United Ukraine

United Ukraine (Ukrainian: Єдина Україна) was a political party in Ukraine.

Not to be confused with For United Ukraine.

History

The party was founded in 1998 as Party of Educators of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Партія Освітян України); it was officially registered as a party on 26 October 1998.[1] At the legislative 2002 elections the party was part of the Nataliya Vitrenko Bloc with Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine.[1] The alliance won 3.22%[2] of the votes, little short of passing the 4% threshold needed to enter the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament).[3]

In July 2004 Bohdan Hubsky (at the time a People's Deputy of Ukraine[4][nb 1]) was elected party leader and the party was renamed United Ukraine.[5] On 22 September 2004 in the Verkhovna Rada a new faction "United Ukraine" was created by Hubsky on the basis of the faction "Democratic Initiatives - Democracy".[6] It had 17 members.[6] The party supported Viktor Yanukovych during the Ukrainian presidential election of 2004.[5]

26 November 2005 the party dissolved itself and merged into Batkivshchyna.[7][8][5] On 18 October 2013 the party was de-registered at the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice.[9]

Notes
  1. Elected into the Verkhovna Rada in 2002 for Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united).[4]

References
  1. (in Ukrainian) Партія "Єдина Україна", Databases ASD
  2. (in Ukrainian) Прогресивна соціалістична партія України, Databases ASD
  3. Ukraine at the Crossroads: Economic Reforms in International Perspective by Axel Siedenberg (Editor), Lutz Hoffmann, Physica-Verlag Heidelberg, 1999, ISBN 3790811890/ISBN 978-3790811896 (page 184)
  4. (in Russian) Short bio of Bohdan Hubsky, LIGA.net
  5. (in Ukrainian) Партія «Єдина Україна» Party "United Ukraine", poli.in.ua
  6. (in Ukrainian) Фракція «Єдина Україна» визначилась з орієнтацією Faction "United Ukraine" identified a focus, Коментарі (22 September 2004)
  7. (in Ukrainian) Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Батьківщина" All-Ukrainian Union Batkivshchyna, RBC Ukraine
  8. ORANGE COALITION CRUMBLES AHEAD OF POLLS, The Jamestown Foundation (30 November 2005)
  9. (in Ukrainian) Єдиний реєстр громадських формувань Unified Register of community groups, Ukrainian Ministry of Justice (as viewed on 25 October 2013)


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