Hromada (political party)

For other uses, see Hromada (disambiguation).

Hromada
Громада
LeaderPavlo Lazarenko
FounderPavlo Lazarenko
Oleksandr Turchynov
Founded1994; 30 years ago (1994)[1]
HeadquartersKyiv
IdeologyPopulism
Anti-Leonid Kuchma[2][3]
Political positionCentre-left[4]
Colours  Orange

All-Ukrainian Association "Community" (Ukrainian: Всеукраїнське об'єднання «Громада», romanized: Vseukrayins'ke ob'iednannia «Hromada»), often simply known as Hromada, is a Ukrainian political party registered in March 1994[5] and reregistered in March 2005.[6] The party's leader was formerly Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko.[5][6]

The party was present in the Verkhovna Rada from 1998 to 2002. Since then, it has unsuccessfully participated in national elections.[5][6][7] It has not participated in national elections since the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[8]

  1. ^ "Who Is Who in Tymoshenko's Government? / Ukrayinska Pravda". 13 March 2008. Archived from the original on 13 March 2008.
  2. ^ Kuzio, Taras (2006), "Kravchuk to the Orange Revolution: The Victory of Civic Nationalism in Post-Soviet Ukraine", After Independence: Making and Protecting the Nation in Postcolonial and Postcommunist States, University of Michigan Press, p. 204
  3. ^ "Ukraine: A truly dreadful prospect", The Economist, 26 March 1998
  4. ^ Wolczuk, Kataryna (2001), The Moulding of Ukraine: The Constitutional Politics of State Formation, Central European University Press, p. 263
  5. ^ a b c (in Ukrainian) Політична партія Всеукраїнське об'єднання „Громада“, Databases DATA
  6. ^ a b c (in Ukrainian) Політична партія Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Громада", Databases ASD
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