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