Blok Lytwyna
The Lytwyns block ( German for Blok Lytwyna ) or people 's block Lytwyns was a Ukrainian party alliance around the former parliamentary president Volodymyr Lytwyn . It was dissolved in 2012 after the formation of electoral alliances for parliamentary elections was banned in 2011.
The "Lytwyns People's Block" 2006
Ahead of the 2006 parliamentary elections , the then president who founded the Verkhovna Rada , Volodymyr Lytvyn, a party alliance under the name of People's Block Lytwyns ( Narodnyj Lytvyn Bloc ) from his People's Party ( Narodna partija ), the Left Party Justice ( Sprawedlywist ) and the Democratic Agrarian Party ( Ukrajinska Seljanska Demokratytschna Partija ). On the list of the people's block Lytwyns, in addition to Volodymyr Lytwyn et al. a. the singer Sofija Rotaru , the cosmonaut Leonid Kadenjuk , the historian Valery Smolij and the chairman of the Supreme Court of Ukraine , Vasyl Malyarenko . The electoral alliance failed with 2.44% of the vote at the three percent hurdle and thus missed entry into the Rada.
The "Blok Lytwyna" 2007
Before the parliamentary elections in 2007 , a new electoral alliance around Volodymyr Lytwyn, called Block Lytwyns , was formed. From the old party alliance only Lytwyn's People's Party remained. The second partner was the Labor Party of Ukraine ( Trudowa Partija Ukrajiny ). The first five list places in the 2007 elections occupied Volodymyr Lytwyn, Serhij Hrynewezkyj , Mykola Derkach , Oleksij Harkuschka and Viktor Pylypyschyn . With 3.96% of the vote, they entered the new parliament with 20 members. The Lytwyns block faction was the smallest of the new Rada.
After the elections, the bloc negotiated with Viktor Yanukovych's Party of Regions about forming a coalition government. However, the two parties alone did not have a majority of seats in parliament. The western-oriented forces Bloc Julia Tymoshenko and NU - NS also tried to get the Bloc Lytwyns, but then formed the government alone - with an extremely narrow parliamentary majority. After the break of this coalition, the Lytwyn Bloc's entry into the government came up again. In 2012, the Strong Ukraine party , the former Labor Party, merged with the Party of Regions , and the People's Party stood alone in the elections.