Party of Free Democrats
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Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The Party of Free Democrats (Template:Langx) is a political party in Ukraine led by Mykhailo Brodskyy.[1] It was registered in November 1999 as Yabluko (Template:Langx; Apple).[2] The party has about 1,000 members.[3]
History
Mykhailo Brodskyy, a member of the Hromada faction, formed a 14-member "Yabluko" faction in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) in mid-September 2000.[4]
During the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party won 1.2% of the popular vote and no seats (as Yabluko).[2]
In March 2005, the party was merged into the Batkivshchyna party, led by Yulia Tymoshenko.[5] In March 2007, however, Brodskyy announced the renewal of the party; renaming it to the Party of Free Democrats.[5]
During the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party failed again to win parliamentary representation.[2]
In late October 2009, The party nominated Brodskyy as its candidate for President of Ukraine in the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election.[1][6]
During the 2010 Ukrainian local elections, the party won representatives in municipalities and did particularly well in Cherkasy.[7] The party won one representative in the Cherkasy Oblast Council and 14 seats in the city council of Cherkasy.[8]
In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party competed in one constituency;[9][10] as it was defeated, the party continued to lack parliamentary representation.[9][11]
The party did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[12] In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party had two candidates in constituencies, but both lost.[9]
See also
References
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Election results of Yabluko, Chesno - ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Ukrainian parliament: sketching a political portrait, [Center for Policy Studies (25 September 2000)]
- ↑ a b Template:In lang Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Батьківщина" All-Ukrainian Union Batkivshchyna, RBC Ukraine
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- ↑ Template:In lang Сергій Одарич формуватиме більшість у міськраді Черкас, Cherkasy city council website (8 November 2010)
- ↑ Template:In lang Results of the elections, preliminary data, on interactive maps by Ukrayinska Pravda (8 November 2010)
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- ↑ Template:In lang Candidates, RBC Ukraine
- ↑ Party of Regions gets 185 seats in Ukrainian parliament, Batkivschyna 101 - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (12 November 2012)
- ↑ Alphabetical Index of parties in 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Central Election Commission of Ukraine
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