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The Political Party "Ukraine United" ( uk, Політична партія «Україна соборна»; Politychna Partiya "Ukrayina Soborna") is a
political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific ideological or p ...
in
Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...
registered in 2005.Політична партія "Україна Соборна"
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History

At the legislative elections, 2006 the party was part of the
Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch The Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch, ( uk, Український Народний Блок Костенка і Плюща, translit=Ukraïnskyj narodnyj blok Kostenka i Pljušča) is a defunct political alliance in Ukraine led b ...
. At the legislative elections, 2007 the party was part of
Ukrainian People's Bloc The Ukrainian People's Bloc ( uk, Український Народний Блок) is an electoral bloc in Ukraine. In the 30 September 2007 elections An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an ...
. Both times the blocs won no seats. The party is since October 2008 a member of the
electoral alliance An electoral alliance (also known as a bipartisan electoral agreement, electoral pact, electoral agreement, electoral coalition or electoral bloc) is an association of political parties or individuals that exists solely to stand in elections. E ...
''Ukrainian block'' ( uk, Український блок) led by Stepan Khmara. On 17 November 2011 the Ukrainian Parliament approved an election law that banned the participation of blocs of political parties in parliamentary elections.Parliament passes law on parliamentary elections
Kyiv Post The ''Kyiv Post'' is the oldest English-language newspaper in Ukraine, founded in October 1995 by Jed Sunden. History American Jed Sunden founded the ''Kyiv Post'' weekly newspaper on Oct. 18, 1995 and later created KP Media for his holdings. ...
(17 November 2011)
In the 2010 local elections the party won 4 seats in the
Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukrain ...
city council.Львівська «НС»: перші перемоги
, Party's official website (November 2, 2010)
The party did not participate in the 2012 parliamentary elections. And again not 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.Alphabetical Index of parties in 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Central Election Commission of Ukraine


References


External links


Official party website
(in Ukrainian) Political parties in Ukraine {{Ukraine-party-stub