| Front for Change Фронт Змін |
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| Leader | Arseniy Yatsenyuk[1][2][3] |
| Founded | June 26, 2007[1] (political party) December 25, 2008[2] (public organisation) |
| Headquarters | Kiev, Ukraine |
| Youth wing | The young activists of the Front for Change[4] |
| Ideology | Centrism, Agrarianism |
| International affiliation | None |
| Official colours | Olive |
| Website | |
| http://www.frontzmin.org/ | |
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Front for Change (Ukrainian: Фронт Змін) is a Ukrainian public organization[5][6][7] and a political party in Ukraine.[1] Both are led by Arseniy Yatseniuk.[1][3]
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The political party Front for Change was registered with the Ministry of Justice on June 26, 2007 and entered in the Register of political parties under number 140.[1]
In December 2008 candidate for the Ukrainian 2010 presidential elections Arseniy Yatsenyuk[8] founded the public organization Front of change.[2] Yatsenyuk is a member of Parliament elected as part of the list of the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc.
On April 12, 2010 the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine confirmed the political party Front for Change is now (also) led by Yatseniuk.[1]
A March 2010 poll predicted that the party would get 4.3% of the vote at the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.)[9] A May 2010 poll by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology showed that the party had the greatest support in western regions (9%), slightly lower support in central Ukraine (4%) and the least support in southern and eastern regions (2%).[10] In the 2010 local elections the party won representative in 20 of the 24 regional parliaments, it did not win seats in the Supreme Council of Crimea.[11]
In September 2011 Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc faction leader in the Ukrainian parliament Mykola Martynenko joined the party.[12]
The party For Ukraine! merged into Front for Change in December 2011.[13]
According to party leader Yatseniuk the party is financed by "about 28 representatives of medium-sized businesses and small businesses".[14]
Mayor of Uzhhorod Serhiy Ratushniak is alleged to have beaten a female campaigner of Front of Change early August 2009,[15] a criminal case was soon opened against Ratushniak.[16][17]