Lytvyn Bloc
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Lytvyn Bloc
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| Leader | Volodymyr Lytvyn |
| First Deputy | Serhiy Hrynevetsky |
| Parliamentary leader | Ihor Fedorovych Sharov |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Dissolved | 15 December 2012 |
| Ideology |
Centrism, Agrarianism |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Green |
The Lytvyn Bloc, formerly Lytvyn's People's Bloc, (Ukrainian: Блок Литвина, formerly Народний блок Литвина) was a centristpolitical alliance in Ukraine from 2006 till 2012 led by Volodymyr Lytvyn. It is one of successors of the previous political alliance For United Ukraine which fell apart after Party of Regions left it. In 2007 the bloc surprisingly managed to return to parliament as a union of the People's Party and the Labour Party. According to Lytvyn the party had 400,000 members in October 2009.
On 17 November 2011 the Ukrainian Parliament approved an election law that banned the participation of blocs of political parties in parliamentary elections.
During the 2006 parliamentary elections, the bloc was known as Lytvyn's People's Bloc and consisted of:
The bloc had been organized for participation in the 2006 parliamentary election. The electoral bloc's list was headed by:
In the election, which took place on 26 March 2006, the bloc won 2.44% of the popular vote and no seat in the Verkhovna Rada, which was one of the main surprises of the election.
In the early parliamentary election held on September 30, 2007, the Lytvyn Bloc consisted of
The bloc won 3.96% of the popular vote, with this result the bloc placed in fifth place, after the Communist Party and Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc. It won 20 out of 450 seats.
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