New Life (party)

New Life
Leader Ihor Fedorenko[1][2]
Founded 2010
Kiev City Council
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Website
nove-zhittja.org.ua/
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New Life (Ukrainian: НОВЕ ЖИТТЯ) is a political party in Ukraine.

History

The party held was created on its first congress on April 17, 2010.[1] On October 5, 2010 the party changed the name of the party from "Freedom" (Ukrainian: ВОЛЯ) to "New Life".[1] In March 2011 the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice registered the party.[1][3] The Chairman of the party was and is Ihor Fedorenko (born in 1974).[1][2]

The party did not participate in the 2012 parliamentary elections.[4]

In the 2014 Kiev local election the party won 3 seats in the Kiev City Council.[5][6] In the simultaneously held mayoral elections the parties candidate Lesya Orobets finished second (after Vitali Klitschko who won with almost 57% of the votes) with 8.46%.[7][8] Orobets at the time was a member of the Ukrainian Parliament elected during the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election on the party list of Batkivshchyna.[9][10]

Orobets then left the party when in July 2014 when she created the new party Mighty Ukraine.[11]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 (Ukrainian) Registered 186 th political party in Ukraine - "New Life", Ukrainian Ministry of Justice (24.03.2011)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 (Ukrainian) Elections to the city council. Who is hiding behind the beautiful advertising, Glavcom (21 May 2014)
  3. ↑ (Ukrainian) Short info sheet, Information Centre "DATA"
  4. ↑ (Ukrainian) Results of voting in single constituencies in 2012 & Nation-wide list, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
  5. ↑ (Ukrainian) In Kyivrada are 9 parties - official results, Ukrayinska Pravda (3 June 2014)
    (Ukrainian) 60% of the new Kyivrada is filled by UDAR, Ukrayinska Pravda (4 June 2014)
  6. ↑ (Ukrainian) UDAR has 75% of the constituencies in Kyivrada, Ukrayinska Pravda (3 June 2014)
    (Ukrainian) 60% of the new Kyivrada is filled by UDAR, Ukrayinska Pravda (4 June 2014)
  7. ↑ Klitschko officially announced as winner of Kyiv mayor election, Interfax-Ukraine (4 June 2014)
  8. ↑ (Ukrainian) Orobets & Lyashko did not want to go down to the level of Kyivrada, Ukrayinska Pravda (4 June 2014)
  9. ↑ Портал Верховної Ради України http://gapp.rada.gov.ua/mps/info/page/7211
  10. ↑ (Russian) Short bio of Lesya Orobets, LIGA
  11. ↑ (Ukrainian) Lesya Orobets created a new party, Ukrayinska Pravda (21 August 2014)

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