People's Front ( uk, Народний фронт; also translated as ''National Front'' or ''Popular Front'') is a

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and

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founded by

Arseniy Yatsenyuk Arseniy Petrovych Yatsenyuk ( uk, Арсеній Петрович Яценюк ; born 22 May 1974) is a Ukrainian politician, economist and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of Ukraine twice – from 27 February 2014 to 27 November 2014 and fr ...

and

Oleksandr Turchynov Oleksandr Valentynovych Turchynov ( uk, Олександр Валентинович Турчинов; born 31 March 1964) is a Ukrainian politician, screenwriter, Baptist minister and economist. He is the former Secretary of the National Sec ...

in 2014.Yatsenyuk became a leader of the "People's Front" political council, while Turchynov is a head of its headquarters

Ukrayinska Pravda ''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukraini ...

. 10 September 2014
Ukrainian PM, Parliament Speaker to Head Newly Formed Popular Front Party

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(10 September 2014) Many members of the new political entity were former members of

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including Yatsenyuk and Turchynov.Sobolev: Front for Change and Reform and Order Party to join Batkivschyna

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(11 June 2013)
Front for Change, Reforms and Order to dissolve for merger with Batkivshchyna - Sobolev

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(11 June 2013)
Sobolev heads "Batkivshchyna" in the Rada

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(20 March 2014)
The party won 82 seats 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.Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament

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

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

(8 November 2014) The party did not participate in the July

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History

The party was registered at the

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on 31 March 2014Yatseniuk elected head of political council of People's Front Party – congress decision

(10 September 2014) as "People's Action". On 12 August 2014 it was renamed to its current name. Late August 2014 the party

split amidst differences over key policies and the refusal to have the ballot lead by

. People's Front held its first party congress on 10 September 2014. At this congress Yatsenyuk was elected chairman of the political council and Turchynov was elected to lead its headquarters. At the time Yatsenyuk was

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and Turchynov was

Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada The Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Голова Верховної Ради України, Holova Verkhovnoi Rady Ukrainy) is the presiding officer of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's unicameral parliament. The chairman presides ...

. Several high-ranking members of Ukrainian territorial defense battalions, who at the time were fighting in the

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, were made part of the Party's "military council" (though not full party members). In his speech to the first party congress Yatsenyuk called for "unification and unity of all democratic forces" since this would be "the recipe for our victory". Many high-ranking Fatherland members became founding members of the party including

Lyudmyla Denisova Lyudmyla Leontiyivna Denisova; russian: Людмила Леонтьевна Денисова, translit=Lyudmila Leontyevna Denisova Arsen Avakov Arsen Borysovych Avakov hy, Արսեն Բորիսի Ավակով (born 2 January 1964) is a Ukrainian politician and businessman. From 2014 to 2021 he was Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs, first being appointed in the first cabinet of ...

Pavlo Petrenko Pavlo Dmitrovich Petrenko ( uk, Павло Дмитрович Петренко) is Ukrainian politician, jurist, lawyer. MP of Ukraine 7th convocation. Minister of Justice of Ukraine from 27 February 2014 until 29 August 2019. Education Aft ...

and Andriy Parubiy. In September 2014 it was reported that People's Front and the

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 ...

were in talks over joint participation in the forthcoming parliamentary election. By 12 September the two parties had reached only an agreement that the Poroshenko Bloc would not put forward candidates for 10 single-member constituencies to avoid competition with People's Front. The following day Yatsenyuk announced that People's Front would stand alone in the election: "We should be going into the elections together with the President, but I am not satisfied with the party of President Poroshenko. So we are different in camps, although we share the same viewpoints for the sake of change and reforms." Concerning the

involving pro-Russian separatists, the party position to end the conflict is ambiguous. According to political scientist Tadeusz A. Olszański the party is in favor of use of force to resolve the conflict. The first 10 candidates from the party list for the 2014 parliamentary election were: #

Tetiana Chornovol Tetiana Mykolayivna Chornovol ( uk, Тетя́на Микола́ївна Чорново́л; born 4 June 1979 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian journalist and civic activist, and one of the leaders in the Euromaidan protest ...

# Andriy Parubiy #

Andriy Teteruk Andriy Anatoliyovych Teteruk ( uk, Андрій Анатолійович Тетерук, born 15 May 1973) is a Ukrainian politician and the commander of the Myrotvorets battalion. Representing People's Front, he was elected to the Verkhovna Rad ...

Arsen Avakov Arsen Borysovych Avakov hy, Արսեն Բորիսի Ավակով (born 2 January 1964) is a Ukrainian politician and businessman. From 2014 to 2021 he was Ukraine's Minister of Internal Affairs, first being appointed in the first cabinet of ...

Viktoria Siumar Viktoria Petrivna Siumar ( uk, Вікто́рія Петрі́вна Сю́мар, born 23 October 1977) is a Ukrainian journalist and politician. Biography Siumar formerly worked as an anchor for Hromadske Radio, as a freelance journalist for Vo ...

Vyacheslav Kyrylenko Vyacheslav Anatoliiovych Kyrylenko ( uk, В'ячеслав Анатолійович Кириленко) is a Ukrainian politician; former Minister of Labor and Social Policy, Vice Prime Minister, former party leader of Our Ukraine and former ...

Liliya Hrynevych Liliia Mykhailivna Hrynevych ( uk, Лілія Михайлівна Гриневич, born 13 May 1965) Yuriy Bereza Yuriy Mykolayovych Bereza ( uk, Юрій Миколайович Береза; born 8 February 1970) is a Ukrainian politician and the commander of the Dnipro Battalion. In September 2014, he was awarded the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 3rd c ...

