The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 5th convocation ( uk, Верховна Рада України V скликання, ) was the
convocation
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of the legislative branch of the
Verkhovna Rada
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 ...
,
Ukraine
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's
unicameral
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parliament from May 25, 2006 until November 23, 2007.
The 5th Verkhovna Rada's composition was based upon the results of the inconclusive
March 26, 2006 parliamentary election, a little over a year after the conclusion of the
Orange Revolution
The Orange Revolution ( uk, Помаранчева революція, translit=Pomarancheva revoliutsiia) was a series of protests and political events that took place in Ukraine from late November 2004 to January 2005, in the immediate afterm ...
. During the
2007 political crisis,
President
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Viktor Yushchenko
Viktor Andriyovych Yushchenko ( uk, Віктор Андрійович Ющенко, ; born 23 February 1954) is a Ukrainian politician who was the third president of Ukraine from 23 January 2005 to 25 February 2010.
As an informal leader of th ...
dissolved the parliament on April 2, 2007,
forcing the
subsequent snap election, which would decide the composition of the
6th and next convocation of parliament.
See also
*
Second Yanukovych Government
Second Yanukovych Government was a governing coalition of the Party of Regions, the Communist Party and the Socialist Party in Ukraine after the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election and the 2006 Ukrainian political crisis. Until 24 March 2007, ...
References
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Ukrainian parliaments
Fifth convocation members of the Verkhovna Rada
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