This article presents the historical development and role of political parties in Ukrainian politics,and outlines more extensively the significant modern political parties since Ukraine gained independence in 1991.
The People's Party is a political party in Ukraine. It was previously named as the Agrarian Party of Ukraine. The party is led by Volodymyr Lytvyn. In September 2011,he claimed that his party was only surpassed in membership by the Party of Regions and Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko.
The All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland",referred to as Batkivshchyna,is a political party in Ukraine led by People's Deputy of Ukraine,former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. As the core party of the former Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc,Batkivshchyna has been represented in the Verkhovna Rada since Yulia Tymoshenko set up the parliamentary faction of the same name in March 1999. After the November 2011 banning of the participation of blocs of political parties in parliamentary elections,Batkivshchyna became a major force in Ukrainian politics independently.
European Solidarity is a political party in Ukraine. It has its roots in a parliamentary group called Solidarity dating from 2000 and has existed since in various forms as a political outlet for Petro Poroshenko. The party with its then name Petro Poroshenko Bloc won 132 of the 423 contested seats in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election,more than any other party.
Mykola Volodymyrovych Tomenko is a Ukrainian politician. He has been a member of Ukraine's parliament,the Verkhovna Rada from 2006 until 2016. In 2014,Tomenko became a member of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc,which elected him to the 8th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada on its party lists during the 2014 parliamentary election. On 25 March 2016 the party Congress of Petro Poroshenko Bloc removed Tomenko's parliamentary mandate using the Imperative mandate provisions of the Ukrainian constitution. This was considered illegal by Tomenko;on 28 July 2016 Ukraine's highest Administrative Court rejected his appeal to gain back his parliamentary seat.
Vitaliy Danilov is the former president of Ukrainian Premier League (2008–2016) and honorary president of FC Kharkiv (2005–2010). Danilov is a former member of Ukrainian parliament.
Anatoliy Serhiyovych Matviyenko was a Ukrainian politician,founder of several political parties in the country. Matviyenko was 6 times elected to the Ukrainian parliament.
SydirVasylyovych Kizin is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician who briefly served as Governor of Zhytomyr Oblast from March to July 2014. He is a member of the Svoboda party.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 7th convocation was a convocation of the legislative branch of the Verkhovna Rada,Ukraine's unicameral parliament. Its composition was based on the results of the 2012 parliamentary election. Half of the seats in the parliament were apportioned between the five winning parties based on the popular vote,while the other half was apportioned between 4 parties and 44 independents between 225 constituencies throughout the country. It first met in the capital Kyiv on December 12,2012,and ended its session on November 27,2014,after the 8th Verkhovna Rada began its first session.
Snap parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 26 October 2014 to elect members of the Verkhovna Rada. President Petro Poroshenko had pressed for early parliamentary elections since his victory in the presidential elections in May. The July breakup of the ruling coalition gave him the right to dissolve the parliament,so on 25 August 2014 he announced the early election.
Revival is a political party in Ukraine,established in its current form in June 2015. Its predecessor had been founded by Heorhiy Kirpa in 2004.
Ruslan Volodymyrovych Koshulynskyi is a Ukrainian politician,nationalist,soldier,and former People's Deputy of Ukraine who served as the 9th Deputy Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada (2012–2014). He is also the Deputy Leader of Svoboda party.
Ostap Mykhaylovych Semerak is a Ukrainian politician and former People's Deputy of Ukraine's parliament,the Verkhovna Rada,and former Minister of Ecology in the Groysman Government.
Andriy Volodymyrovych Mokhnyk is a Ukrainian politician,Deputy Chairman of the right-wing All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom" party,and a former Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine.
Ihor Mykhailovych Miroshnychenko is a Ukrainian sports journalist and far-right politician who was a People's Deputy of Ukraine from 2012 to 2014. He was awarded the title of Merited Journalist of Ukraine in 2006.
The Union "Self Reliance" is a liberal conservative and Christian democratic political party in Ukraine.
People's Front is a nationalist and conservative political party in Ukraine founded by Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Oleksandr Turchynov in 2014.
The second Yatsenyuk government was created in Ukraine after the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election. On 2 December 2014,288 members of the Ukrainian parliament approved the composition of the cabinet. The Government was backed by Petro Poroshenko Bloc,People's Front,Self Reliance,Fatherland and Radical Party.
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 8th convocation was a convocation of the legislative branch of the Verkhovna Rada,Ukraine's unicameral parliament. The 8th convocation met at the Verkhovna Rada building in Kyiv,having begun its term on 27 November 2014 following the last session of the 7th Verkhovna Rada. Its five-year term came to an end on July 24,2019,marking the end of its tenth session.
Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October,the elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolved parliament on 21 May 2019,during his inauguration. The elections resulted in an outright majority,a novelty in Ukraine,for Zelenskyy's Servant of the People party,which won 254 seats.
