Our Ukraine (political party)

This article is about Core party of the Our Ukraine Bloc created in 2005. For another party with such name prior to 2005, see Reforms and Order Party.
Our Ukraine
Наша Україна
LeaderViktor Yushchenko[1][2]
Founded5 March 2005
HeadquartersKyiv
Ideology
Political positionCentre-right[5]
ColoursOrange
Regions (2010)
53 / 3,056
[10]
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The Our Ukraine (Ukrainian: Наша Україна, romanized: Nasha Ukraina), formerly known as People's Union "Our Ukraine" (Ukrainian: Народний Союз «Наша Україна», romanized: Narodnyi Soiuz "Nasha Ukraina"),[11] is a centre-right political party of Ukraine formed in 2005.[12] The party supported former president Viktor Yushchenko. It has lost much of its support nationwide, yet still has some regional representation in Western Ukraine. Our Ukraine has not participated in national elections since the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[13]

On 2 March 2013, there was an attempt to dissolve the party by Serhii Bondarchuk at one of the party congresses in Kyiv.[14] However, the same day other sections of the party claimed this congress was illegal and the real party congress would be held on 18 May 2013.[15] While never was officially listed under any status People's Union "Our Ukraine" was delisted as an observer in the European People's Party, according to press release of Batkivshchyna political party.[16] Youth Union Our Ukraine is the youth wing of the party.[17]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference YushleadOU112012 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Our Ukraine's congress adopts amendments in party's statute, Ukrinform (27 December 2008)
  3. ^ Kuzio, Taras. "Yushchenko versus Tymoshenko: Why Ukraine's National Democrats are divided" (PDF). Demokratizatsiya. p. 215. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  4. ^ Harasymiw, Bohdan (2024). "Our Ukraine". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 12 July 2024.
  5. ^ a b c Taras Kuzio (2008), "Ukraine", Nations and Nationalism: A Global Historical Overview, ABC-CLIO, p. 1629
  6. ^ Taras Kuzio (2005), "Ukraine's 2004 Presidential Election: The Orange Revolution", Elections Today, 12 (4): 10
  7. ^ Anders Åslund (2009), How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy, Peterson Institute for International Economics, p. 180
  8. ^ Madalena Resende; Hendrik Kraetzschmar (2005), "Parties of Power as Roadblocks to Democracy: The Cases of Ukraine and Egypt", Democratisation in the European Neighbourhood, Centre for European Policy Studies, p. 160
  9. ^ Natalia Shapovalova (2010), "Ukraine: A New Partnership", The European Union and Democracy Promotion, The Johns Hopkins University Press, p. 60
  10. ^ (in Ukrainian) Results of elections, Central Election Commission
  11. ^ Our Ukraine officially changes its name Archived May 31, 2012, at the Wayback Machine, Interfax-Ukraine (14 July 2009)
  12. ^ (in Ukrainian) Політична партія «Наша Україна» Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Database DATA
  13. ^ Cite error: The named reference URK.VOTEPP234 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  14. ^ "Yushchenko's 'Our Ukraine' Dissolves Itself". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. March 4, 2016. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016./www.kyivpost.com/content/politics/our-ukraine-partys-congress-legitimate-bondarchuk-321207.html
  15. ^ Cite error: The named reference OUover2 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  16. ^ (in Ukrainian) Європейська народна партія взяла до себе "УДАР" і виключила "Нашу Україну" European People's Party took a "hit" and excluded "Our Ukraine" Archived March 3, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Ukrayinska Pravda (6 September 2013)
    Member Parties Archived May 4, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, European People's Party
  17. ^ (in Ukrainian) У Києві розпочався з’їзд Нашої України: Ющенка запросили доповісти In Kyiv began XII congress of the political party "Our Ukraine", UNIAN (2 March 2013)