Proposition Пропозиція | |
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Chairman | Andriy Pylchenko [1] |
Founded | 19 June 2020[2] [1] |
Headquarters | Dnipro [1] |
Ideology | Regionalism [2] |
Colours |
Red Blue Grey |
Verkhovna Rada | 0 / 450 |
Regions (2020) [3] | 35 / 1,780 |
Website | |
proposition.org.ua | |
Proposition ( Ukrainian: Пропозиція) is a Ukrainian political party founded in 2020 by the mayors of six major cities: Borys Filatov of Dnipro, Andriy Raykovych of Kropyvnytskyi, Oleksiy Kaspruk of Chernivtsi, Oleksandr Senkevych of Mykolaiv, Andriy Dyachenko of Kakhovka, and Serhii Sukhomlyn of Zhytomyr. [2] [1] The party has been nicknamed the "Party of Mayors". [4] [2] [1]
The Proposition party is the successor to the New European Ukraine political party, which was registered in December 2014. [1] The New European Ukraine party did not take part in the 2015 Ukrainian local elections, nor in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary elections. [1] The party's name was changed to Proposition in April 2020 when Andry Pylchenko from Dnipro became its new leader. [1] Pylchenko was a former member of the political council of the party UKROP. [1] In the 2015 Ukrainian local elections, Borys Filatov was elected mayor of Dnipro as a UKROP representative. [5]
The six mayors presented Proposition to the public on 19 June 2020, and a party congress was planned for July 2020. [2] Other mayors, "leaders of public opinion", and other local government officials were invited to join the meeting. [4] The founding mayors claimed they did not need a new political party to achieve re-election and that their own new local parties was sufficient. [2] However, Proposition was created because the six Mayors were unsatisfied with the level of cooperation with the Presidential Office, president Volodymyr Zelensky, and prime minister Denys Shmyhal. [2] The first task of the new party was to win the October 2020 Ukrainian local elections. [4] The founders stated that the party also intends to take part in the 2023 Ukrainian parliamentary election. [4] According to the results published by the Central Election Commission of Ukraine in the 2020 local elections, 1.66% of local deputies elected were members of the Proposition party. [6] In Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, the party was one of the winners of the election. [7]