Maidan People's Union

All-Ukrainian Union "Maidan"
Всеукраїнське об'єднання «Майдан»
LeaderYulia Tymoshenko, Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Vitali Klitschko, Oleh Tyahnybok, Serhiy Kvit, Yuriy Lutsenko and Ruslana[1]
Founded22 December 2013 (2013-12-22)
IdeologyPro-Europeanism
European integration
Ukrainian nationalism
Factions:
Anti-Russian sentiment
Ultranationalism
Political positionBig tent
MembersBatkivshchyna
UDAR
Svoboda
AutoMaidan
Vidsich
European Party
Right Sector
UNA-UNSO
And others
Colours  Blue
  Yellow
Party flag
Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Майдан"
Website
maidan2013.com.ua

The Maidan People's Union (Ukrainian: Народне об'єднання "Майдан", romanized: Narodne obiednannya "Maidan") is an alliance in Ukraine formed by several political parties and non-partisan individuals and public organizations on the fifth Sunday (22 December 2013) of the Euromaidan-protests with the aim of "building a new Ukraine and a new Ukrainian government" [2] by creating a new Ukrainian constitution, and removing corrupt judges and prosecutors.[1][3] It also aims to organize opposition to the current regime and to coordinate the protest movement in all regions of the country.[2] In practice this means broadening support for the goals of the organization in the pro-government and pro-presidential heartland East Ukraine.[4]

During Euromaidan, the organization aimed[how?] to recruit millions of Ukrainians as members.[5] According to co-head of the organization Arseniy Yatsenyuk, "it will be a little bit like the Solidarity movement in Poland".[5]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference IntFU was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ a b (in Ukrainian) На Євромайдані створили народне об'єднання "Майдан" Euromaidan established national union "Maidan" Archived 2014-07-20 at the Wayback Machine, Ukrayinska Pravda (22 December 2013)
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference bloomberg was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Defiant Ukraine opposition continues pro-EU rallies, BBC News (22 December 2013)
  5. ^ a b New association born in Ukraine on fifth Sunday of protests Archived 2020-11-27 at the Wayback Machine, Euronews (22 December 2013)