Dovira (, , ), translated as Trust,
is a parliamentary group in the
Verkhovna Rada
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and political party in
Ukraine
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, consisting of 20 previously
non-partisan representatives.
It was formed in the
9th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada
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on 6 December 2019.
On 12 June 2020, a political party of the same name was registered on the basis of the parliamentary group.
History
Dovira was registered as a parliamentary group of pro-government deputies on 6 December 2019. The deputies who entered Dovira were former members of the
Petro Poroshenko Bloc, the
People's Front, representatives of the
Our Land party, ex-
regionals and a deputy from
Self Reliance.
Although originally created to function solely as a
parliamentary group
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at the national level rather than a political party, in the
2020 Ukrainian local elections, candidates representing the organization contested regional council seats and municipal positions across the country.
Twenty three of the group's mayoral candidates were elected, garnering about 3.14 percent of the total mayoral vote in Ukraine. Trust saw some success in
Ternopil Oblast
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, where it gained six seats on the
Ternopil Oblast Council. The organization saw its best result in
Poltava Oblast
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, winning a plurality of sixteen seats on the
Poltava Oblast Council. Nationally, Dovira candidates secured 459 seats on regional and municipal councils across Ukraine, out of a total of 43,122 up for election. The party obtained 1.08% of the total votes cast in the 2020 local election, putting it in thirteenth place overall. According to Ukrainian
NGO Chesno and Ukrainian investigation platform four Dovira faction members (
Vasyl Petiovka,
Valerii Lunchenko,
Robert Horvat and
Vladislav Poliak) developed the local
Zakarpattia Oblast
Zakarpattia Oblast (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Закарпатська область), also referred to as simply Zakarpattia (Ukrainian language, Ukrainian: Закарпаття; Hungarian language, Hungarian: ''Kárpátalja'') or Transcar ...
party
Native Zakarpattia. This part won 12 of the 64 seats in the
Zakarpattia Oblast Council.
Members in parliament
Leaders
*
Oleh Kulinich – chairman (former
Revival member)
*
Valerii Lunchenko – deputy chairman (former
People's Front member)
Other members
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Volodymyr Areshonkov (former
European Solidarity member)
*
Mykola Babenko (
Bila Tserkva Together)
*
Pavlo Bakunets (
Self Reliance)
*
Serhiy Velmozhnyi (
Our Land)
*
Robert Horvat (former
European Solidarity member)
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Maxim Efimov (former
European Solidarity member)
*
Andriy Ivanchuk (former
People's Front member)
*
Andriy Kit (independent)
*
Oleksandr Kovalov (independent)
*
Mykola Liushniak (former
European Solidarity member)
*
Vasyl Petiovka (
Andriy Baloha's Team)
*
Borys Prykhodko (independent)
*
Oleksandr Sukhov (
Our Land)
*
Serhii Shakhov (
Our Land)
Former members
*
Valeriy Davydenko (
Our Land) was a member of the group until his death on May 23, 2020.
References
2019 establishments in Ukraine
Parliamentary factions in Ukraine
Parliamentary groups in Ukraine
Political parties established in 2020
Political parties in Ukraine
Regionalist parties in Ukraine
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