Opposition Bloc Опозиційний блок Оппозиционный блок | |
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Leader | Yevheniy Murayev |
Deputy Leader | Oleksandr Vilkul |
Chairman | Borys Kolesnikov |
Parliamentary Leader | Vadym Novynskyi |
Founded | 7 June 2019 |
Registered | 26 December 2018 |
Banned | 25 July 2022 |
Merger of | Opposition Bloc (2014) (Akhmetov's wing) Party for Peace and Development |
Preceded by | Opposition Bloc (2014) |
Succeeded by | Ukraine is Our Home |
Headquarters | Kyiv |
Ideology | Social liberalism[1][2][3] Regionalism[4][5] Russophilia[6][7][8] Euroscepticism[4] |
Political position | Centre[9] to centre-left[10][11][12] |
Affiliate parties | Nashi Revival Trust Deeds Strong Ukraine Christian Socialists Kernes Bloc Agrarian Party (united) For Case Studies |
Oligarch association | Donetsk Clan[13] |
Colours | Blue White |
Party flag | |
Website | |
opposition.com.ua | |
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Opposition Bloc[a], formerly called Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development[b] until June 2019, was a Ukrainian political party that was founded in 2019. On 8 June 2022, the party was banned in court.[14] The ban was not appealed and the party officially ceased to exist on 25 July of the same year.[15]
The creation of the party was the result of a schism in the Opposition Bloc party, a party of the same name founded in 2014. By January 2019, two wings of this party had nominated two different candidates for the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.[16][17][18] Yuriy Boyko was nominated by the party wing called Opposition Platform — For Life,[19] while a competing party wing wanted to nominate Oleksandr Vilkul as its candidate. The party wing supporting Vilkul formed a new party, Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development. That new party proceeded to nominate Vilkul as its presidential candidate.[16] In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the new party won six single-seat constituencies, and its nationwide list won 3.23% of the votes, failing to overcome the 5% election barrier.[20]
Legally, Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development is the successor of the Industrial Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Індустріальна Україна, Russian: Индустриальная Украина)[16] founded in 2014.[21]
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