Civil Position or Civic Position ( uk, Громадянська позиція) is a

political party A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections. It is common for the members of a party to hold similar ideas about politics, and parties may promote specific political ideology ...

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian invas ...

registered in March 2005. It is led by former

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Anatoliy Hrytsenko Anatoliy Stepanovych Hrytsenko ( uk, Анатолій Степанович Гриценко; born 25 October 1957) is a Ukrainian politician, independent member of the current Ukrainian parliament, former Minister of Defence, member of the Our ...

History

Mighty Ukraine

The party was registered in March 2005 under the name ''Mighty Ukraine'' ( uk, Могутня Україна) and it was known as this until 2010.Політична партія „Могутня Україна“
Database ASD At this time the party did not participate in any

parliamentary elections A general election is a political voting election where generally all or most members of a given political body are chosen. These are usually held for a nation, state, or territory's primary legislative body, and are different from by-elections ...

.Політична партія „Громадянська позиція“
Database DA-TA The original party leader was Oleksandr Chubatenko. Chubatenko ran the election headquarters of

during the

2010 Ukrainian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 17 January 2010. As no candidate received a majority of the vote, a run-off election was held between Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko and opposition leader Viktor Yanukovych on 7 February. On 14 ...

Civil Position

In February 2010, the party was renamed ''Civil Position'', and at the same time Hrytsenko became party leader. The decision to rename the party and change its chairman was approved by a party Congress on 21 January 2010.Hritsenko will go on at the head of the party renamed?

Ukrayinska Pravda ''Ukrainska Pravda'' ( uk, Українська правда, lit=Ukrainian Truth) is a Ukrainian online newspaper founded by Georgiy Gongadze on 16 April 2000 (the day of the Ukrainian constitutional referendum). Published mainly in Ukra ...

(February 12, 2010) At the 2010 local elections, the party's results were infinitesimal.Results of the elections, preliminary data, on interactive maps
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(November 8, 2010) Civil Position gained one seat on the

Ternopil Ternópil ( uk, Тернопіль, Ternopil' ; pl, Tarnopol; yi, טאַרנאָפּל, Tarnopl, or ; he, טארנופול (טַרְנוֹפּוֹל), Tarnopol; german: Tarnopol) is a city in the west of Ukraine. Administratively, Ternopi ...

city council. In August 2011, the party announced it would merge with the

European Party of Ukraine The European Party of Ukraine ( uk, Європейська партія України) is a Ukrainian political party registered by the Ministry of Justice on August 3, 2006. Its ideology is social-liberalism, when the state should maintain ha ...

. Later, in December 2011 the

Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform The Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform ( uk, Український демократичний альянс за реформи Віталія Кличка; the acronym UDAR ( uk, УДАР) translates to "strike" or "punch", en, Ukrainian ...

and Civil Position announced they were negotiating a merger. However, in June 2012, the party announced it would compete on a single party list with other opposition parties during the 2012 parliamentary election.Civil Position party joins Ukraine's united opposition
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'' (20 June 2012) In a December 2011 poll by

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, the party scored 2.3% and and 2.4% in May 2012. The party competed on an "umbrella" party list with

Fatherland A homeland is a place where a cultural, national, or racial identity has formed. The definition can also mean simply one's country of birth. When used as a proper noun, the Homeland, as well as its equivalents in other languages, often has ethni ...

, along with several other opposition parties, for the 2012 parliamentary election. This list won 101 seats with 25.55% of the party vote. The breakdown was 62 seats from the party list and 39 seats from

single-member constituencies A single-member district is an electoral district represented by a single officeholder. It contrasts with a multi-member district, which is represented by multiple officeholders. Single-member districts are also sometimes called single-winner vot ...

. The party itself had competed in 1 constituency where it lost. Hrytsenko was placed 3rd on the joint list and was elected.Список депутатів нової Верховної Ради

(11 November 2012)Hrytsenko refused to sign statement of opposition
,

UNIAN The UNIAN or Ukrainian Independent Information Agency of News ( uk, Українське Незалежне Інформаційне Агентство Новин, УНІАН, translit=Ukrayins'ke Nezalezhne Informatsiyne Ahentstvo Novyn) is a ...

(13.11.2012) When several of the other parties that had competed under the joint list merged into Fatherland in June 2013Sobolev: Front for Change and Reform and Order Party to join Batkivschyna

Interfax-Ukraine The Interfax-Ukraine ( uk, Інтерфакс-Україна) is a Kyiv-based Ukraine, Ukrainian independent news agency founded in 1992. The company does not belong to the Russian news corporation Interfax Information Services. The company pub ...

(11 June 2013)
Front for Change, Reforms and Order to dissolve for merger with Batkivshchyna - Sobolev

Ukrinform The National News Agency of Ukraine ( uk, Українське національне інформаційне агентство), or Ukrinform ( uk, Укрінформ), is a state information and news agency, and international broadcaster of U ...

(11 June 2013) the party did not join them and kept its independence. Hrytsenko left the Fatherland faction on 14 January 2014. On 17 January 2014 he submitted a letter of resignation to parliament.Hrytsenko resigns from parliament

(17 January 2014) Hrytsenko was a candidate for the party at the 2014 presidential election where he placed 4th in the first and only round. Previously Hrytsenko was an independent candidate at the 2010 presidential election. On 7 September 2014, party congress decided that the party would participate in the 2014 parliamentary election on a joint list with members of the Democratic Alliance. For elections in single member constituencies, both parties participated separately. In the election the party failed to clear the 5%

election threshold The electoral threshold, or election threshold, is the minimum share of the primary vote that a candidate or political party requires to achieve before they become entitled to representation or additional seats in a legislature. This limit can ...

(it got 3.1% of the votes) and also did not win a constituency seat and thus no parliamentary seats.Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament
,

Ukrainian Television and Radio UTR ( uk, Українське телебачення і радіомовлення; Ukrayins'ke telebachennya i radiomovlennya) is the Ukrainian state owned TV channel targeting a foreign Ukrainian-speaking audience. Programming is provided with ...

(8 November 2014)
People's Front 0.33% ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with all ballots counted in Ukraine elections - CEC
,

(8 November 2014)
Poroshenko Bloc to get 132 seats in parliament - CEC

(8 November 2014) Concerning the ongoing

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, the party advocates an end to the conflict by use of force. The party was accepted into the

Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe The Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE; french: Alliance des Démocrates et des Libéraux pour l'Europe, ADLE) is a transnational alliance between two European political parties, the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Euro ...

(ALDE) on 4 June 2016. The party nominated party leader Hrytsenko as a candidate in the

2019 Ukrainian presidential election The 2019 Ukrainian presidential election was held on 31 March and 21 April in a two-round system. There were 39 candidates for the election on the ballot. The 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia and the occupation of parts of Donetsk Oblas ...

on 11 January 2019. He placed fifth with 6.91% of the votes in the first round and thus did not proceed to the second round of the election. In the

2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election Snap elections to the Ukrainian parliament were held on 21 July 2019. Originally scheduled to be held at the end of October, these elections were brought forward after newly inaugurated President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolved parliament on 21 ...

, the party gained 1.04% of the national vote and no parliamentary seats, the party also failed to win a constituency seat.CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections

(26 July 2019)
Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019

(21 July 2019) In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections, the party gained 141 deputies (0.32% of all available mandates).

Election results

Verkhovna Rada

Presidential elections

References

External links

Official website
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