European Party Of Ukraine

The European Party of Ukraine ( uk, Європейська партія України) is a Ukrainian political party registered by the Ministry of Justice on August 3, 2006. Its ideology is social-liberalism, when the state should maintain harmonious social relations: create appropriate conditions for free competition, to prevent the formation of market monopolies and protect the vulnerable population strata. They advocate reforms that they claim will increase social standards of life of Ukrainians to the European level. They support integration of Ukraine into the European Union. Initially, the party was headed by Mykola Moskalenko. In August 2013 the party had more than 5,000 members. The party did not take part in national elections since 2012.

History of the Party

Foundation

The date of registration of the European Party of Ukraine by the Ministry of Justice is August 3, 2006. The first party leader was Mykola Moskalenko, and Victor Zavalnyy was his deputy. Since September 2007 Mykola Katerynchuk has been the leader of the party.

Elections 2007

The European Party joined the single "megablock" of national democratic parties "Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc" in the early 2007 parliamentary elections.
The party's people's deputy according to the block's list was Mykola Katerynchuk. After polling 14.15% of the votes, the block was the third biggest block and got 72 seats in the Parliament.Політична партія "Європейська партія України"
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Elections 2008

During the 2008 Kyiv local election the party was part of Mykola Katerynchuk Bloc that won 3.47% of the votes and 5 seats in the Kyiv City Council.Two Deputies Of Kyiv Council Create Faction Of Katerynchuk Bloc
Kyiv Post (November 27, 2008) Mykola Katerynchuk ran for the post Mayor of Kyiv.

Elections 2010

During the presidential elections 2010 the European Party of Ukraine supported Yulia Tymoshenko Councils (regional parliaments); its biggest success was winning 1 seat in the city council of Lutsk. According to the results of local elections the European party won 150 local government seats.

Elections 2012

In October 2008 the party intended to run in the October 2012 parliamentary elections (also) as part of a political alliance and was holding negotiations with the Lytvyn Bloc, the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and Vitaliy Klychko. However, Civil Position competed on one single party under the "umbrella" party "Fatherland", together with several other parties, during the 2012 parliamentary elections In these elections (European Party of Ukraine) party leader Katerynchuk won a constituency in Vinnytsia Oblast (and thus was re-elected into parliament) under the same banner.Список депутатів нової Верховнсї Ради
Ukrayinska Pravda (11 November 2012) In the same election the party competed in/for 5 constituencies (seats) under its own name (Vinnytsia Oblast, Volyn Oblast, Donetsk Oblast, Ivano-Frankivsk Oblast, Poltava Oblast and Sumy Oblast; the party did not participate in the elections in the national multi-mandate electoral district); but it won in none and thus missed parliamentary representation. When several of the other parties that had competed under "umbrella" "Fatherland" in the 2012 parliamentary elections merged into "Fatherland" in June 2013Sobolev: Front for Change and Reform and Order Party to join Batkivschyna
Interfax-Ukraine (11 June 2013)
Front for Change, Reforms and Order to dissolve for merger with Batkivshchyna - Sobolev
, Ukrinform (11 June 2013) the party did not merge with them and kept its independence.

In October 2012 during the parliamentary elections the European Party of Ukraine proposed its candidates in single-mandate majority electoral districts in Vinnytsia, Volyn, Donetsk, Ivano-Frankivsk, Poltava and Sumy regions. The European Party of Ukraine did not participate in the elections in the national multi-mandate electoral district.
The party leader Mykola Katerynchuk was elected at the majority electoral district No.13 (Kalinovsky, Khmelnitsky, Kozatinsky districts of Vinnytsia region), he got 64.34% of votes.

Elections 2013

In Horlivka city council in the majority electoral district No. 21 (the town of the Rumyantseva mine and a part of the residential district “Sonyachnyy”) the candidate of the European Party of Ukraine Iryna Korzhukova was elected as a deputy . Receiving 42.8% she outpolled the Party of Regions candidate Vladimir Drukovsky (23.8%) and the Communist Oleg Afonichkin (11.74%).
The leader of the party began the campaign for mayor of Kyiv, he has significant support of Kyiv citizens The Kyiv local election date is not yet determined.Local elections in Kyiv should be held in 2015, according to Constitutional Court
Interfax-Ukraine (30 may 2013)
Ukraine court ruling on Kiev mayor election ‘pro-government’
, Euronews (31 may 2013) The Verkhovna Rada (parliament of Ukraine) has not yet set a date for the elections (by law it is obliged to do so).Rada passes at first reading instruction to schedule Kyiv mayoral election for June 2
Kyiv Post (21 March 2013)Opposition wants election in Kyiv on July 16
, Ukrinform (9 May 2013)

Elections 2014

The party did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election

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