People's Front (; also translated as ''National Front'' or ''Popular Front'') is a

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founded by Arseniy Yatsenyuk and

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

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. 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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Televiziyna Sluzhba Novyn (20 March 2014)
The party won 82 seats in the

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.Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament

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(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 Ukrainian Ministry of Justice 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 led by Arseniy Yatsenyuk. 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

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. 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, Arsen Avakov, Pavlo Petrenko and Andriy Parubiy. In September 2014 it was reported that People's Front and the Petro Poroshenko Bloc 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: # Arseniy Yatsenyuk # Tetiana Chornovol #

# Andriy Parubiy # Andriy Teteruk # Arsen Avakov # Viktoria Siumar # Vyacheslav Kyrylenko # Liliya Hrynevych # Yuriy Bereza 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 Petro Poroshenko Bloc, 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 central Ukraine.SUBJECT FOR ANOTHER FRONT:how the second project Yatsenyuk fell down
Civil movement "Chesno" (2018) On 21 November 2014 the party became a member of the coalition supporting the current

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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" 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 FPTP constituencies. In June 2020 one of the parties founders

became head of the 2020 Ukrainian local elections headquarters of the party European Solidarity.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 Arsen Avakov, coordinator of the "Information Resistance" blog, Lt. Col. Dmytro Tymchuk, 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,

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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, Yuriy Bereza, commander of the Dnipro Battalion, Kostyantyn Mateichenko, commander of the Artemivsk battalion, Roman Pytski, commander of the Chernihiv battalion, Andriy Teteruk, commander of the Myrotvorets battalion, Yevhen Deydey, commander of the Kyiv-1 battalion, Mykola Shvalya, commander of the Zoloti Vorota battalion, Ihor Lapin, company commander of the Aidar Battalion 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 Arsen Avakov, Liliya Hrynevych, Vyacheslav Kyrylenko, Pavlo Petrenko, Andriy Parubiy, Oleksandr Turchinov, Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Tetyana Chornovol.

Election results

Verkhovna Rada

References

External links

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"People's Front" presented its candidates

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