The vast majority of the party list were political newcomers. At the election, the party won the nationwide popular vote with 22.14% against 21.81% for the

, in addition to 18

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. The Petro Poroshenko Bloc however, won 69 constituencies for a total of 132 seats. The voters of the People's Front were mostly rural residents of

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and

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.SUBJECT FOR ANOTHER FRONT:how the second project Yatsenyuk fell down

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(2018) On 21 November 2014 the party became a member of the coalition supporting the current

second Yatsenyuk government The second Yatsenyuk government was created in Ukraine after the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election. On 2 December 2014, 288 People's Deputy of Ukraine, members (of the 423 Rada supports coalition-proposed government lineup

(2 December 2014)
Rada approves new Cabinet with three foreigners

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(2 December 2014)
Rada voted the new Cabinet

(2 December 2014) In a June 2015 opinion poll by

Sociological group "RATING" Rating ( uk, Рейтинг), or fully the Sociological group "Rating" ( uk, Соціологічнна група «Рейтинг»), is a Ukrainian independent, non-governmental research organization, that specializes in conducting all types ...

2.7% of the polled stated they would vote for People's Front. A Kyiv International Institute of Sociology poll of the same month gave the party 1.6%. According to Ukrainian expert political opinion the fast decline of the party's popularity was caused because voters blamed Yatsenyuk and his party for the rise in tariffs for utilities and a negative assessment of the Prime Ministership of Yatsenyuk. The party did not take part in the October 2015 local elections.Yatseniuk's People's Front refuses to nominate its candidates for local polls

(28 August 2015)
Poroshenko hobbles on

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(26 October 2015) (Following the fall of the second Yatsenyuk government) the party joined the coalition that supports the 14 April 2016 installed Groysman government. In the 23 December 2018

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for territorial communities representatives of the party were elected to village councils. It had nominated 247 candidates "People's Front" in the elections to the OTG received representation in most areas

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(25 December 2018) The party did not submit a list for the snap 2019 parliamentary elections and lost all of its seats, with some of its members running as independents in

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constituencies. In June 2020 one of the parties founders

became head of the 2020 Ukrainian local elections headquarters of the party

European Solidarity 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 ...

.Turchynov will head the Eurosolidarity headquarters and will look for effective managers

(30 June 2020) In this election 1 person won a local seat on behalf of People's Front.

Structure

Military council

The military council is a special body of People's Front. It develops proposals for strengthening of the defence system of Ukraine. The council was created on 10 September 2014 together with the political and coordinating councils of the party. It was formed by the party congress which also approved the council's composition. It included the Chief of Staff of the party and Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada

, Interior Minister

, coordinator of the "Information Resistance" blog, Lt. Col.

Dmytro Tymchuk Dmytro Borysovych Tymchuk ( uk, Дмитро́ Бори́сович Тимчу́к; 27 June 1972 – 19 June 2019) was a member of parliament of Ukraine, a Ukrainian military expert and blogger, an officer of the Ukrainian military reserve ('' Li ...

, former acting Head of the Presidential Administration and co-founder of the revived

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Serhiy Pashynskiy and former secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine,

Euromaidan Euromaidan (; uk, Євромайдан, translit=Yevromaidan, lit=Euro Square, ), or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of Political demonstration, demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protes ...

commandant and organizer of the Maidan self-defense units Andriy Parubiy. The council is made up of leading commanders of the territorial defense battalions: Andriy Biletsky, commander of the

Azov Battalion The Special Operations Detachment "Azov" (), also known as the Azov Regiment ( uk, Полк «Азов», translit=Polk "Azov") and formerly the Azov Battalion ( uk, батальйон «Азов», translit=Batalion "Azov"), is a unit of the ...

Yuriy Bereza Yuriy Mykolayovych Bereza ( uk, Юрій Миколайович Береза; born 8 February 1970) is a Ukrainian politician and the commander of the Dnipro Battalion. In September 2014, he was awarded the Order of Bohdan Khmelnytsky, 3rd c ...

, commander of the

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, Kostyantyn Mateichenko, commander of the Artemivsk battalion, Roman Pytski, commander of the Chernihiv battalion,

, commander of the Myrotvorets battalion, Yevhen Deydey, commander of the Kyiv-1 battalion, Mykola Shvalya, commander of the Zoloti Vorota battalion,

Ihor Lapin Ihor Lapin (born 28 May 1969, in Ivanychi) is a Ukrainian lawyer and politician, who is a former (2014-2019) People's Deputy of Ukraine. During the War in Donbass (eastern Ukraine) he was commander of the 2nd assault squadron "West" of the 24th B ...

, company commander of the

Aidar Battalion 24th Separate Assault Battalion "Aidar", also known as the Aidar Battalion, is an assault battalion of the Ukrainian Ground Forces. The unit took part in the war in Eastern Ukraine and had roughly 300-400 members in 2014. It was named after the ...

Serhiy Sydoryn, vice-battalion commander of the National Guard and Mykhailo Havryluk, a soldier of the Kyivska Rus battalion.

Political council

The founding political council included

Liliya Hrynevych Liliia Mykhailivna Hrynevych ( uk, Лілія Михайлівна Гриневич, born 13 May 1965) Vyacheslav Kyrylenko Vyacheslav Anatoliiovych Kyrylenko ( uk, В'ячеслав Анатолійович Кириленко) is a Ukrainian politician; former Minister of Labor and Social Policy, Vice Prime Minister, former party leader of Our Ukraine and former ...

, Andriy Parubiy, Oleksandr Turchinov,

and

Tetyana Chornovol Tetiana Mykolayivna Chornovol ( uk, Тетя́на Микола́ївна Чорново́л; born 4 June 1979 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Ukrainian journalist and civic activist, and one of the leaders in the Euromaidan protest ...

History

Structure

Military council

Political council

Election results

Verkhovna Rada

See also