Women for the Future
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All-Ukrainian Political Union Women for the Future (Ukrainian: Всеукраїнське політичне об’єднання "Жінки за майбутнє") is a political party in Ukraine registered on 30 March 2001. The party was created by Lyudmila Kuchma, a wife of the then serving President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma. Among notable party candidates was Dmytro Firtash.
At the legislative elections of 30 March 2002, the party won 2.1% of the popular vote and no seats;[1] although final poll results had predicted 5% till 6% of the total votes for the party.[2] At the legislative elections of 26 March 2006, the party was part of the Opposition Bloc "Ne Tak".[1] The party did not participate in the 2007 elections.[1]
In a 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election by-election on 15 March 2020 in electoral district 179 located in Kharkiv Oblast the party's candidate Olha Kovalenko received less than 160 votes (winner Yuliya Svitlychna received about 30.000 votes).[3]
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References
- ^ a b c Databases ASD: Political parties in Ukraine
- ^ Ukraine's election frontrunners, BBC News (28 March 2002)
- ^ The price of the victory vote for Svitlichnaya in the 179th district (Updated), Civil movement "Chesno" (7 April 2020) (in Ukrainian)