Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity"
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Bloc Petro Poroshenko Solidarity
Блок Петра Порошенка «Солідарність» |
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| Leader | Vitali Klitschko |
| Founded | 27 August 2014 (in its current form) |
| Headquarters | Kiev |
| Ideology |
Liberalism Pro-Europeanism |
| Political position | Centre |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Red, White |
| Slogan | Time to Unite |
| Verkhovna Rada |
143 / 450
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| Regions (2015) |
8,804 / 158,399
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The Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity" (Ukrainian: Блок Петра Порошенка «Солідарність», Blok Petra Poroshenka «Solidarnist'»), a political party in Ukraine, formed on 27 August 2014. However, it has its roots in a parliamentary group called Solidarity dating from 2000 and has existed since in various forms as a political outlet for Petro Poroshenko.
The party won 132 of the 423 contested seats in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, more than any other party.
On 28 August 2015 the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform merged into the party.
The party started in 2000 as a parliamentary faction called "Solidarity", set up by Petro Poroshenko, until then a member of the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) faction.Taras Kuzio claims that this happened with the help of then President Kuchma, who allegedly wanted to limit the influence of the SDPU(u). Many deputies elected in 1998 for the Peasant Party of Ukraine and Hromada joined the new parliamentary faction. Based on his parliamentary faction Poroshenko eventually established the Party of Ukraine's Solidarity. In 2000 that party merged into what would become the Party of Regions (later to become for a period the biggest party of Ukraine) and Poroshenko became a Party of Regions deputy.
In 2001 Porroshenko expressed interest in the creation of the Our Ukraine Bloc. However, in order to receive quote in Our Ukraine he had to join the bloc with his whole party. The Party of Ukraine's Solidarity failed to break away from the Party of Regions, therefore Poroshenko decided to create a new party with a similar name, the party "Solidarity". At the 2002 parliamentary elections Solidarity was able to join Our Ukraine. Top party members who received a parliamentary mandate on party list of the Our Ukraine electoral bloc in 2002 were Volodymyr Plyutynsky, Volodymyr Makeyenko, Eduard Matviychuk, Anatoliy Korchynsky, while a single constituency in Vinnytsia Oblast was won by Petro Poroshenko.
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