Opposition Bloc ( uk, Опозиційний блок,

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: Оппозиционный блок), formerly called Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development ( uk, Опозиційний блок — Партія миру та розвитку,

: Оппозиционный блок - Партия мира и развития) until June 2019, was a

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political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

that was founded in 2019. On 8 June 2022 the party was banned in court. This decision was not appealed, so on 25 July 2022 the party ceased to exist. The creation of the party was the result of a schism in the

Opposition Bloc russian: Оппозиционный блок , colorcode = , logo = Opposition Bloc.png , logo_size = 240px , leader1_title = Chairman , leader1_name = Rinat Akhmetov (one wing)Dmytro Firtash & Yuriy Boyko ( ...

party, a party of the same name founded in 2014. By January 2019, two wings of this party had nominated two different candidates for the

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.Opposition split. How Boyko and Vilkul divide the legacy of "regionalists"

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(18 December 2018)"Odd-man-out. Why Leovochkin and Medvedchuk are preparing for the election without Akhmetov"

(20 November 2018)

Yuriy Boyko Yuriy Anatoliyovych Boyko ( uk, Юрій Анатолійович Бойко, russian: Ю́рий Анато́льевич Бо́йко; born 9 October 1958) is a Ukrainian politician who served as one of the Vice Prime Ministers of Ukraine betwe ...

was nominated by the party wing called

Opposition Platform — For Life The Opposition Platform – For Life ( uk, Опозиційна платформа – За життя; russian: Оппозиционная платформа – За жизнь, OPZZh) was a parliamentary and now banned pro-Russian and Eurosc ...

,Boyko began registering as a presidential candidate

(17 November 2018)
The association of Boyko-Rabinovich was determined with the presidential candidate

(17 November 2018) while a competing party wing wanted to nominate

Oleksandr Vilkul Oleksandr Yuriyovych Vilkul ( uk, Олексaндр Юрійович Вiлкул; born 24 May 1974), also known as Aleksandr Yuryevich Vilkul (russian: Александр Юрьевич Вилкул) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician wh ...

as its candidate. The party wing supporting Vilkul formed a new party, Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development. That new party proceeded to nominate Vilkul as its presidential candidate. In the

2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Snap elections to the Ukrainian parliament were held on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, these elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolv ...

, the new party won six single-seat constituencies, and its nationwide list won 3.23% of the votes, failing to overcome the 5% election barrier. Legally, Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development is the successor of the Industrial Party of Ukraine ( uk, Індустріальна Україна,

: Индустриальная Украина) founded in 2014.

Party leaders

* Evgeny Murayev (chairman and leader of electoral list) *

(co-chair) Political Council *

Borys Kolesnikov Borys Viktorovych Kolesnikov ( uk, Борис Вікторович Колесніков, born October 25, 1962) is the leader of the political party Ukraine is Our Home. He is the former secretary of the Party of Regions' presidium, former peopl ...

Fraction in

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leader *

Vadym Novynskyi Vadym Novynskyi (; born 3 June 1963
Liga.net) is a

History

In 2014, six parties that did not endorse

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merged into a new party called

.Opposition Bloc chooses top ten candidates for parliamentary elections

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(23 September 2014)
Allies of Yanukovych trying for parliament

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(21 September 2014)
Party Of Regions Will Not Contest Snap Parliamentary Elections Independently
,

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(14 September 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 In the

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, and

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s.Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament

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(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)"OPPOSITION BLOCK"

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(2018) According to ''

'', in the summer of 2018, negotiations began regarding the unification of the parties For Life (which had split from Opposition Bloc in 2016) and Opposition Bloc. ''Ukrayinska Pravda'' reported that these talks were instigated by Serhiy Lyovochkin, who, along with

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, controlled one of the wings of Opposition Bloc;

Rinat Akhmetov Rinat Leonidovych Akhmetov, ; russian: Ринат Леонидович Ахметов, ; tt-Cyrl, Ринат Леонид улы Әхмәтов, translit=Rinat Leonid uly Äkhmätov (born on 21 September 1966) is a Ukrainian billionaire and b ...

