Nashi (political party)


Nashi, translated as Ours, is a political party in Ukraine registered February 2015. Since 2018 the party leader is Evgeny Murayev.

History

In September 2018 former members of the For life Yevhen Murayev reconstituted the party under its current name Nashi.
In a November 2018 "RATING" opinion poll the party scored 4.9%.
On 10 January 2019 the party elected party leader Murayev as their candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election. On 7 March 2019 Muraev pulled out of the election favor of Oleksandr Vilkul. He also announced that Vilkul's party Opposition Bloc - Party for Development and Peace and Nashi would soon merge. Indeed in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party joined a united party list with the political parties of Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development, Revival and Trust Deeds. In this election this list won 6 single-seat constituencies and its nationwide list won 3.23% of the votes meaning it did not overcome the 5% election barrier

Ideology

According to Ukrainian journalists and political scientists, Nashi is one of many pro-Russian parties formed on the wreckage of the now-defunct Party of Regions.