Opposition Bloc (2019)

Opposition Bloc
Опозиційний блок
Оппозиционный блок
LeaderYevheniy Murayev
Deputy LeaderOleksandr Vilkul
ChairmanBorys Kolesnikov
Parliamentary LeaderVadym Novynskyi
Founded7 June 2019 (2019-06-07)
Registered26 December 2018 (2018-12-26)
Banned25 July 2022 (2022-07-25)
Merger ofOpposition Bloc (2014) (Akhmetov's wing)
Party for Peace and Development
Preceded byOpposition Bloc (2014)
Succeeded byUkraine is Our Home
HeadquartersKyiv
IdeologySocial liberalism[1][2][3]
Regionalism[4][5]
Russophilia[6][7][8]
Euroscepticism[4]
Political positionCentre[9] to centre-left[10][11][12]
Affiliate partiesNashi
Revival
Trust Deeds
Strong Ukraine
Christian Socialists
Kernes Bloc
Agrarian Party (united)
For Case Studies
Oligarch associationDonetsk Clan[13]
Colours  Blue   White
Party flag
Website
opposition.com.ua

Opposition Bloc (Ukrainian: Опозиційний блок, Russian: Оппозиционный блок), formerly called Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development (Ukrainian: Опозиційний блок — Партія миру та розвитку, Russian: Оппозиционный блок - Партия мира и развития) until June 2019, was a Ukrainian political party that was founded in 2019. On 8 June 2022, the party was banned in court.[14] The party officially ceased to exist on 25 July, due to not appealing the ban.[15]

The creation of the party was the result of a schism in the Opposition Bloc party, a party of the same name founded in 2014. By January 2019, two wings of this party had nominated two different candidates for the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.[16][17][18] Yuriy Boyko was nominated by the party wing called Opposition Platform — For Life,[19] while a competing party wing wanted to nominate Oleksandr Vilkul as its candidate. The party wing supporting Vilkul formed a new party, Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development. That new party proceeded to nominate Vilkul as its presidential candidate.[16] In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the new party won six single-seat constituencies, and its nationwide list won 3.23% of the votes, failing to overcome the 5% election barrier.[20]

Legally, Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development is the successor of the Industrial Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Індустріальна Україна, Russian: Индустриальная Украина)[16] founded in 2014.[21]

  1. ^ Tadeusz A. Olszański (17 September 2014). Centre for Eastern Studies (ed.). "Ukraine's political parties at the start of the election campaign".
  2. ^ Первоочередные шаги ОППОЗИЦИОННОГО БЛОКА по выходу из кризиса – восстановить мир и поднять экономику
  3. ^ Проект Конституции
  4. ^ a b Nordsieck, Wolfram (2014). "Ukraine". Parties and Elections in Europe. Archived from the original on 13 May 2019.
  5. ^ "Anti-recessionary Program of the Opposition bloc". Opposition.org.ua. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  6. ^ (in German) Selenskyjs Triumph birgt ein hohes Absturzrisiko, Wiener Zeitung (22 July 2019)
  7. ^ (in German) Ukraine: Präsident Selenskij steuert auf seinen zweiten Wahlsieg zu, Tageblatt (21 July 2019)
  8. ^ (in German) Kiew in der Hand der "Diener des Volkes", Schwäbische Post (23 July 2019)
  9. ^ Nordsieck, Wolfram (2019). "Ukraine". Parties and Elections in Europe. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  10. ^ Yakymenko, Yury (2017). Transformation of the party system: Ukrainian experience in the European context (PDF) (in Ukrainian). Razumkov Center. p. 64-65.
  11. ^ Первоочередные шаги ОППОЗИЦИОННОГО БЛОКА по выходу из кризиса – восстановить мир и поднять экономику
  12. ^ Проект Конституции
  13. ^ "Rinat Akhmetov was one of the most powerful oligarchs in Ukraine with his own media empire. Why is he refusing her now?". Meduza. 15 July 2022. Retrieved 13 January 2024.
  14. ^ Cite error: The named reference 79648OppositionBloc was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  15. ^ Cite error: The named reference 25072022ppositionBloc was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  16. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference 4055712-vybory was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  17. ^ (in Ukrainian) Opposition split. How Boyko and Vilkul divide the legacy of "regionalists", Ukrainska Pravda (18 December 2018)
  18. ^ (in Ukrainian) "Odd-man-out. Why Leovochkin and Medvedchuk are preparing for the election without Akhmetov", Ukrainska Pravda (20 November 2018)
  19. ^ (in Ukrainian) Boyko began registering as a presidential candidate, Ukrainska Pravda (17 November 2018)
    (in Ukrainian) The association of Boyko-Rabinovich was determined with the presidential candidate, Ukrainska Pravda (17 November 2018)
  20. ^ "Новинський і ще 5 "опоблоківців" проходять у Раду, а Колесніков – ні".
  21. ^ Cite error: The named reference liudyna-akhmetova-33517 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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