European Party of Ukraine
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European Party of Ukraine
Європейська партія України |
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| Leader | Mykola Katerynchuk |
| Founded | December 2006 |
| Headquarters | Kiev |
| Ideology | Liberalism |
| Political position | Centre |
| European affiliation | Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Party |
| Colours | Blue |
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| http://www.epu.in.ua/ | |
The European Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Європейська партія України) is a Ukrainian political party registered by the Ministry of Justice on August 3, 2006. Its ideology is social-liberalism, when the state should maintain harmonious social relations: create appropriate conditions for free competition, to prevent the formation of market monopolies and protect the vulnerable population strata. They advocate reforms that they claim will increase social standards of life of Ukrainians to the European level. They support integration of Ukraine into the European Union. Initially, the party was headed by Mykola Moskalenko. In August 2013 the party had more than 5,000 members.
The date of registration of the European Party of Ukraine by the Ministry of Justice is August 3, 2006. The first party leader was Mykola Moskalenko, and Victor Zavalnyy was his deputy. Since September 2007 Mykola Katerynchuk has been the leader of the party.
The European Party joined the single "megablock" of national democratic parties "Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc" in the early 2007 parliamentary elections. The party's people's deputy according to the block’s list was Mykola Katerynchuk. After polling 14.15% of the votes, the block was the third biggest block and got 72 seats in the Parliament.
During the 2008 Kiev local election the party was part of Mykola Katerynchuk Bloc that won 3.47% of the votes and 5 seats in the Kiev City Council. Mykola Katerynchuk ran for the post Mayor of Kiev.
During the presidential elections 2010 the European Party of Ukraine supported Yulia Tymoshenko.
During the 2010 Ukrainian local elections the party won no representatives in Oblast Councils (regional parliaments); its biggest success was winning 1 seat in the city council of Lutsk. According to the results of local elections the European party won 150 local government seats.
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