Preceded by Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc Ideology pro-Europeanism Colours White | Headquarters Lviv International affiliation None | |
Founded August 5, 2011 (2011-08-05) | ||
The Dictatorship Resistance Committee (Ukrainian: Комітет опору диктатурі) is an alliance formed by several parliamentary factions, political parties and opposition activist groups in Ukraine that opposed the Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Before the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary elections, parliamentary members of the alliance joined the All-Ukrainnian Association Fatherland (Batkivshchyna) as an umbrella coalition All-Ukrainian Association Fatherland - United Opposition.
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History
The Dictatorship Resistance Committee formed in August 2011 and came to join some other opposition alliances that were already active; most parties had joined forces one year earlier in People's Committee to Protect Ukraine. It was especially designed to promote public and civic actions against the conviction of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is also the leader of one of the member parties.
Late September 2011 Tymoshenko called for the opposition to run the elections on a single-party ticket. In November 2011, the parties of the Dictatorship Resistance Committee chose the candidates who would be on the joint electoral lists for the electoral district ballots in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary elections.
Members
As of March 2012, the Committee is formed by the following parties:
Although UDAR of Vitaliy Klychko has not joined the Dictatorship Resistance Committee it signed an agreement on 22 January 2012 on joint actions with the alliance.