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Golos Party
Holos (, , ) is a Liberalism, liberal and Pro-Europeanism, pro-European political party in Ukraine, led by Kira Rudik. The group was founded by Ukrainian musician Svyatoslav Vakarchuk in May 2019. The party won 20 seats in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2019 parliamentary election, becoming part of the opposition in the 9th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, 9th Ukrainian parliament. An observer-member of Liberal International, Holos is the first party with liberal ideology to enter the Ukrainian Parliament and form a faction. After the local elections in 2020, the party gained 350 seats in the local councils. Name The name of the party has two meanings in the Ukrainian language: ''voice'' and ''vote''. The founder of the party, Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, said that the name of the party was chosen because this word characterizes Ukrainian voters and their desire for change in the country: ' History Establishment and entry to parliament The party was presented to the public on 16 M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holos Pictogram 2020
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Obozrevatel
''Obozrevatel'' (OBOZ.UA; ) is a Ukrainian Internet publication of socio-political orientation, created in 2001. It belongs to Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur Mykhailo Brodskyy. In the publication, he holds the position of the chairman of the editorial board "Obozrevatel". History In 2007, the Media Holding became the owner of the Internet portal "Ukrainian Portal", on the basis of which the resource itself was earned. In the same year, "Obozrevatel" became the owner of the well-known Ukrainian resource "Mobilniks.ua". From June 1, 2010, OBOZ.ua holding, which belongs to "Obozrevatel", united all available resources into one main site, which placed all the areas that previously worked separately in a holistic project with categories. In the future, the resource also launched the MyObozrevatel information network, which freely hosts the material of independent journalists, after confirmation by the project administration. In 2011, OBOZ.ua has acquired a service for the cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electoral List
An electoral list is a grouping of candidates for election, usually found in proportional or mixed electoral systems, but also in some plurality electoral systems. An electoral list can be registered by a political party (a party list) or can constitute a group of independent candidates. Lists can be open, in which case electors have some influence over the ranking of the winning candidates, or closed, in which case the order of candidates is fixed at the registration of the list. Electoral lists are required for party-list proportional representation systems. An electoral list is made according to the applying nomination rules and election rules. Depending on the type of election, a political party, a general assembly, or a board meeting, may elect or appoint a nominating committee that will add, and if required, prioritize list-candidates according to their preferences. Qualification, popularity, gender, age, geography, and occupation are preferences that may influence t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Single-member Constituencies
A single-member district or constituency is an electoral district represented by a single officeholder. It contrasts with a Multiwinner voting, multi-member district, which is represented by multiple officeholders. In some countries, such as Australia and India, members of the lower house of parliament are elected from single-member districts, while members of the upper house are elected from multi-member districts. In some other countries, such as Singapore, members of parliament can be elected from either single-member or multi-member districts. History in the United States The United States Constitution, ratified in 1789, states: "The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States...Representatives...shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers." In other words, the Constitution specifies that each state will be apportioned a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Galician Party
The Ukrainian Galician Party () or UGP () is a Christian democratic political party active in the western Ukrainian region of Galicia, which consists of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, and Ternopil oblasts. It was registered in the aftermath of the Revolution of Dignity in 2014 to pursue the implementation of Euromaidan's original goals, and became politically active in 2015. Ideology Since 2018, the Ukrainian Galician Party has used the slogan "God - Man - Ukraine" to represent the main tenets of their ideology: Christian democracy, Ukrainian nationalism, and pro-Europeanism. The party supports Ukrainian nationalism, or what it calls "Ukrainocentralism." In practice, it advocates for policies that privilege ethnic Ukrainian culture and the Ukrainian language. Some of these policies include protecting Ukrainian as the sole state language, enforcing the mandatory use of only Ukrainian in all government communications and workplaces, and what the party refers to as "Ukrainianizing Ukraine. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oleh Makarov (politician)
Oleh Anatoliiovych Makarov (; 24 July 1965 – 29 October 2024) was a Ukrainian lawyer and politician. People's deputy of Ukraine of the 9th convocation. Life and career Oleh Makarov was born in Kyiv on 24 July 1965. In 1989 he graduated from Kyiv National University, Faculty of International Relations and International Law, International Law Department. He completed postgraduate studies at the same university. In 1992 Makarov became a managing partner of the law firm Vasil Kisil & Partners. In 1995 he received the right to practice law. In 2007 Makarov became the deputy chairman of the Disciplinary Chamber of the Kyiv City Bar Qualification and Disciplinary Commission and became a member of the board of the public organization "Association of Lawyers of Ukraine". In 2015 he became member of the Ethics Commission of this organization. In 2013 Makarov obtained an MBA degree from Heriot-Watt University. In the 2015 Kyiv local elections Makarov became a deputy of the Kyiv City Cou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opinion Polling For The 2019 Ukrainian Parliamentary Election
