Servant of the People

Political party in Ukraine

This article is about the political party. For the TV series, see Servant of the People (2015 TV series). For other uses, see Servant of the People (disambiguation).

Servant of the People

Слуга народу

Abbreviation| SN
Leader| Olena Shuliak[1]
President of Ukraine| Volodymyr Zelenskyy[nb 1]
Parliamentary leader| Davyd Arakhamia[2]
Founder| Ivan Bakanov[3][better source needed]
Founded| 2 December 2017 (2017-12-02)
Registered| 31 March 2018 (2018-03-31)
Preceded by| Party of Decisive Change[4][5]
Headquarters| Novoselytsʹka 7, Kyiv
Youth wing| Ze! Molodizhka
Women's wing| Ze! Women
Membership (2020 est.)| 500–1,000[nb 2]
Ideology|

* Liberalism
* Populism
* Pro-Europeanism
* Atlanticism

Political position| Centre
European affiliation| Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party[nb 3]
Colours|  Green
Verkhovna Rada|

231 / 450[8]

Regions[9]|

6,400 / 43,122

Website
sluga-narodu.com

* Politics of Ukraine
* Political parties
* Elections

Servant of the People (Ukrainian: Слуга народу, romanized: Sluha narodu, Ukrainian pronunciation: [slʊˈɦɑ nɐˈrɔdʊ]; SN) is a liberal, centrist, pro-European political party in Ukraine. Since both the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election and the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, it has been the ruling political party in Ukraine. It is best known for being the political party of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The party is named after the popular Ukrainian TV series Servant of the People,[10][11] in which Zelenskyy played a fictional Ukrainian president.

It was formed in late 2017 and was officially registered on 31 March 2018 on the basis of the previously registered Party of Decisive Changes.[12][13][11] In the 2019 parliamentary election the party won 124 seats on the nationwide party list and 130 constituency seats.[14]

## History

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### Founding

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The Servant of the People party is the successor of the Party of Decisive Change (Ukrainian: Партія рішучих змін, romanized: Partiia rishuchykh zmin)[4][5] that existed since April 2016 and was founded by Eugene Yurdiga.[15]

The party was renamed in December 2017 after the eponymous Ukrainian hit TV series Servant of the People that starred Volodymyr Zelenskyy and was made by his TV production company Kvartal 95.[10][11] The rebranded/renamed party's first leader was the CEO of Kvartal 95 Ivan Bakanov.[13][10] At the time Kvartal 95 created the party, they claimed it was important to do so to prevent others from stealing the name of the eponymous series for "cynical political purposes".[4] According to Zelenskyy, in the summer of 2017, "some rogues" had almost registered a party called "Servant of the People" and that because of this Kvartal 95 had registered their Servant of the People party so voters would not be misled to think they would vote for a party that was not related to the TV series of the same name.[15] Early in 2018, Zelenskyy stated that the party was "not yet a political project", and said about its future: "Let's see".[15]

Former logo of Servant of the People

In December 2017, 4% of Ukrainians polled by the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation and the Razumkov Center declared their readiness to vote for a party named "Servant of the People" in parliamentary elections, and in May 2018 this number had grown to 5% (the minimum necessary to pass Ukraine's election threshold).[15] When democracy watchdog Chesno tried to contact Zelenskyy and party representatives in September 2018 in an attempt to ask if the party would take part in elections, a spokeswoman for Kvartal 95 responded "Unfortunately, party representatives are unable to comment on your request. There is currently no information that might be of interest to you."[15] The press service of Kvartal 95 could not provide Chesno a picture of party leader Bakanov.[15] Chesno was able to find out that the leadership of the party only consisted of people related to Kvartal 95.[15]

Billboards advertising "Servants of the People" appeared on the streets of Ukrainian cities in November 2018.[16] Zelenskyy later admitted that these billboards were legally only advertising the third season of the TV series "Servant of the People" but were also part of his election campaign so his campaign could "save a lot of money".[16] The party's first financiers were either NGO's that did not have to report the origins of their donations or companies that all changed their addresses in the same week, leading Chesno to believe that these companies were interconnected.[16] Almost all of the 2018 funds were received on the eve of Zelenskyy's 2019 New Year's speech in which he announced his candidacy in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.[16]

### Party winning the 2019 presidential and parliamentary election

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy votes in 2019.

