People's Union "Our Ukraine"

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People's Union "Our Ukraine" Народний Союз Наша Україна




Leader	Vyacheslav Kyrylenko

Founded	2005-03-05
Headquarters

Political Ideology	Liberalism, Conservatism, Reformism
Political Position
International Affiliation	European People's Party
Colours	Orange

Website	http://www.razom.org.ua/

See also	Politics of Ukraine Political parties Elections in Ukraine

People's Union "Our Ukraine" (Narodnyi Soyuz Nasha Ukrayina, NSNU) is a political party of Ukraine, the continuation of the Viktor Yushchenko Bloc Our Ukraine (Blok Viktora Yushchenka Nasha Ukrayina) electoral alliance. The NSNU was formally launched on March 5, 2005 by the group of politicians appointed by Yushchenko, but failed to attract most parties that had been members of the Bloc, which refused to be absorbed. So NSNU is actually not the merger of all the former "Our Ukraine" partners.

The constituent congress, held in Kyiv and attended by 6,000 delegates from all oblasts, elected Yushchenko (who received membership card No. 1) as honorary chairman, deputy prime minister Roman Bezsmertnyi as head of the party's Presidium and Yuriy Yekhanurov as head of the party's Central Executive Committee.

At the parliamentary elections on 26 March 2006, the party took part in the new Our Ukraine bloc.

NSNU is an observer member of the European People's Party (EPP). In the parliamentary elections on 30 September 2007, the party was part of the Our Ukraine alliance, that won 72 out of 450 seats.

[edit] External links

(Ukrainian) NSNU page at NU Bloc's web site

v • d • e Political parties in Ukraine

Parliamentary blocs and parties	Party of Regions (175) Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (156) (All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" • Reforms and Order Party • Ukrainian Social Democratic Party) Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (72) (People's Union "Our Ukraine" • Forward, Ukraine! • People's Movement of Ukraine • Ukrainian People's Party • Ukrainian Republican Party Assembly • Christian Democratic Union • European Party of Ukraine • PORA • Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists • Motherland Defenders Party) Communist Party of Ukraine (27) Lytvyn Bloc (20) (People's Party • Labour Party of Ukraine)

Extra-parliamentary blocs and parties	Socialist Party of Ukraine People's Opposition Bloc of Natalia Vitrenko (Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine • Rus'-Ukrainian Union) Ukrainian Regional Asset (Popular Democratic Party • Democratic Party of Ukraine • Republican Christian Party) Opposition Bloc "Ne Tak" (Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) • Republican Party of Ukraine • Women for the Future • All-Ukrainian Union "Center") Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch (Party of Free Peasants and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine • Political Party "Cathedral Ukraine") Bloc of the Party of Pensioners of Ukraine (Party of Pensioners of Ukraine • Party of Protection of Pensioners of Ukraine) KUCHMA Electoral Bloc of Political Parties (Party "Union" • All-Ukrainian Union "Center") Other parties: Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs • Party of Greens of Ukraine • Viche • All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom"

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