ^[1] The parliament lacked the right of initiative but was authorized to fix its own election date under the Crimean constitution. ^{[2] [3] [4]}

The way council members were elected was changed several times. From the 1998 elections, a majoritarian system^{[ which? ]} had been introduced that did not ensure the proper proportional representation of Crimean minorities in the council, especially that of Crimean Tatars.^{[ further explanation needed ] [5]}

On 27 February 2014, unidentified armed men took over the parliament and hoisted the flag of Russia over it. On 15 March 2014 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine officially de facto dissolved the parliament. ^[6] On 17 March 2014, one day before the Russian annexation of Crimea, ^[7] the unrecognized State Council of Crimea was established in place of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea. The Rada continues to exist de jure.

Last election

Main article: 2010 Crimean parliamentary election

Party		Votes	%	Seats
				Party-list	Constituency	Total
	Party of Regions	357,030	50.44	32	48	80
	Communist Party of Ukraine	54,172	7.65	5	0	5
	Qurultai-Rukh	51,253	7.24	5	0	5
	Soyuz	38,514	5.44	3	2	5
	Russian Unity	29,343	4.15	3	0	3
	Strong Ukraine	26,515	3.75	2	0	2
	Batkivshchyna	19,589	2.77	0	0	0
	Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine	12,614	1.78	0	0	0
	Party of Pensioners of Ukraine	11,133	1.57	0	0	0
	Front for Change	8,281	1.17	0	0	0
	Ukrainian Peasant Democratic Party	7,268	1.03	0	0	0
	People's Party	4,563	0.64	0	0	0
	Socialist Party of Ukraine	2,909	0.41	0	0	0
	Party of Greens of Ukraine	2,493	0.35	0	0	0
	All-Ukrainian Party "Children of War"	2,030	0.29	0	0	0
	Justice Party	1,822	0.26	0	0	0
	Greens	1,699	0.24	0	0	0
	Peasant Party of Ukraine	1,396	0.20	0	0	0
	Motherland  [ uk ]	1,395	0.20	0	0	0
	Svoboda	1,361	0.19	0	0	0
	New Politics	1,291	0.18	0	0	0
	United Centre	1,278	0.18	0	0	0
	Ukrainian Social Democratic Party	1,240	0.18	0	0	0
	Union of Left Forces	1,177	0.17	0	0	0
	Ukrainian People's Party	1,114	0.16	0	0	0
	Agrarian Party of Ukraine	980	0.14	0	0	0
	People's Power Party	934	0.13	0	0	0
	New Generation Party	904	0.13	0	0	0
	Socialist Ukraine	878	0.12	0	0	0
	Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united)	803	0.11	0	0	0
	People's Labor Union of Ukraine	745	0.11	0	0	0
	Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor"	743	0.10	0	0	0
	Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists	702	0.10	0	0	0
	Democratic Party of Ukraine	625	0.09	0	0	0
	Liberal Democratic Party of Ukraine	624	0.09	0	0	0
	Hromada	452	0.06	0	0	0
	European Party of Ukraine	432	0.06	0	0	0
Against all		57,552	8.13	–	–	–
Total		707,854	100.00	50	50	50
Valid votes		707,854	97.01
Invalid/blank votes		21,794	2.99
Total votes		729,648	100.00
Registered voters/turnout		1,522,000	47.94
Source: Government of Crimea

	Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)							Total	Vacant
	Party of Regions	Qurultai-Rukh	Soyuz	Russian Unity	Communists	Strong Ukraine	Non-affiliated
End of previous convocation	44	8	10	DNP	9	DNP	DNP	100	0
Begin	80	5	5	3	5	2	-	100	0
February 20, 2013 [8]	80	4	4	3	3	-	3	100	3
November 27, 2013 [9]	82	4	4	3	3	-	3	100	1
Latest voting share	82.0%	4.0%	4.0%	3.0%	3.0%	N/A	3.0%
Note:

1. Ukrainian: Верховна Рада Автономної Республіки Крим, romanized: Verkhovna Rada Avtonomnoï Respubliky Krym;
   Russian: Верховный Совет Автономной Республики Крым, romanized: Verkhovny Sovet Avtonomnoy Respubliki Krym;
   Crimean Tatar: Qırım Muhtar Cumhuriyetiniñ Yuqarı Radası/Къырым Мухтар Джумхуриетининъ Йукъары Радасы

Chairpersons

Regional executive committee

• Mikhail Kuzmenko (1954–1956)
• Ivan Filippov (1956–1959)
• Vladimir Druzhynin (1959–1963)
• Vladimir Druzhynin (1963–1964, industrial)
• Nikolai Moiseev (1963–1964, agrarian)
• Vladimir Druzhynin (1964–1965)
• Trofim Chemodurov (1966–1979)
• Yuri Bakhtin (1979–1985)
• Alexander Roshchupkin (1985–1989)
• Vitaly Kurashik (1989–1991)

Regional council

• Mykola Bahrov (1991–1994)
• Sergei Tsekov (1994–1995)
• Yevhen Suprunyuk (1995–1996)
• Vasily Kiselev (1996–1997)
• Anatoliy Hrytsenko (1997–1998)
• Leonid Hrach (1998–2002)
• Boris Deich (2002–2006)
• Anatoliy Hrytsenko (2006–2010)
• Vladimir Konstantinov (2010–2014)

See also

• State Council of Crimea

References

1. "On the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea" (in Ukrainian). Supreme Council. Retrieved 17 May 2006.
2. "The Crimea wants to protect majority principle". Den. 7 October 2003.
3. "Crimea prepares amendments to Constitution". ForUm. 21 January 2013. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014.
4. "Ukraine's Crimea to hold parliamentary elections on October 31". ITAR-TASS. 4 August 2010.^{[ dead link ]}
5. "Crimean Election Law and Formation of Political Climate in the Autonomy". Ucipr.kiev.ua. 28 January 2002. Archived from the original on 7 March 2014. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
6. "ВР розпустила парламент Криму" [VR dissolved parliament of Crimea] (in Ukrainian). UNIAN. 15 March 2014. Retrieved 14 December 2020.
7. "Ukraine 'preparing withdrawal of troops from Crimea'". BBC News. 19 March 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2014.
8. Composition on February 20, 2013. Supreme Council of Crimea. March 11, 2014
9. Composition on November 27, 2013. Supreme Council of Crimea. March 11, 2014

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