In late December 2018, Zelenskyy was declared a presidential candidate from the party at the 2019 presidential election.[17] While lagging behind in January 2019, Zelenskyy began to lead the polls by March.[18] He would go on to win the first round of the presidential elections, taking first place and moving on to the run off against incumbent President Poroshenko on 21 April 2019,[19] winning the election with over 73% of the votes cast.[20] Zelenskyy stated that the party would enter a coalition government with neither the Petro Poroshenko Bloc nor Opposition Platform — For Life.[21]

In his inauguration speech to parliament on 20 May 2019, President Zelenskyy dissolved parliament and decreed an early election to be held on 21 July 2019.[22] On 27 May 2019 Dmytro Razumkov was appointed as party chairman in place of Ivan Bakanov.[23] Oleksandr Kornienko had been made head of the party's election headquarters, and Mykhailo Fedorov was installed as the party's chief of digital strategies.[23] On 2 June 2019, the registration of potential candidates to run for the party in majority constituencies during the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election ended.[24] Party leader Razumkov assured on 7 June 2019 that no incumbent MPs would be on the party list for the 2019 parliamentary election, but that the election list would consist of "new ambitious politicians".[25]

Pre-election concert held for a Servant of the People parliamentary candidate

The party held its first congress on 9 June 2019.[26] It took place in Kyiv's Hryshko National Botanical Garden and was attended by President Zelenskyy and party leader Razumkov, among others. During the congress, the first names of the party's majority constituency candidates and the 97 candidates of the nationwide closed party list were made public.[27] Well-known names in the nationwide party list were: Olympic athletes Olha Saladukha, Vadym Gutzeit, Zhan Beleniuk and long-term CEO of 1+1 Media Group Oleksandr Tkachenko.[27] Three days later, Gutzeit and two other candidates had withdrawn themselves from the election, whilst a fourth was excluded from the list "after additional checks".[28][29] During the post-primaries, press and activists highlighted the most controversial representatives of the party, such as Oleksandr Dubinsky and Max Buzhanskiy.[citation needed] Neither of them were withdrawn from the final list of the party after the registration deadlines.[30][nb 4] The party excluded seven candidates from its list on 7 July 2019; five candidates were removed "as a result of information submitted [to the party] via the website and chat bot", whilst two others requested to be removed from the list, including the No. 31 candidate.[32] On 19 July 2019, the leader of the Movement of New Forces party Mikheil Saakashvili called on his supporters to vote for the Servant of the People party at the parliamentary election.[33]

In the (21 July) 2019 parliamentary election, the top ten party candidates[34] were Dmytro Razumkov, Ruslan Stefanchuk, Iryna Venediktova, Davyd Arakhamia, Halyna Yanchenko, Mykhailo Fedorov, Oleksandr Kornienko, Anastasia Krasnosilska, Oleksandr Tkachenko and Zhan Beleniuk.[35] In the election the party won 124 seats on the nationwide party list (43.16% of the votes) and 130 constituency seats.[14] Several members of the political party UKROP (a party that has openly been supported by Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskyi) won constituency seats as candidates for Servant of the People (the two parties had no formal allegiance).[36] In parliament, Davyd Arakhamia became the party's faction leader.[37]

### Party since winning the 2019 parliamentary election

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On 11 November 2019, Oleksandr Korniyenko replaced Razumkov as party chairman.[38]

The party won about 25% of the votes in December 2019 local United territorial community elections (non-aligned candidates gained 44% of the votes).[39]

In June 2020, the party started to create its local organisation by appointing "cell leaders".[6] In May 2020 the party had no official registered local branch.[6][nb 5]