controlled the other wing of Opposition Bloc. In early November 2018, the party members loyal to Akhmetov decided to pause the negotiations. On 9 November 2018, Opposition Bloc chairman Boyko and

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's party For Life signed an agreement for cooperation in the

and the parliamentary election of the same year, and created the alliance

.Two Russia-friendly parties join forces for presidential election

(9 November 2018)The association of Boyko-Rabinovich was determined with the presidential candidate

(17 November 2018) The same day, Opposition Bloc leading members

Vadym Novynskyi Vadym Novynskyi (; born 3 June 1963
Liga.net) is a

and

claimed that the agreement was a "personal initiative" of Boyko and that the party had not taken any decisions on cooperation with For Life. On 17 November 2018, Opposition Platform — For Life nominated Boyko as its candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election. The same day, Opposition Bloc member Party of Development of Ukraine joined the Opposition Platform — For Life alliance. On 20 November 2018, Boyko and Serhiy Lyovochkin (the leading member of the Party of Development of Ukraine) were excluded from the Opposition Bloc faction because they "betrayed our voters' interests", according to the faction co-chairman, Vilkul. On 17 December 2018, an Opposition Bloc congress nominated

as their candidate in the

. A Ukrainian court had ruled three days before (in response to a lawsuit filed by People's Deputy of Ukraine for Opposition Bloc Serhiy Larin) that Opposition Bloc's congress, at which Vikul was to be nominated, could not "reorganize the party by any means". On 18 December 2018, the website of Opposition Bloc stated that therefore all of the decisions made at the congress were invalid. On 20 December 2018 the website of Opposition Bloc was down. Vilkul was nominated for the presidency again by Opposition Bloc — Party of Peace and Development (the recently renamed Industrial Party of Ukraine) on 20 January 2019.Presidential elections: Kivu, Vilkul and Hnapa have been nominated

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(20 January 2019)
Kiva and Vilkul surrendered to the Central Election Commission

(22 January 2019) According to Liga.net,

had renamed Industrial Party of Ukraine to Opposition Bloc — Party of Peace and Development solely to circumvent the court's injunction of 20 December 2018 (which prohibited any changes to the statute of the Opposition Bloc party). The Industrial Party of Ukraine was registered by the

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on 13 June 2014, and

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was then the chairman of that party. Shurma was at the time General Director of

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, part of the industrial complex owned by Rinat Akhmetov.PARTY "INDUSTRIAL UKRAINE" HEADS "MAN AKHMETOV"
5 Kanal (26 August 2014) In the

, an alliance was formed between

's wing in the

party and

's and

's Party of Peace and Development. The alliance was later joined by Revival, Nashi, and Trust Deeds; the alliance selected Evgeny Murayev as leader of the united party list. In the election, the mayors of

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) and

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(

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) were placed in the top ten of the nationwide party list. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party won six single-seat constituencies; the nationwide list, with 3.23% of the votes, did not overcome the 5% election barrier, so those six seats were the only seats that the party won in the election. In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections the party gained 206 deputies (0.48% of all available mandates). It saw success in

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, where it gained eight seats on the

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. By 2021, the party's activities had winded down significantly, and the Ukrainian press announced that the political project itself was ''de facto'' closed. The party's leading figure, oligarch

, announced the creation of a new political force in April 2021 on the basis of Opposition Bloc. In early May, one of the other key figures of Opposition Bloc

announced the creation of a new political force

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.https://inshe.tv/politics/2021-05-04/606636/ Борис Колесников все-таки создает новую партию. Но без Ахметова On 20 March 2022 Opposition Bloc was one of several political parties suspended by the

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during the

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, along with Derzhava, Left Opposition, Nashi,

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, and the Volodymyr Saldo Block. On 8 June 2022 the Eighth Administrative Court of Appeal banned the Opposition Bloc. The property of the party and all its branches were transferred to the state. The decision was open to an appeal at the

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. But the decision was not appealed, so on 25 July 2022 the party ceased to exist.

Election results

Verkhovna Rada

Presidential elections

Notes

References

External links

Official website
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