The Eighth Court of Appeal in Lviv banned the Socialist Party of Ukraine, the Chesno movement reported.
" But the decision itself can be challenged in the Supreme Court..
As reported, the Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit to ban the activities of the Socialist Party of Ukraine to the Eighth Court of Appeal in Lviv..
The Socialist Party of Ukraine was founded in 1991 after the banning of the Communist Party.
The SPU, under the leadership of longtime leader Oleksandr Moroz, was one of the leading opposition forces under the presidency of Leonid Kuchma and played an important role in the protest movement (“Ukraine without Kuchma” and “Rise, Ukraine! " She joined the government coalition with Our Ukraine and BYuT after the Orange Revolution of 2004), but after the 2006 elections she joined the “anti-crisis coalition” with the Party of Regions and the Communist Party of Ukraine.