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For United Ukraine!

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Leader
  
Volodymyr Lytvyn

Political position
  
Centre

Headquarters
  
Kiev, Ukraine

International affiliation
  
None

Founded
  
December 15, 2001 (2001-12-15)

Ideology
  
Pro-presidential, regionalism, pan-Slavism, pro-Russia, parliamentarism

For United Ukraine! (Ukrainian: «За Єдину Україну!»; Za Yedynu Ukrayinu!) was a political alliance and an electoral bloc in Ukraine founded in December 2001 to participate in the parliamentary election in held on March 30, 2002.

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2002 parliamentary election

In the parliamentary election, the party was pro-presidential, supporting the incumbent President Leonid Kuchma. At the election, the alliance won 11.77% of the popular vote and a total of 102 out of 450 seats. Final poll results had predicted 7-8% of the total votes. The alliance received a lot of its electoral votes in Donetsk Oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine.

The alliance consisted of the 5 following members:

  • Party of Regions (Partiya Rehioniv), led by Volodymyr Semynozhenko.
  • Agrarian Party of Ukraine (Ahrarna Partiya Ukrayiny), led by the Governor of Lviv Oblast Mykhailo Hladiy.
  • Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine (Partiya Promislovtsiv i Pidpryiemtsiv Ukrajiny, PPPU), led by Anatoliy Kinakh.
  • People's Democratic Party (Narodno-Demokratychna Partiya), led by former Prime Minister Valeriy Pustovoitenko.
  • Labour Ukraine (Trudova Ukrayina), led by Serhiy Tyhypko.

    • Top-10 party list: Volodymyr Lytvyn (unaffiliated), Kateryna Vashchuk (Agrarian Party of Ukraine), Volodymyr Boiko (unaffiliated), Valeriy Pustovoitenko (People's Democratic Party), Mykhailo Hladiy (Agrarian Party of Ukraine), Andriy Derkach (Trudova Ukrayina), Serhiy Bubka (Party of Regions), Mykola Onishchuk (PPPU), Mykhailo Zubets (Agrarian Party of Ukraine), Oleksandr Karpov (People's Democratic Party).

    Since the election

    The electoral bloc disintegrated after the 2002 election in June.

    References

    For United Ukraine! Wikipedia
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