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Political party in Ukraine
"Yabluko" redirects here. For the Russian party, see
Yabloko .
The Party of Free Democrats (
Ukrainian : Партія Вільних Демократів ) is a political party in
Ukraine led by
Mykhaylo Brodskyy .
[1] It was registered in November 1999 as Yabluko (
Ukrainian : Яблуко ; Apple ).
[2] The party has about 1,000 members.
[3]
History
Former logo
Mykhaylo Brodskyy (a member of the
Hromada faction) formed a 14-member "Yabluko" faction in the
Ukrainian Parliament mid-September 2000.
[4]
At the
parliamentary elections on 30 March 2002, the party won 1.2% of the popular vote and no seats (as Yabluko ).
[2]
In March 2005, the party was self-liquidated and merged into
Fatherland Party (Batkivschuna ) led by
Yulia Tymoshenko .
[5] But in March 2007
Mykhaylo Brodskyy announced the renewal of the party; renaming it Party of Free Democrats .
[5]
On 30 September 2007,
elections , the party failed again to win parliamentary representation.
[2]
The party nominated Brodskyy as its candidate for
President of Ukraine in the
2010 Ukrainian presidential elections late October 2009.
[1]
[6]
During the
2010 Ukrainian local elections , the party won representatives in municipalities and did particularly well in
Cherkasy .
[7]
In the
2010 local elections , the party won 1 representative in the regional parliaments of the
Cherkasy Oblast and 14 seats in the city council of
Cherkasy .
[8]
In the
2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party competed in/for 1
constituency (seat);
[9]
[10] but it lost in it and thus missed 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 2 candidates in constituencies, but both lost.
[9]
See also
References
^
a
b
"Leader of Free Democrats Party Brodskyi Applies To CEC To Register Him Candidate For President" . www.ukranews.com . Archived from
the original on 31 October 2009. Retrieved 20 October 2009 .
^
a
b
c (in Ukrainian)
Партія вільних демократів , Database DATA
Election results of Yabluko ,
Chesno
^ Neef, Christian; Schepp, Matthias (14 January 2010).
"Disillusionment in Ukraine: The Sad End of the Orange Revolution" .
Der Spiegel .
ISSN
2195-1349 . Retrieved 28 December 2023 .
^
Ukrainian parliament: sketching a political portrait, [Center for Policy Studies (25 September 2000)]
^
a
b (in Ukrainian)
Всеукраїнське об'єднання "Батьківщина" All-Ukrainian Union Batkivshchyna ,
RBC Ukraine
^
"CEC registered two more candidates for the President UKRAINE" .
Central Election Commission of Ukraine . Central Election Commission of Ukraine. Archived from
the original on 14 August 2011. Retrieved 2 November 2009 .
^ (in Ukrainian)
Сергій Одарич формуватиме більшість у міськраді Черкас ,
Cherkasy city council website (8 November 2010)
^ (in Ukrainian)
Results of the elections, preliminary data, on interactive maps by
Ukrayinska Pravda (8 November 2010)
^
a
b
c
"Електоральна пам'ять" . ukr.vote .
^ (in Ukrainian)
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
External links
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