In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections, the party won more seats than the other parties participating, 17.59% of local seats were won by the party.[41] In total, the party nominated more than 23,000 candidates for local councils.[42] Observers pointed out that the party (as other national parties) did suffer setbacks in Ukraine's largest cities across the country, including the capital Kyiv.[43][44] In Kyiv, the party's mayoral candidate Iryna Vereshchuk and the party itself finished in fifth place.[45][46] This was despite the fact that in the 2019 parliamentary election Servant of the People was the most popular party among Kyivites with 36.46%.[47] 225 Servant of the People candidates (30.74% of all elected mayors nominated by a political party) were elected village, town or city mayors.[48] Independent candidates won 661 mayoral elections.[48] Although the party had not allowed incumbent MPs but only "new ambitious politicians" to be their candidate in the 2019 parliamentary election,[25] in the 2020 Ukrainian local elections Servant of the People candidates were incumbent mayors and local council members and (other) former members of Party of Regions, Batkivshchyna, Petro Poroshenko Bloc and other political parties.[49] In elections held in places with a population of less than 10,000 voters, the party won two seats.[50]

In the spring of 2021, the party created a youth wing called "Ze! Molodizhka" ("Ze! Youth").[51]

The party did not nominate a candidate for the October 2021 snap mayoral election in Kharkiv (the second-largest city of Ukraine[52]).[53]

From 2019 to October 2021 nine deputies had been expelled from the faction and Dmytro Razumkov did not return to the faction after his removal from post as Chairman of parliament on 7 October 2021.[54][55] (Razumkov was replaced by Servant of the People member Ruslan Stefanchuk.[56]) [57] Early November 2024 the party had a faction of 233 people's deputies left of the 254 seats that they had won in the 2019 parliamentary election.[57][14]

According to research published by NGO Chesno on 12 November 2024 in 14% of all votes the party secured on its own the votes.[57] Chesno found that the unity in voting among the party MP's began to decline rapidly after the March 2020 installation of the Shmyhal Government.[57] Online newspaper Ukrainska Pravda stated in December 2021 that the party de facto had no majority in parliament anymore since it could only rely on 210 of its deputies during important votes, while any bill required 226 votes to pass.[54] Following the February 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine (and until November 2024) Chesno found only 16 votes where 226 (or more) party members voted "for".[57] The last time being in February 2023.[57]

On 28 February 2022, the party was granted affiliate status by the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party.[58]

## Ideology and position

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It is positioned in the centre on the political spectrum,[59][60][61] while its political ideology has been described as populist[62][63][64] and liberal.[65] It has been described as a valence populist party.[66]

On 23 May 2019, Ruslan Stefanchuk, Zelenskyy's representative in the Verkhovna Rada, announced that the party had chosen libertarianism as its core ideology.[67] On 3 June 2019, however, the head of the party's election office Oleksandr Kornienko claimed, "go 20km or 100km out of Kyiv, and nobody will understand the issue of ideology there, who is right, left or centre here. The party will have its manifesto on its website, it will explain everything."[68] After Kornienko was elected as head the party in early November 2019, he stated that the then party ideology of "libertarianism"[69] would be changed, which was "needed to find a compromise within the party".[70] He claimed that the new party ideology "will be something between liberal and socialist views".[70] At the February 2020 Party Congress, Kornienko stated that the party's ideology is "Ukrainian centrism".[71] According to him, this is an ideology that "denies political extremes and radicalism. But it is creative centrism."[71]

In the election program for the 2019 parliamentary election, the party stated, "we will introduce the most favored regime for foreign investors of Ukrainian origin."[72] It also promised to introduce "a mechanism for withdrawing deputies who have lost the confidence of the voters".[72] The program also puts forward a number of direct democracy and anti-corruption proposals.[72][73][74] The party has also vowed to expand Ukraine's cooperation with the European Union and NATO.[72][75] The party also claimed that its key goal is to achieve a higher than average European income and quality of life for Ukrainians.[72][nb 6]

In early July 2019, Ruslan Stefanchuk, number two in the party's election list, expressed his belief that Ukrainian language should be promoted (in a process of the so-called "Ukrainization") but only "quite mildly" and that "one needs to fight for the language to provide quality. Neither by bans, nor by persecution, but only by equality. When Ukrainian language content becomes more interesting and higher quality, then we will absolutely have another attitude. Meanwhile, the state should work out all mechanisms for that", he said.[77]

## Electoral performance

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### Verkhovna Rada

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Results of the 2019 Verkhovna Rada elections Election | Party leader  | Performance  | Rank  | Government

