Pora!
Pora! ( ukr. Пора! = "It's time!") is a Ukrainian youth organization and since 2006 also a political party that played a major role in the outcome of the 2004 presidential elections in Ukraine during the orange revolution . During the mass protests in November and December 2004, which ultimately led to Viktor Yushchenko's presidency, her political orientation was close to Yulia Tymoshenko , who was considered to be more radical . Pora! stressed that she was fighting not for the victory of the opposition leader, but for the holding of free and fair elections, but given the factual majority of Yushchenko's voters, this was synonymous.
history
Pora! formed in 2003 as a movement to coordinate actions against the Ukrainian leadership under President Kuchma . Its members, like the employees of the independent Internet newspaper Ukrajinska Pravda , were exposed to repression by the police and the state. In their fight against what they saw as autocratic methods, forms of civil disobedience and modern public relations and mobilization work were used. The tour of Pora! was involved in the coordination of the extra-parliamentary opposition in November and December 2004, the movement organized the tent city, which blocked the promenade in the center of Kiev for several weeks during the mass protests.
cleavage
Pora! has consisted of a "black" and a "yellow" wing since its early days. The contrast strengthened after the presidential election. While the black pora! As an NGO focused on the democratic control of the Ukrainian government, the yellow pora transformed! into a political party that participated in parliamentary elections from 2006.
The party "Pora!" participated in the 2006 parliamentary elections together with the Reform and Order Party under the top candidate Wladimir Klitschko , but failed because of the three percent hurdle for entry into parliament. In the 2007 elections she ran within the Nascha Ukrajina - Narodna Samooborona electoral bloc and was represented by the alliance in the national parliament.
The black (NGO) Pora! changed her name to OPORA (Ukrainian: ОПОРА) for the 2006 parliamentary elections.
background
The idea of founding Pora! was inspired by the experiences of the Serbian and Georgian student and youth organizations Otpor and Kmara . Both carried out political campaigns in their countries that contributed to the election of President Slobodan Milošević in 2000 and Eduard Shevardnadze in 2003.
Funding received Otpor, Kmara and Pora! also from abroad, especially from US foundations such as Freedom House and USAID , theoretical guidance, especially through the theories of non-violent regime change by Gene Sharp .
See also
literature
- Florian Strasser: Civil Society Influences on the Orange Revolution. The mass nonviolent movement and the 2004 Ukrainian election crisis ; ibidem 2006; ISBN 3898216489 , especially chapter 2.4.2
- Renate Flottau, Erich Follath, Uwe Klußmann, Georg Mascolo, Walter Mayr, Christian Neef: Die Revolutions-GmbH , Der Spiegel, November 4, 2005
Web links
- Website of the "Hromadjanska partija PORA" (party founded by the "yellow wing" of the Pora!) ( Memento from September 15, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- OPORA website
Individual evidence
- ↑ DEMOCRACY IN UKRAINE AFTER THE ORANGE REVOLUTION ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Vitaliy Shyyan , University of Minnesota (September 2008)
- ↑ Paul Blumenthal, US Obscures Foreign Aid To Ukraine, But Here's Where Some Goes , Huffington Post , March 7, 2014
