Internet Party of Ukraine ( uk, Інтернет Партія України) is a

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established in 2007 and registered in April 2010.Justice Ministry registers Internet Party of Ukraine

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(April 6, 2010) Its headquarters is located in

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, Ukraine.

History

Founded and led by

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the party claims to be the first ''Internet party'' in the world, its slogan is "electronic government against bureaucracy" and it wants to "create an electronic government in Ukraine". The party was formed between 2006 and 2007, by the alleged Ukrainian

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, Dmytro Holubov. The founding congress was held on October 1, 2007. On March 1, 2009 in a hotel complex "Magnolia" in

, was held the first official congress of the party. The vice-president of the Union of Advocates of Ukraine Petro Boyko and Denys Hrihoryev, world champion from

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in super-heavyweight are also founding members. In the

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(seat); but it lost in this one and thus missed parliamentary representation. In the

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; but his registration was refused because his real identity could not be verified. A man named Darth Vader was a candidate at the 25 May 2014 Kyiv mayoral election and the Odesa mayoral election of the same day for the party. In the

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'' characters such as

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, and

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run for seats in the

Ukrainian parliament The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...

.Darth Vader Is Running for Prime Minister of Ukraine, Vowing to Take On Putin

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(10/24/14) In the election the party failed to clear the 5%

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(it got 0.36% of the votes) and also did not win a constituency seat and thus no parliamentary seats.Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament
,

Ukrainian Television and Radio UTR ( uk, Українське телебачення і радіомовлення; Ukrayins'ke telebachennya i radiomovlennya) is the Ukrainian state owned TV channel targeting a foreign Ukrainian-speaking audience. Programming is provided with ...

(8 November 2014)
People's Front 0.33% ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with all ballots counted in Ukraine elections - CEC
,

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(8 November 2014)
Poroshenko Bloc to get 132 seats in parliament - CEC

(8 November 2014) Party founder Golubov did win a parliamentary seat as a candidate for

Petro Poroshenko Bloc European Solidarity ( uk, Європейська солідарність, Yevropeis'ka solidarnist', YeS) is a political party in Ukraine. It has its roots in a parliamentary group called Solidarity dating from 2000 and has existed since in vario ...

constituency 136 located in Odesa with 30.31% of the votes. On 23 October 2015, a group of Internet Party members, along with their leader, participated in the opening ceremony of the monument to Darth Vader, which was modified as a part of decommunization process by artist Aleksandr Milov from a statue of

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at the territory of Pressmash plant in Odesa. In the

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the party had 1 candidate in constituency 95 located in Odesa, but he got only 0.15% of the votes (133 votes). In the election Golubov was not reelected in constituency 136, this time as an independent candidate, with 40.92% of the votes (winner Oleksandr Horeniuk of

Servant of the People Servant of the People (SN; uk, Слуга народу, Sluha narodu, ) is a liberal, centrist, pro-European political party in Ukraine. It was formed in late 2017 and was officially registered on 31 March 2018 on the basis of the previousl ...

gained 47.08%).

Purpose

The political power tends to create attractive investment conditions in

and reach a new level of economic development and technology, its purpose is: *Computerization of the entire country *Elimination of bureaucracy in its negative sense *Transition to digital media and away from paperwork *Free PC courses and foreign languages for all citizens of Ukraine due to budget * Seven taxes instead of 98 *Single income tax of 25% *Abolition of VAT *Ban on sale of GMO products in Ukraine *Establishment of offshore zones in Ukraine *Withdrawal from the

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References

External links

* Ukrainian CyberCrime Boss Leads Political Party
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