The founders of the all-Ukrainian association of leftist and
left-centrist political parties and non-governmental organizations called Left
Opposition recently held a founding assembly in Kyiv at the Communist Party's
initiative, the Communist Party reported on its official website on Monday.
Taking part in the assembly were the leaders and
members of five political parties and 13 NGOs.
The participants adopted a resolution on setting up
the association and endorsed the text of its manifesto, declaring "the
consolidation of efforts for Ukraine's salvation and the protection of our
compatriots' rights to peace, wellbeing, and security."
The association will focus on a peaceful resolution of
the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine based on the implementation of the Minsk
agreements and the decentralization of the governance system. To overcome the
crisis in Ukraine, the Left Opposition will insist on introducing a
socioeconomic governance model, renationalizing strategic enterprises, and
creating new jobs.
The Left Opposition also intends to demand that the
Russian language be granted official status.
The participants in the founding assembly put together
the association's coordinating council. Communist Party leader Petro Symonenko,
its members Heorhiy Kriuchkov and Valeriy Soldatenko, Progressive Socialist
Party leader Natalia Vitrenko, and Union of Left Forces political council
member Rudolf Povarnitsyn were elected its co-chairs.
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