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Votes | % | ± pp | Seats | +/–
2019 | Dmytro Razumkov | 6,307,793  |

43.16%

| New  |

254 / 450

| New  | 1st | Majority

### Presidential elections

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Election | Candidate  | First round  | Second round  | Result

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Votes | % | Votes | %
2019 | Volodymyr Zelenskyy | 5,714,034  |

30.24%

| 13,541,528  |

73.22%

| Elected Y

## Notes

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1. ^ Formally an independent, but closely associated with SN.
2. ^ According to party leader Oleksandr Kornienko in May 2020.[6] He also stated that a third of the party's parliamentary faction was a member of the party.[6]
3. ^ Servant of the People delegates to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe instead sit with the European Conservatives, Patriots & Affiliates.[7]
4. ^ On 21 June 2019 Ukrainian media reported that a businessman who had been a suspect in various embezzlement cases was a candidate for the party in a majority constituency.[31]
5. ^ Party leader Oleksandr Kornienko stated, in a September 2020 interview, that in March–April local branches had been planned to be created but that this was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.[40] Kornienko also claimed that "the real party building will begin after the October 2020 local elections with those who will win them."[40]
6. ^ In an interview in April 2019, party leader Zelenskyy stated that he supported the free distribution of medical cannabis, was a supporter of free abortion in Ukraine and would like to see the legalisation of prostitution and gambling in Ukraine.[21] He spoke out against the legalization of weapons.[21] None of these ideas were to be found in the party election program for the 2019 parliamentary election.[72] The program instead promises to legally regulate the right to own weapons.[76]

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## External links

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* Official website Archived 22 July 2019 at the Wayback Machine
* Taras Klochko. Servant of the People. How Stalin helps Zelenskyy to take over the power (Слуга народа. Как Сталин помогает Зеленскому брать власть). Delovaya Stolitsa. 13 July 2019.
* David Kohan. The picture "Stalin – Servant of the People" appeared to be a fake (Картинка "Сталин - слуга народа" оказалась фейком). Fakeoff. 20 July 2019.

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Political parties in Ukraine (list)

Official factions|

* Servant of the People (240)
* European Solidarity (27)
* Batkivshchyna (24)
* Holos (20)
* For the Future (20)

Parliamentary groups|

* Platform for Life and Peace (25)
* Smart Politics (25, inside SN)
* Dovira (18)
* Restoration of Ukraine (18)
* Justice (11, inside Holos)

Parties without
faction status|

* Svoboda (1)
* Self Reliance (1)
* Andriy Baloha's Team (1)
* Bila Tserkva Together (1)

Parties with
regional
representation|

* Servant of the People (305)
* European Solidarity (283)
* Batkivshchyna (193)
* For the Future (183)
* Svoboda (50)
* Kernes Bloc — Successful Kharkiv (46)
* Our Land (43)
* Ukrainian Strategy of Groysman (40)
* Proposition (35)
* UDAR (30)
* Radical Party (27)
* Dovira (22)
* Native Home (19)
* Cherkashchany (18)
* Svitlychna Bloc — Together! (17)
* Strength and Honor (16)
* Holos (16)
* Vilkul Bloc – Ukrainian Perspective (16)
* Unity of Oleksandr Omelchenko (14)
* Symchyshyn's Team (13)
* We Have to Live Here (13)
* Agrarian Party (12)
* Native Zakarpattia (12)
* Trust the Deeds (11)
* Community Platform (10)
* For Tangible Solutions (10)
* Power of the People (9)
* Volodymyr Buryak — United (9)
* Self Reliance (9)
* Native City (9)
* United Alternative (9)
* Party of Hungarians (8)
* Andriy Baloha's Team (7)
* Ukrainian Galician Party (7)
* People's Movement of Ukraine (6)
* Party of Shariy (6)
* People's Control (6)
* Volodymyr Saldo Bloc (5)

