European solidarity

European solidarity
Party leader	Petro Poroshenko
founding	February 28, 2001
Headquarters	Kiev
Alignment	Liberalism , conservatism , pro-European
Colours)	Blue yellow
Parliament seats	25/450
Website	http://solydarnist.org/

The party “European Solidarity” ( Ukrainian Європейська Солідарність European Solidarity ) is a political party in Ukraine . Before that, there was a predecessor party founded by the former Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko under the name Solidarnist ("Solidarity") , which from August 27, 2014 joined the Petro Poroshenko Block "Solidarity" ( Ukrainian Бло́к Петра́ Пороше́нка «» Солідарність “ Petra Poroshenka” ) Petra called.

The center-right party advocates rapprochement with the European Union and a peaceful solution to the Ukraine crisis .

history

In 2000, some members of the United Social Democratic Party of Ukraine resigned from their parliamentary group and founded their own group under the name Solidarnist . Several MPs who had entered parliament in 1998 through the Hromada and Peasant Party lists also joined the group. From the beginning, Petro Poroshenko acted as head of the parliamentary group.

Petro Poroshenko, founder of the party and former President of Ukraine

On November 17, 2000, the Solidarnist faction merged with five other parties and factions to form the Party of Regions , which in the following years became one of the most important parties. Poroshenko became deputy chairman of the new party, but soon fell out with the party leadership and wanted to join the electoral alliance Bloc Our Ukraine . To do this, however, he needed a party and this time revived Solidarnost as the official party, which was founded on February 28, 2001. As part of the Our Ukraine Bloc, she supported Viktor Yushchenko during the Orange Revolution .

The party then led a shadowy existence, no longer participating in elections or supporting other parties after the parliamentary elections of 2002 . Due to this inactivity, the Ministry of Justice canceled the registration certificate in December 2013. In early 2014, Petro Poroshenko became chairman of the small party National Alliance of Freedom and Ukrainian Patriotism Offensive . In fact, he incorporated them into Solidarnost, which formally no longer existed, also by renaming the party to All-Ukrainian Union Solidarnost in order to continue the Solidarnost brand. The party existed without an address, telephone number or website.

It was only actually revived after the Euromaidan and Poroshenko's election as president . However, as it had insufficient structures, it allied itself with the UDAR party of Kiev mayor Vitali Klitschko , who had already supported Poroshenko in the presidential election. Klitschko was the top candidate in the 2014 general election ; other UDAR politicians also ran for candidates on the BPP list and filled it by almost a third. For this purpose, Solidarnost was renamed the Petro Poroshenko Bloc on August 27, 2014 and the UDAR did not act as an independent force. Second on the list was the party chairman of the BPP, Yuriy Lutsenko , a former interior minister as a member of the Fatherland Party and imprisoned under Yanukovych from December 2010 to April 2013. In third place was Olha Bohomolez , a doctor and former Kiev city councilor who had treated numerous injured people during the Majdan protests and who won 1.91% of the vote in the presidential election . Fourth place was occupied by Volodymyr Hroysman , who was temporarily Deputy Prime Minister and as such briefly led the Ukrainian government in July 2014. Mustafa Dschemiljew was nominated for fifth place . He had led the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people until 2013 and left the Crimea after the annexation of the peninsula. Julij Mamtschur , Colonel of the Ukrainian Air Force, Maria Matios , Mykola Tomenko , Iryna Herashchenko and Vitaly Kovalchuk occupy places six to ten on the list . Number 11 on the list went to the Minister of Education and Science of Ukraine Serhiy Kwit , who was confirmed in this post after the election.

In the parliamentary elections it became the second strongest party behind the Popular Front by votes , but still won the most seats and started coalition negotiations with them for the purpose of forming a government. In the Yatsenyuk II cabinet formed in December 2014 , the party has eleven ministers, including the foreign, finance, economic and defense ministers.

On August 28, 2015, the party merged with Vitali Klitschko's UDAR party . Klitschko was elected chairman of the new party and called on other parties to join the new alliance as well.

Individual evidence

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