Opposition Bloc
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Opposition Bloc
Опозиційний блок |
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| Leader | Yuriy Boyko |
| Founded | April 23, 2010 |
| Merger of | Party of Development of Ukraine, All-Ukrainian Union "Center", Ukraine – Forward!, Labour Ukraine, New Politics, "State Neutrality" |
| Preceded by | Party "Leading Force", (former members of Party of Regions) |
| Headquarters | Kiev |
| Ideology |
Social liberalism, Pro-Russia Regionalism Soft euroscepticism |
| European affiliation | None |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Blue, White |
| Verkhovna Rada |
44 / 450
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| Regions (2015) |
4,091 / 158,399
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| Website | |
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Opposition Bloc (Ukrainian: Опозиційний блок) is a Ukrainian political party that was founded in 2014 as 6 parties that did not endorse Euromaidan merged. In the 2014 election it won 29 seats.
American lobbyist Paul Manafort was instrumental in creating the party.
The party was registered at the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice on 23 April 2010 as "Leading force" (Ukrainian: Ведуча сила). The party was the led by .
The party did not participate in the 2012 parliamentary elections.
In September 2014 American lobbyist Paul Manafort was hired as an advisor to (former Manafort client) Viktor Yanukovych’s former head of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Serhiy Lyovochkin. Manafort was tasked with rebranding Party of Regions. Instead, he argued to help stabilize Ukraine, Manafort advised to create a new political party called Opposition Bloc. According to Ukrainian political analyst Mikhail Pogrebinsky “He thought to gather the largest number of people opposed to the current government, you needed to avoid anything concrete, and just become a symbol of being opposed".
It was planned that the biggest party in the previous 2012 parliamentary elections, Party of Regions, would be part of the Opposition Bloc in the 2014 parliamentary elections. This alliance was to be led by Serhiy Tihipko. But he refused to do so because in his opinion in this alliance there were "people tainted by corruption and to put it mildly, unpatriotic". Tihipko then became leader of (the revived) Strong Ukraine.
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