| Unity Єдність |
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| Leader | Ivan Ivanovych Ahiy[1][2] |
| Founded | October 16, 1999[3] |
| Headquarters | Kiev, Ukraine |
| International affiliation | None |
| Official colours | Blue |
| Politics of Ukraine Political parties Elections |
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Unity (Ukrainian: Єдність) is a political party in Ukraine created in 1999 in protest of the then politics.[3] The party was led by the former mayor of Kiev Oleksandr Omelchenko but in early 2008 he temporally halted his party membership and is now a member of Our Ukraine-Peoples Self Defence.[1]
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At the 2002 legislative elections, it was part of an alliance (also called Unity) that won 1.1% of the popular vote and 4 out of 450 seats.
The alliance consisted of:
During the 2006 parliamentary elections the party was part of a electoral alliance led by Yevhen Marchuk[4] (Electoral Bloc "Yevhen Marchuk - "Unity") which didn't make it into parliament winning only 0,06% of the votes.[5]
The alliance consisted of[4]:
The party did not run during the 2007 elections but advised its voters to vote for Forward, Ukraine! or Peoples Self-defence.[6]
In the 2010 local elections Unity won 22 representatives in the Vinnytsia Oblast Council (regional parliaments of Vinnytsia Oblast).[7]