| UDAR of Vitaliy Klychko УДАР Віталія Кличка |
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| Leader | Vitaliy Klychko[1][2] |
| Founded | April 24, 2010[3] Legally registered on 14 March 2005[1] |
| Headquarters | Kiev |
| International affiliation | None |
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| klichko.org | |
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UDAR of Vitaliy Klychko (Ukrainian: УДАР Віталія Кличка) (UDAR («УДАР»: (English: STRIKE) stands for Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (Ukrainian: Український демократичний альянс за реформи)) is a political party in Ukraine headed by Ukrainian professional heavyweight boxer and the current WBC world heavyweight champion Vitali Klitschko.[2] Legally it is the successor of Political Party "European Capital" (Ukrainian: Політична партія „Європейська столиця“) which was registered in March 2005.[1] In its current form the party was founded on April 24, 2010, on the basis of the Vitaliy Klychko Bloc (Ukrainian: Блок Віталія Кличко), a local political alliance in Kiev (the capital of Ukraine).[3][4]
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The Political Party "European Capital" was registered in March 2005 (its party-leader was Ukrainian businessman Lev Partshaladze[5][6]) and the party gained 0.04% of the votes during the Ukrainian parliamentary elections 2006; the party did not participate in the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary elections.[1] In February 2009 the party renamed itself Political Party "New Country".[7][1] Lev Partshaladze was elected into the Kiev city council for the Vitaliy Klychko Bloc in 2008, but expelled from the faction, for repeatedly voting differently then the faction, on December 2, 2010.[6][8]
The Vitaliy Klychko Bloc where two local political coalitions in the Capital of Ukraine, Kiev who contented in two local elections there. On December 10, 2005 the parties PORA and Reforms and Order Party agreed to create a bloc "Civic party" PORA-ROP " that would content in the March 26, 2006 Kiev city council elections.[9] The bloc was led by Vitaliy Klychko a Ukrainian professional boxer and current WBC heavyweight champion and became Block Vitali Klitschko "PORA-ROP" which won 14 seats in the 2006 election.[9] Klychko thus is a deputy of the Kiev City Council since April 2006[10] The bloc felt apart very soon after the election.[9] During the simultaneously held elections for Mayor of Kiev Klychko received 26 percent of votes.[11]
During the 2008 Kiev local election the Vitaliy Klychko Bloc was a combination of the parties People's Movement of Ukraine, Political Party "European Capital" and "Ukrainian Social Democrats" and it won 10.61% of the votes and 15 seats in the Kiev City Council.[12] During the simultaneously held elections for Mayor of Kiev Klychko received 17.9 percent of votes.[13]
14 October 2008 Vitaliy Klychko announced that participation of his bloc in the next Ukrainian parliamentary election was possible.[14] He added that a decision on the participation in the race will be definitely taken by the entire political team making up the Bloc of Klychko, not by him personally.[15] A possible candidate to run with the Vitaliy Klychko Bloc in an electoral bloc was the European Party of Ukraine.[15][16]
On a party congress, held on 24 April 2010, the Political Party "New Country" (founded in 2005 as Political Party "European Capital and renamed into "New Country" 14 months before April 2010[1][7]) renamed itself into Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform and elected boxer Vitali Klitschko as its leader.[7][17] The party officially became Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR) of Vitaliy Klychko mid-July 2010.[18]
During the 2010 Ukrainian local elections the party won representatives in municipalities and Oblast Councils (regional parliaments).[19][20][21] In an opinion poll of March 2010 the party was placed at reaching 1% of the total votes of the next Ukrainian parliamentary election.[22] In a similar poll of December 2010 it was placed at being 0.3 behind the 3% election threshold.[23] Since April 2011 various polls place the party predicated results slightly above the election threshold (which was raised to 5% in November 2011[24]).[25][26][27][28]
The Bloc of Vitaliy Klychko faction in the Kiev City Council changed its name to UDAR of Vitaliy Klychko in February 2011.[29] The party has a strong popularity in Kiev.[30]
In September 2011 party-leader Klychko stated that the party is considering the possibility of merging with other political parties before contending in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary elections.[31] As of December 2011 UDAR of Vitaliy Klychko and Civil Position are negotiating a unification.[32]
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