Proposition (, ) is a
Ukrainia
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n political party founded in 2020 by the mayors of six major cities:
Borys Filatov
Borys Albertovych Filatov (; born 7 March 1972) is a Ukrainian politician, journalist, lawyer, businessman, and the current mayor of Dnipro. In 2014 and 2015 he was a member of the Verkhovna Rada, the Ukrainian parliament. He is one of the l ...
of
Dnipro
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,
Andriy Raykovych
Andriy Pavlovych Raykovych (; born on 7 April 1956) is a Ukrainian politician who has been governor of Kirovohrad Oblast since 7 March 2022. He had served as the mayor of Kropyvnytskyi from 2015 to 2022.
Biography
Andriy Raykovych was born on 7 ...
of
Kropyvnytskyi
Kropyvnytskyi (, ) is a city in central Ukraine, situated on the Inhul, Inhul River. It serves as the administrative center of Kirovohrad Oblast. Population:
Over its history, Kropyvnytskyi has changed its name several times. The settlement ...
,
Oleksiy Kaspruk of
Chernivtsi
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,
Oleksandr Senkevych of
Mykolaiv
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,
Andriy Dyachenko of
Kakhovka
Kakhovka (, ) is a port city on the Dnieper River in Kakhovka Raion, Kherson Oblast, of southern Ukraine. It hosts the administration of the Kakhovka urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. It had a population of Kakhovka has been under ...
, and
Serhii Sukhomlyn
Serhii Ivanovych Sukhomlyn (Ukrainian: Сергій Іванович Сухомлин; born on 21 June 1971), is a Ukrainian politician who is currently the Mayor of Zhytmomyr since 2015.
He is a member of the Main Council of the Proposition part ...
of
Zhytomyr
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The party has been nicknamed the "Party of Mayors".
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History
The Proposition party is the successor to the New European Ukraine political party, which was registered in December 2014.[ The New European Ukraine party did not take part in the ]2015 Ukrainian local elections
On 25 October 2015 local elections took place in Ukraine. The elections were conducted a little over a year since the 2014 snap local elections, which were only held throughout parts of the country. A second round of voting for the election of ...
, nor in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, the elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolved parli ...
s.[ The party's name was changed to Proposition in April 2020 when Andry Pylchenko from Dnipro became its new leader.][ Pylchenko was a former member of the political council of the party ]UKROP
UKROP ( in Russian), short for the Ukrainian Association of Patriots (), was a political party in Ukraine. .[ In the 2015 Ukrainian local elections, Borys Filatov was elected mayor of Dnipro as a UKROP representative.
The six mayors presented Proposition to the public on 19 June 2020, and a party congress was planned for July 2020.][ Other mayors, "leaders of public opinion", and other local government officials were invited to join the meeting.][ However, Proposition was created because the six Mayors were unsatisfied with the level of cooperation with the Presidential Office, president ]Volodymyr Zelensky
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has served as the sixth and current president of Ukraine since 2019. He took office five years after the start of the Russo-Ukraini ...
, and prime minister Denys Shmyhal
Denys Anatoliiovych Shmyhal (, ; born 15 October 1975) is a Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur who has served as the 18th and current prime minister of Ukraine since 2020. Before his appointment as prime minister, Shmyhal was the governor ...
.[ The first task of the new party was to win the October .]Central Election Commission of Ukraine
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in the 2020 local elections, 1.66% of local deputies elected were members of the Proposition party. In Dnipropetrovsk Oblast
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast (), is an administrative divisions of Ukraine, oblast (province) in simultaneously southern, eastern and central Ukraine, the most important industrial region of the country. It was created on February 27, 1932. Dnipropetro ...
, the party was one of the winners of the election."Servant of the People" took leading positions in 16 regions of Ukraine - analysis of "Rating"
Interfax-Ukraine
Interfax-Ukraine () is a Ukrainian news agency. Founded in 1992, the company publishes in Ukrainian, Russian, English and German.
The company owns a 50-seat press centre.
The staff of the agency is 105 people (as of the end of February 2022)
...
(23 November 2020).
References
2020 establishments in Ukraine
Political parties established in 2020
Regionalist parties in Ukraine
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