For United Ukraine! () was a political alliance and an electoral bloc in

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founded in December 2001 to participate in the

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held on 31 March 2002.

History

In the parliamentary election, the party was supportive of authoritarian, incumbent

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, and opposed to the pro-democratic

Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc The Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (, Russian language, Russian: Блок Наша Украина – Народная Самооборона, ''Blok Nasha Ukraina – Narodnaya Samooborona,'' NUNS; until 2007 named Our Ukraine Bloc) w ...

. It was described by

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as a "

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", including oligarchs, bureaucrats, and pro-Kuchma politicians, as an attempt to further increase Kuchma's power through constitutional and extra-constitutional means. At the election, the alliance won 11.77%Політична партія „Трудова Україна“
Database DATA of the popular vote and a total of 102 out of 450 seats, placing it in third behind Our Ukraine and the

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. Final poll results had predicted 7-8% of the total votes. The alliance received many of its votes from

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. The alliance consisted of the 5 following members:Communist and Post-Communist Parties in Europe

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, 2008, (page 391) *

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(), led by

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. * Agrarian Party of Ukraine (), led by Governor of

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Mykhailo Hladiy. *

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(, PPPU), led by

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. * People's Democratic Party (), led by former

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. *

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Serhiy Tyhypko. Top-10 party list:

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(non-partisan),

(

), Kateryna Vashchuk (Agrarian Party of Ukraine),

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(

), Viktor Skopenko (

(People's Democratic Party),

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(

Labour Ukraine Labour Ukraine ()
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(

), Mykhailo Hladiy (Agrarian Party of Ukraine),

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(non-partisan).

Since the election

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by

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History

Since the election

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