Republican Platform () is a

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. It was the first registered

, created on November 5, 1990Українська республіканська партія „Собор“
Database DATA by the Ministry of Justice of UkrSSR. RP was founded earlier that year in place of the

Ukrainian Helsinki Group The Ukrainian Helsinki Group () was founded on November 9, 1976, as the Ukrainian Public Group to Promote the Implementation of the Helsinki Accords on Human Rights () to monitor human rights in Ukraine. The group was active until 1981 when all ...

in April 1990.

Previous names

*1990 – 2002: Ukrainian Republican party *2002 – 2011: Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor" ()Одна з партій НУНС перейменувалася та змінила голову

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(3 December 2011) *2011 – 2015: Ukrainian Platform "Sobor" *2015: Republican platform

History

November 1976 – Ukrainian community groups was established to promote the implementation of the Helsinki agreements. Almost all members of this

were subsequently repressed; four of them ( V. Stus, Yu. Lytvyn, O. Tykhyi, V. Marchenko) died in Soviet camps. March 1988 – Ukrainian Helsinki Union (UKhS) was formed. Since 1989, UKhS has moved to open propaganda activity, promoting the independence of Ukraine. April 29–30, 1990 – Ukrainian Republican Party (URP) was established in the place of the UKhS. The party was registered on November 5, 1990 by the Ministry of Justice of the

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as the first political party in Ukraine. A 1992 split in the party resulted in the creation of the rival Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party (UKRP) led by Stepan Khmara. In the 1994 parliamentary elections the URP core party obtained nine seats initially, adding three more by the end of the year. During the

1998 Ukrainian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 29 March 1998.Dieter Nohlen, Nohlen, D & Stöver, P (2010) ''Elections in Europe: A data handbook'', p1976 The Communist Party of Ukraine remained the largest party in the Verkhovna Rada, winning ...

the party was part (together with

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& Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party) of the Election Bloc "National Front" () which won 2,71% of the national votes and 6 ( single-mandate

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) seats.State-Building: A Comparative Study of Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Russia
by Verena Fritz,

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, 2008, (page 353) In January 2001 the "National Front" parliamentary faction had grown to 17 deputies. After being part of the National Salvation CommitteeAbout Tymoshenko
, Official website of

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, 2004, , page 4295 the party became part of the

Yulia Tymoshenko Electoral Bloc The Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc () was the name of the bloc of political parties in Ukraine led by Yulia Tymoshenko since 2001. In November 2011, the participation of blocs of political parties in parliamentary elections was banned.

alliance during the Ukrainian 2002 parliamentary elections.Виборчий блок політичних партій "Виборчий блок Юлії Тимошенко"

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(December 22, 2001)Вони – Блок Юлії Тимошенко

(January 25, 2002) On April 21, 2002 the party merged with the Ukrainian People's Party "Sobor" as the Ukrainian Republican Party "Sobor".Злилися УРП і "Собор": Матвієнко – голова партії, Лук'яненко – голова ради старійшин

(April 21, 2002) On 15 October 2012 the party withdrew itself from the national list of the

2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 28 October 2012.Parli ...

. In the election it did not win any

constituencies An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...

(it had competed in 12 constituencies) and thus failed to win parliamentary representation.Proportional votes

,

In the

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the participated in 6 constituencies; but its candidates lost in all of them and thus the party won no parliamentary seats.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)

Local elections

2010

In the 2010 local elections the party won a few representatives in 3 regional parliaments, all in

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.Results of the elections, preliminary data, on interactive maps
by

(November 8, 2010)

Elections

References

External links

Official site
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