Strong Ukraine
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Strong Ukraine
Сильна Україна |
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| Leader | Serhiy Tyhypko |
| Founded | 23 April 2014(re-established) 19 June 1999 |
| Dissolved | 17 March 2012 |
| Merged into | Party of Regions |
| Ideology |
Liberalism Centrism |
| Political position | Centre |
| International affiliation | None |
| Colours | Yellow and blue |
| Verkhovna Rada |
1 / 450
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| Regions (2015) |
0 / 158,399
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| Website | |
| silnaukraina |
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Strong Ukraine (Ukrainian: Сильна Україна Syl'na Ukrajina); former Labour Party Ukraine (Ukrainian: Трудова партія України), is a political party in Ukraine that was re-established in April 2014. It was originally registered in August 1999 and dissolved in March 2012 after it had merged with the Party of Regions on 17 March 2012. Since late 2009 the party was and is the main vehicle of billionaire Serhiy Tihipko. After the parties merger Tihipko became a member of the Party of Regions. On 7 April 2014 the political council of this party expelled Tihipko from the Party of Regions.
The party claimed to have over 80,000 members in mid-May 2010.
In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party won one constituency parliamentary seat.
Founded on 19 June 1999 as Labour Party Ukraine it did not participate in the legislative elections of 30 March 2002.
In the 2006 elections, the party failed as part of "Bloc Borys Olijnyk and Myhailo Syrota" to win parliamentary representation (the Bloc won 0,08% of the votes).
In the 2007 parliamentary elections the party was part of the Lytvyn Bloc alliance, that won 20 out of 450 seats.
On 28 November 2009, at the 10th Congress, Labour Party Ukraine was renamed Strong Ukraine.
Strong Ukraine endorsed its new leader Serhiy Tihipko (former partyleader of Labour Ukraine), also elected in November 2009, in the Ukrainian presidential election, 2010. Fellow billionaire Oleksandr Kardakov was another influential member of the party.
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