For United Ukraine

For United Ukraine

Infobox Ukrainian Political Party
party_name = For United Ukraine!
За Єдину Україну!
party_articletitle = For United Ukraine
party_
leader = Volodymyr Lytvyn [cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20041208203028/www.zaedu.org.ua/index.phtml?razd=leaders|title=Leaders of the "Za Yedynu Ukrayinu" bloc|accessdate=2008-02-25|date= 2002-11-24|work=Za Yediny Ukrayinu!|language=Ukrainian]
foundation = December 15, 2001
ideology = Pro-Presidential, Regionalism, Pan-Slavism, Russophilia, Parliamentarism
international = "none"
position = Centre
colours = Blue
headquarters = Kiev, Ukraine
website = [http://web.archive.org/web/20050210095119/http://www.zaedu.org.ua/ www.zaedu.org.ua]

For United Ukraine ( _uk. «За Єдину Україну!»; "Za Yedynu Ukrayinu!") was a political alliance and an electoral bloc in Ukraine founded in December 2001 to partake in the parliamentary election in held on March 30, 2002.

2002 parliamentary election

In the parliamentary election, the party was pro-presidential, supporting the incumbent President Leonid Kuchma. At the election, the alliance won 11.77% of the popular vote and a total of 102 out of 450 seats. The alliance received a lot of its electoral votes in Donetsk Oblast (province) of eastern Ukraine.

The alliance consisted of the 5 following members:
* Party of Regions ("Partiya Rehioniv"), [cite web|url=http://www.partyofregions.org.ua/eng/|title=Official informational server|accessdate=2008-02-24|work=Party of Regions] led by Volodymyr Semynozhenko.
* Agrarian Party of Ukraine ("Ahrarna Partiya Ukrayiny"), led by the Governor of Lviv Oblast Mykhailo Hladiy.
* Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine ("Partiya Promislovtsiv i Pidpryiemtsiv Ukrajiny"), [cite web|url=http://www.pppu.info/|title=Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine (PIEU)|accessdate=2008-02-24|work=Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine|language=Ukrainian] led by Anatoliy Kinakh.
* People's Democratic Party ("Narodno-Demokratychna Partiya"), [cite web |url=http://ndp.org.ua/|title=Official website of the People's Democratic Party|accessdate=2008-02-24|work=People's Democratic Party|language=Ukrainian] led by former Prime Minister Valeriy Pustovoitenko.
* Labour Ukraine ("Trudova Ukrayina"), [cite web|url=http://web.archive.org/web/20060612201532/http://trud.org.ua/|title=Informational portal TRUD.org.ua (now defunct)|accessdate=2008-02-24|date= 2006-06-12|work=Labour Ukraine|language=Ukrainian] led by Serhiy Tyhipko.

ince the election

The alliance is now defunct as Viktor Yanukovych's Party of Regions took part in the 2006 elections by itself and the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine went as part of the pro-presidential electoral bloc Our Ukraine.

Labour Ukraine later merged into the Party of Regions in mid-2007. At the early parliamentary elections parliamentary held on September 30, 2007, the Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine participated in the elections together with the Party of Regions. [cite news|title=Kinakh Wants to Join Yanukovych at Elections|url=http://www2.pravda.com.ua/en/news/2007/7/18/8356.htm|work=Ukrayinska Pravda|date=July 18, 2007|accessdate=2008-02-24] [cite news|title=PRU Election List Still Disputable|url=http://www2.pravda.com.ua/en/news/2007/7/31/8466.htm|work=Ukrayinska Pravda|date=July 31, 2007|accessdate=2008-02-24]

The People's Party (formerly "Agrarian Party of Ukraine") was part of the electoral Lytvyn's People's Bloc, which won 2.44% of the popular vote and no seats at the 2006 parliamentary elections. During the parliamentary elections 2007 it was part of the Lytvyn's Bloc that won 20 out of 450 seats. [cite web|url=http://www.cvk.gov.ua/vnd2007/w6p001e.html|title=Parties (blocs of parties), who get three (3%) and more percents of votes of voters|accessdate=2007-10-02|work=Central Election Commission of Ukraine]

In the 2007 elections, the People's Democratic Party went as part of the Ukrainian Regional Asset and again failed to win parliamentary representation.

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