For United Ukraine!
For United Ukraine! | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Volodymyr Lytvyn[1] |
| Founded | December 15, 2001 |
| Headquarters | Kiev, Ukraine |
| Ideology | Pro-presidential, regionalism, pan-Slavism, pro-Russia, parliamentarism |
| Political position | Centre |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Blue |
| Website | |
| www.zaedu.org.ua | |
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|---|
 Ukraine portal |
For United Ukraine! (Template:Lang-uk; Za Yedynu Ukrayinu!) was a political alliance and an electoral bloc in Ukraine founded in December 2001 to participate in the parliamentary election in held on March 30, 2002.
2002 parliamentary election
In the parliamentary election, the party was pro-presidential, supporting the incumbent President Leonid Kuchma. At the election, the alliance won 11.77%[2] of the popular vote and a total of 102 out of 450 seats. Final poll results had predicted 7-8% of the total votes.[3] The alliance received a lot of its electoral votes in Donetsk Oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine.[4]
The alliance consisted of the 5 following members:[5][6]
- Party of Regions (Partiya Rehioniv),[7] led by Volodymyr Semynozhenko.
- Agrarian Party of Ukraine (Ahrarna Partiya Ukrayiny), led by the Governor of Lviv Oblast Mykhailo Hladiy.[5]
- Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine (Partiya Promislovtsiv i Pidpryiemtsiv Ukrajiny, PPPU),[8] led by Anatoliy Kinakh.[5]
- People's Democratic Party (Narodno-Demokratychna Partiya),[9] led by former Prime Minister Valeriy Pustovoitenko.[5]
- Labour Ukraine (Trudova Ukrayina),[10] led by Serhiy Tyhypko.[5]
Top-10 party list: Volodymyr Lytvyn (unaffiliated), Kateryna Vashchuk (Agrarian Party of Ukraine), Volodymyr Boiko (unaffiliated), Valeriy Pustovoitenko (People's Democratic Party), Mykhailo Hladiy (Agrarian Party of Ukraine), Andriy Derkach (Trudova Ukrayina), Serhiy Bubka (Party of Regions), Mykola Onishchuk (PPPU), Mykhailo Zubets (Agrarian Party of Ukraine), Oleksandr Karpov (People's Democratic Party).
| Party | PR | Constituency | Total seats |
+/– | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | Seats | Seats | |||
| For United Ukraine | 3,051,056 | 12.2 | 35 | 66 | 101 | New |
| Party of Regions | 6 | 25 | 31 | +29 | ||
| Agrarian Party of Ukraine | 7 | 15 | 22 | +20 | ||
| Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine | 5 | 1 | 6 | New | ||
| People's Democratic Party | 7 | 10 | 17 | -11 | ||
| Labour Ukraine (Trudova Ukrayina) | 2 | 2 | 4 | New | ||
| unaffiliated | 8 | 13 | 21 | - | ||
Since the election
The electoral bloc disintegrated after the 2002 election in June.[11]
See also
- United Russia, pro Putin political project created on December 1, 2001
References
- ^ "Leaders of the "Za Yedynu Ukrayinu" bloc". Za Yediny Ukrayinu! (in Ukrainian). 2002-11-24. Archived from the original on 2004-12-08. Retrieved 2008-02-25.
- ^ Template:Uk icon Політична партія „Трудова Україна“, Database DATA
- ^ Ukraine's election frontrunners, BBC News (28 March 2002)
- ^ State Building in Ukraine: The Ukrainian parliament, 1990-2003 (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies) by Sarah Whitmore, Routledge, 2004, ISBN 0415331951/ISBN 978-0415331951
- ^ a b c d e Communist and Post-Communist Parties in Europe, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008, ISBN 3-525-36912-3 (page 391)
- ^ Template:Uk icon 2002 Виборчий блок політичних партій "За Єдину Україну!", Database DATA
- ^ "Official informational server". Party of Regions. Retrieved 2008-02-24.
- ^ "Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine (PIEU)". Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2008-02-24.
- ^ "Official website of the People's Democratic Party". People's Democratic Party (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2008-02-24.
- ^ "Informational portal TRUD.org.ua (now defunct)". Labour Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 2006-06-12. Archived from the original on 2006-06-12. Retrieved 2008-02-24.
- ^ Democratic Breakthroughs and Revolutions in Five Post-Communist Countries: Comparative Perspectives on the Fourth Wave by Taras Kuzio, University of Toronto
External links
- "Main Page (now defunct)". Za Yediny Ukrayinu! (in Ukrainian). 2002-11-24. Archived from the original on 2005-02-10. Retrieved 2008-02-24.
- "Financial account of the Electoral bloc "Za Yedinu Ukrayinu!"". Central Election Commission of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2008-02-24.
- "Electoral bloc "Za Yedinu Ukrayinu!"". party.civicua.org (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2008-02-24.
