Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform of Vitali Klitschko Український демократичний
альянс за реформи Віталія Кличка | |
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Leader | Vitali Klitschko[1][2] |
Founded | 24 April 2010[3] |
Registered | 14 March 2005[1] (as European Capital) |
Preceded by | European Capital Vitali Klitschko Bloc |
Headquarters | Kyiv |
Ideology | Liberalism[4][5][6] Civic nationalism[7] Pro-Europeanism[8][9][10] |
Political position | Centre[11][12] |
European affiliation | European People's Party (observer)[13] |
Colours | Red and white |
Slogan | From personal success to the success of the country[14] |
Verkhovna Rada | 0 / 450 |
Regions[15] | 183 / 43,122 |
Kyiv City Council | 30 / 120 |
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Website | |
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The Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform of Vitali Klitschko (Ukrainian: Український демократичний альянс за реформи Віталія Кличка; the acronym UDAR (Ukrainian: УДАР) translates to "strike" or "punch", English: PUNCH of Vitali Klitschko)[16] is a political party in Ukraine headed by retired[17] Ukrainian professional heavyweight boxer and the WBC world heavyweight champion emeritus Vitali Klitschko.[2] The party has been an observer member of the European People's Party (EPP) since 2013.[13]
Legally[clarification needed] the party is the successor of Political Party "European Capital" (Ukrainian: Політична партія "Європейська столиця", Russian: Политическая партия "Европейская столица") which was registered in March 2005.[1] In its last outing the party was founded on April 24, 2010, on the basis of the Vitali Klitschko Bloc (Ukrainian: Блок Віталія Кличка, Russian: Блок Виталия Кличко), a local political alliance in Kyiv (the capital of Ukraine).[3][18]
The party won 40 seats in the Ukrainian parliament in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[19]
In the 2014 parliamentary election, 30% of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc election list was filled by members of UDAR (as non-partisan) and UDAR leader Klitschko topped that list.[20] The Petro Poroshenko Bloc won the election with 132 seats.[21] UDAR officially merged into the Petro Poroshenko Bloc on 28 August 2015.[22]
In May 2019 Klitschko announced that UDAR would take part independently in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[23] In this election UDAR did compete as an independent party again, but only in 15 single-mandate constituencies and it failed to win any seats.[24][25]
In the 2020 Kyiv local election UDAR won 30 of the 120 seats of the Kyiv City Council.[26] In the same election Klitschko was reelected as Mayor of Kyiv with 50.52% of the votes.[27]
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