Aktsent (, formally Viche (; English translation: ''Union'' or ''Council'')), is a

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registered in May 1993..ua/en/catalog/company_details/00044345/ AKTSENT
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www.sd.net.ua Before September 2005 the party was known as Constitutional Democratic Party (; ''Konstytutsijno-Demokratychna Partija'').Bohoslovska Inna

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(July 23, 2008); Between 2005 and 2018 the party was called Viche.

History

The party was founded by

Inna Bohoslovska Inna Hermanivna Bohoslovska (, , alternative spellings: ''Bogoslovska'', ''Bogoslovskaya'') is a former Ukrainian politician and member of the Ukrainian parliament from 2007 to 2014. Bohoslovska was a candidate for President of Ukraine in the 201 ...

in 1993. At the

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the party was part of the election bloc "Elephant – Social-Liberal Union" () that won 0,90% of the votes and no seats. At the

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on 30 March 2002, the Constitutional Democratic Party was part of the Team of Winter Generation alliance, which didn't pass the 4%

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and obtained no seats. At the

on 26 March 2006, it won 1.74% of the popular vote and no seats. On August 3, 2007, Bohoslovska and other leaders of the party decided to participate in the 2007 parliamentary elections within party list of the

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. Ihor Didkovsky was elected as a new party leader. The party considered a merge into

Party of Regions A party is a gathering of people who have been invited by a host for the purposes of socializing, conversation, recreation, or as part of a festival or other commemoration or celebration of a special occasion. A party will often feature ...

in 2007 and did not participate in the 2007 election; however on June 12, 2009 in

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an extraordinary eleventh party congress took place. After Bohoslovska quit the Party of Regions to take part in the presidential election of the next year in May 2009. she became leader of Viche again. The party did participate in the 2012 parliamentary elections in 14 simple-majority

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but did not win parliamentary representation. The party did not participate in the

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. In 2018 the party changed to its current name Aktsent. In the

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8 persons won a local seat on behalf of Aktsent. In the October 2020 Ukrainian local election for the

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former

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Ihor Baluta was a candidate for the party. He, nor his party, were elected to this regional parliament.Results of the 2020 elections of the Kharkiv Oblast Council

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Ideology

Party members see themselves as the heirs of the party, which operated in the early 20th century, and use the theory of modern liberal conservatism (Anglo-Saxon conservatism). In particular, party officials declare, that they represent the interests of the middle class – of businessmen and of intellectuals.

References

External links

Official Party Website
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