Political Party "European Capital"

Парцхаладзе Лев Ревазович
Информационно-аналитический центр "ЛІГА"

Ukrainian parliamentary elections 2006

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In February 2009 the party renamed itself Political Party "New Country".Політична партія "УДАР (Український Демократичний Альянс за Реформи) Віталія Кличка"
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in 2008, but expelled from the faction, for repeatedly voting differently from the faction, on 2 December 2010.

Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform

On a party congress, held on 24 April 2010, the Political Party "New Country" (founded in 2005 as Political Party "European Capital and renamed into "New Country" 14 months before April 2010) renamed itself into Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform and elected boxer Vitali Klitschko as its leader. The party officially became Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR) of Vitali Klitschko mid-July 2010. During the

2010 Ukrainian local elections The 2010 Ukrainian local elections took place on 31 October 2010,Klitschko To The Rescue?
Kyiv Post (12 January 2012) The Bloc of Vitali Klitschko faction in the Kyiv City Council changed its name to UDAR of Vitali Klitschko in February 2011. The party has a strong popularity in Kyiv. Ukr elections 2012 multimandate oblasts udar

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In September 2011 party leader Klitschko stated that the party was considering the possibility of merging with other political parties before contending in the

2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election The Ukrainian parliamentary election of 2012 took place on 28 October 2012.Civil Position where negotiating a unification. But Civil Position eventionally joined Batkivshchyna during these elections. UDAR became a partner of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany in November 2011. Udar is supported by the German government and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and received support in particular from Angela Merkel and also politicians from the conservative

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. According to information gained by the German magazine DER SPIEGEL, the target was to "set up Klitschko purposefully as a new strong man in Kiew - in order to counter this way the Kremlin's growing influence". Support consisted in logistics, training and joint performances. Assistance was also promised by

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and

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. UDAR did not join the

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; but on 22 January 2012 it did sign an agreement on joint actions with that alliance. Starting in March 2010 the party's popularity in opinion polls reached a level almost twice as high as the election threshold (which was raised to 5% in November 2011Parliament passes law on parliamentary elections
Kyiv Post (17 November 2011)). The election list of the party was a mixture of candidates who used to represent parties from all over the political spectrum of Ukraine. After a successful application the

started on 5 April 2012 the process of making UDAR an ''observer member'' of the organization.EPP accepts UDAR Party’s application to get observer status

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(5 April 2012)
Ukraine elections: `unfair play` of government authorities distorts outcome

(30 October 2012) In July 2012 party leader Klychko stated that his party would not cooperate with the Party of Regions in a new parliament. Early August 2012 the party complained its candidates for people's deputies (and all other parties not involved in the

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) suffered "psychological and physical pressure" and this "ten times higher than other parties". Two weeks before the 28 October

2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election The Ukrainian parliamentary election of 2012 took place on 28 October 2012.single-member constituencies in favour of Batkivshchyna candidates and Batkivshchyna withdrew 26 parliamentary candidates in favor of UDAR in an attempt to maximise votes for the opposition. In the election the party won 13.97% of the national votes and 6 constituencies (it had competed in 183 of the 225 constituencies) and thus 40 parliamentary seats.Proportional votes

,

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Support for UDAR was the least diversified at the regional level compared with the results of the other leading parties.After the parliamentary elections in Ukraine: a tough victory for the Party of Regions

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(7 November 2012) Independent candidates

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and Fedir Nehoi joined the UDAR parliamentary faction on 12 December 2012; the same day party leader Klitschko was elected to lead the party's faction. UDAR elects faction's leadership in parliament
Kyiv Post (12 December 2012) The party is coordinating its parliamentary activities with Batkivshchyna and Svoboda. Late December 2012 UDAR and the United National Movement from Georgia signed a cooperation agreement. In May 2013 UDAR, Batkivshchyna and Svoboda vowed to coordinate their actions during the

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. Party leader Klitschko confirmed on 28 February 2014 that he would take part in the

2014 Ukrainian presidential election Snap presidential elections held in Ukraine on 25 May 2014 resulted in Petro Poroshenko being elected President of Ukraine.Mayor of Kyiv in the

2014 Kyiv local election Local elections in Kyiv for the post of Mayor and members of Kyiv City Council took place on 25 May 2014, as part of the 2014 Ukrainian local elections.Parliament sets elections for Kyiv mayor and Kyiv City Council deputies for May 25

(25 February 2014) In the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election Klitschko endorsed the candidacy of Petro Poroshenko. Klitschko won Kyiv's mayoral elections with almost 57% of the votes.Klitschko officially announced as winner of Kyiv mayor election

(4 June 2014) Poroshenko was elected President of Ukraine on 25 May 2014. Klitschko was sworn in as Mayor on 5 June 2014.Vitali Klitschko sworn in as Kyiv mayor

(5 June 2014) The same day the Ukrainian parliament had deprived Klitschko of his MP mandate (Ukrainian MPs are not entitled to combine parliamentary activities with any other public employment).Klitschko becomes Kyiv Mayor officially
Ukrinform (5 June 2014)
Klitschko was deprived of parliamentary mandate, NovostiMira (5 June 2014)
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was elected to lead the party's faction in parliament on 7 June 2014.Fraction Klitschko Council headed by his "gray cardinal"
Ukrayinska Pravda (7 June 2014)