In the run up to the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary elections, various carried out opinion polling to gauge voter intention in Ukraine. The results of the polls are displayed in this article. The date range for these opinion polls is from the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, previous parliamentary election, to the day of the election. The general election was held on 21 July 2019.CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections Ukrinform (26 July 2019) Results of the extraordinary ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''NYT'') is an American daily newspaper based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' covers domestic, national, and international news, and publishes opinion pieces, investigative reports, and reviews. As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the ''Times'' serves as one of the country's Newspaper of record, newspapers of record. , ''The New York Times'' had 9.13 million total and 8.83 million online subscribers, both by significant margins the List of newspapers in the United States, highest numbers for any newspaper in the United States; the total also included 296,330 print subscribers, making the ''Times'' the second-largest newspaper by print circulation in the United States, following ''The Wall Street Journal'', also based in New York City. ''The New York Times'' is published by the New York Times Company; since 1896, the company has been chaired by the Ochs-Sulzberger family, whose current chairman and the paper's publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2007 Ukrainian Parliamentary Election
Early parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 30 September 2007. The election date was determined following agreement between the President Viktor Yushchenko, the Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) Oleksandr Moroz on 27 May 2007, in an attempt to resolve the political crisis in Ukraine triggered by the 2 April 2007 presidential decree on dissolution of Ukraine's parliament. The 450 seats were divided among all parties that achieved a minimum 3% nationwide vote tally.Against All Odds: Aiding Political Parties in Georgia and Ukraine (UvA Proefschriften) by |
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 mayors in cities with more than 90,000 residents where no candidate gained more than 50% of the votes were held on 15 November 2015. Because of the ongoing conflict in East Ukraine and the February 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia, local elections were not conducted throughout all of the administrative subdivisions of Ukraine. The highest number of seats were won by the Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity", Fatherland and Our Land parties, followed by the Opposition Bloc and the Radical Party. The Petro Poroshenko Bloc did well in the western regions, central Ukraine, and the Kherson Oblast of the south. The Opposition Bloc gained most of the votes of the south and east (except Kharkiv Oblast). In the west, Svoboda improved its pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ukrainian Language
Ukrainian (, ) is an East Slavic languages, East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Ukraine. It is the first language, first (native) language of a large majority of Ukrainians. Written Ukrainian uses the Ukrainian alphabet, a variant of the Cyrillic script. The standard language is studied by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and Potebnia Institute of Linguistics. Comparisons are often made between Ukrainian and Russian language, Russian, another East Slavic language, yet there is more mutual intelligibility with Belarusian language, Belarusian,Alexander M. Schenker. 1993. "Proto-Slavonic", ''The Slavonic Languages''. (Routledge). pp. 60–121. p. 60: "[The] distinction between dialect and language being blurred, there can be no unanimity on this issue in all instances..."C.F. Voegelin and F.M. Voegelin. 1977. ''Classification and Index of the World's Languages'' (Elsevier). p. 311, "In terms of immediate mutual intelligibility, the East Slavic zone is a sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
9th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada
The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the 9th convocation (, ) is the current convocation of the legislative branch of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's Unicameralism, unicameral parliament. The 9th convocation meets at the Verkhovna Rada building in Kyiv, having begun its term on 29 August 2019, following the last session of the 8th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada, 8th Verkhovna Rada. The 9th Verkhovna Rada's composition is based upon the results of the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, 21 July 2019 parliamentary election, which took place three months after the second round of the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election. Ukraine's head of state during the parliament's term is President of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky. Eleven parties were represented in the Verkhovna Rada, although only five of them surpassed the mandatory five percent election threshold to gain representation based on the proportional representation system. About 80 percent of the members of parliament of this convo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
