Aktsent ( uk, Акцент, formally Viche ( uk, Віче; English translation: ''Union'' or ''Council'')), is a

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registered in May 1993..ua/en/catalog/company_details/00044345/ AKTSENT

www.sd.net.ua Before September 2005 the party was known as Constitutional Democratic Party ( uk, Конституційно-демократична партія; ''Konstytutsijno-Demokratychna Partija'').Bohoslovska Inna

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(July 23, 2008); Between 2005 and 2018 the party was called Viche.Small biography on Political Party "Aktsent"

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History

The party was founded by

Inna Bohoslovska Inna Hermanivna Bohoslovska ( uk, І́нна Ге́рманівна Богосло́вська, russian: И́нна Ге́рмановна Богосло́вская, alternative spellings: ''Bogoslovska'', ''Bogoslovskaya'') is a former Ukraine, ...

in 1993. At the

1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 29 March 1998. Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1976 The Communist Party of Ukraine remained the largest party in the Verkhovna Rada, winning 121 of the 445 ...

the party was part of the

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"Elephant – Social-Liberal Union" ( uk, Виборчий блок партій "СЛОн – Соціально-Ліберальне Об'єднання") that won 0,90% of the votes and no seats. At the

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on 30 March 2002, the Constitutional Democratic Party was part of the

Team of Winter Generation The Team of Winter Generation ( uk, Команда Озимого Покоління; ''Komanda Ozimogo Pokolinnja'') was an electoral alliance in Ukraine. At the parliamentary elections on 30 March 2002, the alliance won 2.0% of the popular vote a ...

alliance, which didn't pass the 4%

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and obtained no seats. At the

on 26 March 2006, it won 1.74% of the popular vote and no seats. On August 3, 2007, Bohoslovska and other leaders of the party decided to participate in the 2007 parliamentary elections within party list of the

Party of regions The Party of Regions ( uk, Партія регіонів, Partiia rehioniv, ; russian: Партия регионов, Partiya regionov) was a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine formed in late 1997 that then grew to be the biggest party of Uk ...

. Ihor Didkovsky was elected as a new party leader. The party considered a merge into

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in 2007 and did not participate in the 2007 election; however on June 12, 2009 in

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an extraordinary eleventh party congress took place. After Bohoslovska quit the Party of Regions to take part in the presidential election of the next year in May 2009. she became leader of Viche again. The party did participate in the 2012 parliamentary elections in 14 simple-majority

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but did not win parliamentary representation. The party did not participate in the

2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Snap elections to the Verkhovna Rada took place on 26 October 2014. Petro Poroshenko, the President of Ukraine, had pressed for early parliamentary elections since his victory in the presidential election in May. In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections 8 persons won a local seat on behalf of Aktsent.

Ideology

Party members see themselves as the heirs of the party, which operated in the early 20th century, and use the theory of modern liberal conservatism (Anglo-Saxon conservatism). In particular, party officials declare, that they represent the interests of the middle class – of businessmen and of intellectuals.

References

External links

Official Party Website
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