Revival (Ukraine)
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Revival
Відродження |
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| Leader | Viktor Bondar |
| Founded | 15 June 2004 (party), 27 February 2014 (Economic Development), 5 June 2015 (merger) |
| Ideology |
Developmentalism Pro-Europeanism |
| Political position | Centre-left |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Yellow and blue |
| Verkhovna Rada |
23 / 450
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| Regions (2015) |
1,733 / 158,399
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| Website | |
| vidrodzhennya.org.ua | |
Revival (Ukrainian: «Відродження», the name can also be translated as Renaissance) is a political party in Ukraine established in June 2004 by Heorhiy Kirpa. In December of the same year Kirpa died from a gun wound (officially suicide). The party never gained parliamentary seats in national elections.
Since 5 June 2015, when Revival (formerly Economic Development until 6 March 2015), a non-party faction in Parliament, merged with the party, it has 22 of 450 seats in Parliament.
The party was registered at the Ministry of Justice on 15 June 2004 and its chairman was then Minister of Transportation and Communication and director of Ukrzaliznytsia Heorhiy Kirpa. The party supported Viktor Yanukovych during the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election. Kirpa was found dead on 27 December 2004. Early next month the police concluded he had killed himself.
During the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary elections the party scored 0.96%, finishing 12th out of 45 participants, and did not gain any parliamentary seats. The party did not participate in the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary elections and the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary elections.
During the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary elections the party scored 0.19% and again no seats.
Economic Development was created on 27 February 2014 by MP Anatoliy Kinakh who had recently left the Party of Regions faction. The co-leader of the group was elected Vitaliy Khomutynnik.
Initially accounted for 33 deputies, the group included 41 MPs by the end of the seventh parliamentary convocation. Most of them had shortly before been a member of the Party of Regions faction, and many retained their membership within the Party. Kinakh claimed to have created the faction to restart the negotiations with the European Union on the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement and its Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement.
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