Other parties|

* 5.10
* Aktsent
* Brotherhood
* Christian Democratic Union
* Civil Position
* Conscience of Ukraine
* Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists
* Democratic Alliance
* Democratic Axe
* Democratic Party
* DIYA
* European Party
* For Ukraine!
* Hromada
* Internet Party
* Justice Party
* Labour Ukraine
* Liberal Democratic Party
* Liberal Party of Ukraine
* Liberty
* Motherland Defenders Party
* Movement of New Forces
* National Corps
* New Life
* New Politics
* One Rus
* Our Ukraine
* Party of Greens
* Party of Free Democrats
* Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
* Party of Pensioners
* People Bloc
* People's Democratic Party
* People's Front
* People's Party
* Pirate Party
* Political Party of Small and Medium-sized Businesses
* Reasonable Force
* Republican Christian Party
* Republican Platform
* Revival
* Right Sector
* Social-Christian Party
* United Social Democratic Party
* Solidarity of Women
* Spade
* Strong Ukraine
* Third Ukrainian Republic
* National-Democratic Association "Ukraine"
* Ukraine – Forward!
* Ukraine is Our Home
* Ukraine United
* Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform
* Ukrainian People's Party
* Ukrainian Republican Party
* UKROP
* Union of Communists
* Volt Ukraine
* Youth Party

Banned|

* Communist Party of Ukraine
* Communist Party of Ukraine (renewed)
* Communist Party of Workers and Peasants
* Russian Bloc
* Russian Unity
* 20 March 2022
* Derzhava
* Left Opposition
* Nashi
* Opposition Bloc
* Opposition Platform — For Life
* Party of Shariy
* Progressive Socialist Party
* Socialist Party of Ukraine
* Socialists
* Union of Left Forces
* Volodymyr Saldo Bloc
* Workers Party of Ukraine (Marxist–Leninist)
* Party of Regions

* Politics of Ukraine
* Politics portal

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Parties|

| Member parties (EU)|

* NEOS
* Open Vld
* MR
* HNS
* HSLS
* IDS/DDI
* Glas
* Centar
* Fokus
* EDI/Ε.ΔΗ.
* DiPa/ΔηΠα
* B
* V
* RE
* Kesk./C
* RKP/SFP
* PR
* UDI
* FDP
* Liberálisok
* Momentum
* FF
* A
* +E
* RI
* LDE
* TK
* LA
* Par!
* LP
* LS
* DP
* D66
* VVD
* Nowoczesna
* IL
* USR
* PS
* C's
* C
* L

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Member parties (non-EU)|

* ACC!Ó
* PLA
* ANC/ՀԱԿ
* BA/ԼՀ
* Müsavat
* PFP/ПСП
* NS
* RP/რპ
* FD/თდ
* SA/სა
* Lelo/ლელო
* Girchi-MF/გირჩი-მთ
* Droa/დროა
* Viðreisn
* AKR
* PDK
* PL
* CUB
* LPCG
* LDP/ЛДП
* V
* RPR-PARNAS/РПР-ПАРНАС
* Yabloko/Я́блоко
* PSG
* FDP/PLR
* glp/pvl
* EPU/ЄПУ
* CP/ГП
* SL/СЛ
* SN/СН
* Holos/Голос
* Alliance
* Lib Dems
* Libs

Party Presidents|

* Gaston Thorn
* Willy De Clercq
* Colette Flesch
* Willy De Clercq
* Uffe Ellemann-Jensen
* Werner Hoyer
* Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck
* Graham Watson
* Hans van Baalen

European Parliament
Group Presidents|

* Yvon Delbos
* René Pleven
* Cornelis Berkhouwer
* Jean Durieux [fr]
* Jean-François Pintat
* Martin Bangemann
* Simone Veil
* Valery Giscard d'Estaing
* Yves Galland
* Gijs de Vries
* Pat Cox
* Graham Watson
* Guy Verhofstadt
* Dacian Cioloș
* Stéphane Séjourné
* Valérie Hayer
* see European Parliament

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European Commissioners
(2024–2029)|

* Kaja Kallas (Vice-President and High Representative)
* Michael McGrath (Democracy, Justice, and the Rule of Law)
* Hadja Lahbib (Preparedness, Crisis Management, and Equality)
* see Von der Leyen Commission II

Heads of government
at the European Council|

* Alexander De Croo (Belgium)
* Kristen Michal (Estonia)
* see European Council

Affiliated organisations|

* European Liberal Youth (LYMEC)
* European Liberal Forum

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