United Ukraine

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

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

References

^ ^a ^b (in Ukrainian) Партія "Єдина Україна", Databases ASD
^ (in Ukrainian) Прогресивна соціалістична партія України, Databases ASD
^ 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)
^ ^a ^b (in Russian) Short bio of Bohdan Hubsky, LIGA.net
^ ^a ^b ^c (in Ukrainian) Партія «Єдина Україна» Party "United Ukraine", poli.in.ua
^ ^a ^b (in Ukrainian) Фракція «Єдина Україна» визначилась з орієнтацією Faction "United Ukraine" identified a focus, Коментарі (22 September 2004)
^ (in Ukrainian) Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Батьківщина" All-Ukrainian Union Batkivshchyna, RBC Ukraine
^ ORANGE COALITION CRUMBLES AHEAD OF POLLS, The Jamestown Foundation (30 November 2005)
^ (in Ukrainian) Єдиний реєстр громадських формувань Unified Register of community groups, Ukrainian Ministry of Justice (as viewed on 25 October 2013)