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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
References
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a
b (in Ukrainian)
Партія "Єдина Україна" , Databases ASD
^ (in Ukrainian)
Прогресивна соціалістична партія України , Databases ASD
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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)
External links
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