Labour Ukraine ( uk, Трудова Україна ''Trudova Ukrajina'')
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Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

registered in June 2000.

History

A Labour Ukraine faction was created after the 1998 parliamentary election on April 20, 1999.Trudova Ukraina elects a new chairman

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(November 27, 2000) In September 2000 the Labour Ukraine faction 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 ...

numbered 45 MPs and was the second largest entity in the parliament.

Serhiy Tihipko Serhiy Leonidovych Tihipko ( uk, Сергій Леонідович Тiгiпко; born 13 February 1960) is a Ukrainian politician and finance specialist who was Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine. Tihipko was Minister of Economics in 2000 and subse ...

was elected party leader in November 2000. The party supported

President of Ukraine The president of Ukraine ( uk, Президент України, Prezydent Ukrainy) is the head of state of Ukraine. The president represents the nation in international relations, administers the foreign political activity of the state, condu ...

Leonid Kuchma Leonid Danylovych Kuchma ( uk, Леоні́д Дани́лович Ку́чма; born 9 August 1938) is a Ukrainian politician who was the second president of Ukraine from 19 July 1994 to 23 January 2005. Kuchma's presidency saw numerous corrup ...

during his presidency. At the

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elections of 30 March 2002, the party was part of the

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

alliance. winning 49 seats, their list of deputies included

Viktor Pinchuk Victor Mykhailovych Pinchuk ( uk, Віктор Михайлович Пінчук, ''Viktor Mykhailovych Pinchuk''; born 14 December 1960) is a Ukrainian businessman and oligarch. As of January 2016, ''Forbes'' ranked him as 1,250th on the list o ...

. The party leader was

Serhiy Tyhypko Serhiy Leonidovych Tihipko ( uk, Сергій Леонідович Тiгiпко; born 13 February 1960) is a Ukrainian politician and finance specialist who was Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine. Tihipko was Minister of Economics in 2000 and subse ...

. After the 2004 presidential election Tihipko stepped out of Ukrainian politics, resigning as Labour Ukraine leader on April 23, 2005, before returning to it in the 2010 presidential election. In the 2006 elections, the party failed on its own to win parliamentary representation (it won 0,09% of the votes). In the 2007 parliamentary elections the party did not participate. In this election Labour Ukraine members, including party leader

Valeriy Konovalyuk Valeriy Illich Konovalyuk ( uk, Валерій Ілліч Коновалюк, born 31 August 1966 in DonetskSho ...

, decided to join the Party of Regions election list. Again in the 2012 parliamentary elections the party was absent. In the

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; Opposition Bloc won 29 seats.Opposition Bloc boosts rating by distancing itself from Yanukovych era

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(Oct. 24, 2014)Opposition Bloc boosts rating by distancing itself from Yanukovych era

(Oct. 24, 2014)
Development party of Ukraine, 'Ukraine - Forward!' and four more political forces team up in Opposition Bloc

(Sept. 15, 2014)
Ukraine’s Elections: The Battle of the Billionaires

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(10.25.14)
Non-Maidan parties united into the Opposition Bloc

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. 14 September 2014

References

External links

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