Merge into the Petro Poroshenko Bloc

On 2 September Kovalchuk stated that since his party and Petro Poroshenko Bloc had agreed to "joint participation in parliamentary elections" on 29 March 2014 the two parties were "in discussion" about "the format" for how to do so in the (late) October

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.Vitali Klitschko is at the top of this list, Klitschko vowed not to resign as incumbent Mayor of Kyiv.Pilots, combat, and journalists. Who goes to the new Verkhovna Rada

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(September 15, 2014)
Klitschko: I lead my team to Parliament
UDAR official website (14.09.2014)
Deadline for nomination of candidates running in early election to Rada expires
ITAR-TASS (September 15, 2014) Petro Poroshenko Bloc went on to win 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.People's Front which won 82 seats. However, People's Front did perform better than the Petro Poroshenko Bloc with 0.33% in the nationwide election under party lists (22.14% against 21.81%) but the party did win 69

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seats while People's Front won only 18 constituencies. On 28 August 2015 Petro Poroshenko Bloc and UDAR merged into 1 party, Petro Poroshenko Bloc. At the unifying congress (of 28 August 2015) Klitschko was elected as leader of this party. In 2017 UDAR was still registered as a political party and it employed two persons.In Ukraine, 2/3 of the parties showed zeroes in the financial statements
Ukrayinska Pravda (8 December 2017) According to former UDAR member and Ukrainian lawmaker

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it was necessary that "the party performs only the technical functions necessary in terms of Ukrainian legislation."

Return as a political party

On 18 May 2019 party leader Klitschko announced that the party would take part in the

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. On 4 June Klitschko offered former

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Mikheil Saakashvili to join the leadership of his party and to take part in the July 2019 early parliamentary elections with UDAR, Saakashvili turned down the offer. In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party only competed in 15 single-mandate constituencies. It failed to win any seats.CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections
Ukrinform (26 July 2019)
Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019
Ukrayinska Pravda (21 July 2019) The party's most successful candidate was who won 14.83% of the votes in constituency 89 located in

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(

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). Its second most successful candidate, Valentyn Mondryivskyi, gained 4.84% of the votes in Kyiv's

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. In the election for Mayor of Kyiv of the 2020 Kyiv local election UDAR nominated incumbent mayor Klitschko as their candidate.Klitschko reacted to support from Poroshenko's party: We are not bargaining
Ukrayinska Pravda (16 September 2020)
"Eurosolidarity" will support Klitschko in the elections in Kyiv
Ukrayinska Pravda (16 September 2020) Klitschko was last reelected in the election with 50.52% of the votes, in the first round of the election.Vitali Klitschko wins in first round of Kyiv mayor election
Ukrinform (6 November 2020) UDAR won 30 Kyiv City Council seats in the 2020 Kyiv local election.Results of the 2020 elections of the Kyiv City Council

In total in the whole of Ukraine the party gained 187 deputies (0.43% of all available mandates). In the elections for the Kyiv Oblast Council the party did not win any seats after finishing 9th place in the election.

Ideology and political positions

UDAR tends to avoid sensitive and polarising subjects and focuses instead on popular topics, such as more empowerment to ordinary Ukrainians and a ruthless campaign against

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, the indifference of the authorities, the lack of

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, inequality, and poverty.Q&A:Ukrainian parliamentary election
BBC News (23 October 2012)Ukraine election:President Yanukovych party claims win
BBC News (29 October 2012). The party wants to "unleash the power of the state and provide conditions for welfare". The party is in favor of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the European Union (EU). It has made no stance on a possible NATO membership of Ukraine. UDAR wants to overcome social inequality with "the abandonment of the idea of cheap labor". In education, the party wants to bring

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to "European standards" by "development of external testing and monitoring the quality of education". UDAR wants to return to a 12-year

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secondary education with specialized training in the last two classes and three cycles of learning in higher education – bachelor's degree, master's degree and postgraduate. It also wants to guarantee autonomy of educational institutions by legislation. The party wants to combat corruption in Ukraine with more transparency and the creation of an independent anti-corruption agency.Klitschko: We'll leave only seven nationwide taxes, root out government corruption
'' Kyiv Post'' (1 April 2012) UDAR wants to reduce the number of state agencies in order "to minimize the interaction of the citizen with an official". And it wants to simplify procedures for registering property. It wants to reduce the number of taxes from 23 to 7 and to generally simplify the taxing system. "Owners of the land for agricultural purposes" should only be citizens of Ukraine. UDAR wants to abolish the privileges of the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's parliament) and former

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and to reduce benefits for current parliamentarians. The party has pledged to "reboot" the court system, and "reinforce the control of the public over elections". The party is in favor of holding

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s after 150,000 signatures are collected. The party is in favor of elections with regional open lists and mayoral elections in two rounds. In

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, it favors a voting age of 16 (currently 18). It also wants to introduce in Ukraine a law on

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of the President of Ukraine. The party wants to simplify procedures for the establishment and registration of public and charitable organizations. In June 2013, the party's parliamentary faction voted for the denunciation of the

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.Rada fails to support bill on denunciation of Kharkiv accords on Black Sea Fleet basing in Ukraine

(19 June 2013)

Election results

Verkhovna Rada

Kyiv City Council

Leaders

Notes

References

External links

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(Official) website with UDAR candidates for the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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