People's Front (Ukraine)
People's Front | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Arseniy Yatsenyuk |
| Founded | 31 March 2014 |
| Colours | Peach, blue, white |
| Slogan | Strong team for difficult times |
People's Front (Ukrainian: Народний фронт; sometimes translated as Popular Front[1]) is a political party of Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Oleksandr Turchynov created in 2014.[1] Beside the above mentioned names, number of other members such as Tetyana Chornovol, Dmytro Tymchuk, Mykhailo Havrylyuk and others will run for the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[1]
Yatsenyuk and Turchynov are former members of Batkivshchyna.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
History
The party was registered at the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice on 31 March 2014.[9] Yatsenyuk and Turchynov became discontent with their party of the time, Batkivshchyna, when on 21 August 2014 the party's political council had decided that Yulia Tymoshenko would head the party list of Batkivschyna in the 26 October 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[9][10] People's Front held its first party congress on 10 September 2014[1] On this congress Yatsenyuk was elected chairman of the political council of People's Front and Turchynov was elected to head its central headquarters.[9] At the time Yatsenyuk was Prime Minister of Ukraine and Turchynov Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament.[9] Several high ranking members of battalions of territorial defense in Ukraine, who at the time fought in the War in Donbass, also were founding members of the party.[1] In his speech to the (first) party congress Yatsenyuk called for "unification and unity of all democratic forces" since this would be "The recipe for our victory".[11]
References
- ^ a b c d e Template:Uk iconYatsenyuk became a leader of the "People's Front" political council, while Turchynov is a head of its headquarters. Ukrayinska Pravda. 10 September 2014
Ukrainian PM, Parliament Speaker to Head Newly Formed Popular Front Party, RIA Novosti (10 September 2014) - ^ Ukraine's united opposition discussing formation of single party, Kyiv Post (7 December 2012)(subscription required)
- ^ Five factions, including Communist Party, registered in parliament, Kyiv Post (12 December 2012)(subscription required)
- ^ Sobolev: Front for Change and Reform and Order Party to join Batkivschyna, Interfax-Ukraine (11 June 2013)
Front for Change, Reforms and Order to dissolve for merger with Batkivshchyna - Sobolev, Ukrinform (11 June 2013) - ^ Template:Uk icon Sobolev heads "Batkivshchyna" in the Rada, Televiziyna Sluzhba Novyn (20 March 2014)
- ^ "Turchynov is summoned for interrogation to SBU today – BYUT". UNIAN. 20 September 2010. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2010.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Batkivschyna to nominate Tymoshenko for presidency, Yatseniuk heads party's political council". Kyiv Post. Interfax-Ukraine. 14 June 2013. Archived from the original on 15 June 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "BYT-Batkivschyna replaces its leader". Kyiv Post. Interfax-Ukraine. 7 December 2011. Archived from the original on 7 December 2011. Retrieved 14 December 2011.
{{cite news}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ a b c d Yatseniuk elected head of political council of People's Front Party – congress decision, Interfax-Ukraine (10 September 2014)
- ^ Ukraine President Poroshenko Calls Snap General Election, Bloomberg News (25 August 2014)
- ^ Yatseniuk calls for unification of all democratic forces in run-up to parliamentary elections, Interfax-Ukraine (10 September 2014)
External links
- "People's Front" presented its candidates. Hromadske.tv. 9 September 2014