Revival ( uk, «Відродження», the name can also be translated as ''Renaissance'') is a political party in Ukraine, established in its current form in June 2015. Its predecessor had been founded by

Heorhiy Kirpa Heorhiy Mykolayovych Kirpa ( uk, Георгій Миколайович Кірпа) (20 July 1946 in Klubivka, Khmelnytskyi Oblast – 27 December 2004 in Bortnychi, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian railway manager, statesman and politician, best known ...

in 2004. On 5 June 2015, Revival, not represented in parliament until then, gained 22 of 450 seats in Parliament through a merger with a parliamentary faction of the same name, which was known as Economic Development between February 2014 and March 2015. 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 of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dissolv ...

the party joined a united party list with the political parties of Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development, Nashi and Trust The Deeds.Parties of Opposition Bloc, Peace and Development, Vidrodzhennia, Ours and Trust Deeds declare unification to participate in Rada snap elections

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 ...

(7 June 2019) But this combined force did not win any parliamentary seats.

History

Revival

The party was registered at the Ministry of Justice on 15 June 2004 and its chairman was then Minister of Transportation and Communication and director of Ukrzaliznytsia

.Party profile
RBC Ukraine
Party profile
at the Center of Political Information The party supported Viktor Yanukovych during the

2004 Ukrainian presidential election Presidential elections were held in Ukraine on 31 October, 21 November and 26 December 2004. The election was the fourth presidential election to take place in Ukraine following independence from the Soviet Union. The last stages of the election ...

. Kirpa was found dead on 27 December 2004.POLICE CONFIRM GEORGI KIRPA'S DEATH AS SUICIDE
Ukrinform (6 January 2005) Early next month the police concluded he had killed himself. During the

2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

s the party scored 0.96%, finishing 12th out of 45 participants, and did not gain any parliamentary seats. The party did not participate in the

2007 Ukrainian parliamentary election Early parliamentary elections in Ukraine took place on 30 September 2007. The date of the election was determined following agreement between the President Viktor Yushchenko, the Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and the Chairman of the Verkhovna ...

s and the

2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election The Ukrainian parliamentary election of 2012 took place on 28 October 2012.2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election Snap elections to the Verkhovna Rada took place on 26 October 2014. Petro Poroshenko, the President of Ukraine, had pressed for early parliamentary elections since his victory in the presidential election in May.Ukrainian parliament Economic Development was created on 27 February 2014 by MP Anatoliy Kinakh who had recently left the Party of Regions faction.Rada creates Group for Economic Development
, Radio Ukraine (25 February 2014) The co-leader of the group was elected Vitaliy Khomutynnik. Initially accounted for 33 deputies, the group included 41 MPs by the end of the seventh parliamentary convocation. Most of them had shortly before been a member of the Party of Regions faction, and many retained their membership within the Party. Kinakh claimed to have created the faction to restart the negotiations with the European Union on the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement and its Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement. On its second day the faction with 250 other MPs sign up to join the coalition supporting the Yatsenyuk Government with the Batkivshchyna, UDAR, Svoboda factions and the

Sovereign European Ukraine People's Will ( uk, Воля народу), formerly known as Sovereign European Ukraine ( uk, Соборна європейська Україна), was a centrist, pro-Europe Ukrainian parliamentary faction in its national parliament Verkhovna R ...

faction and other MPs.

Revived after 2014 parliamentary election

The parliamentary group was revived after the 2014 parliamentary elections in Ukraine.In Parliament created a faction
Ukrayinska Pravda (27 November 2014) The new leader of the parliamentary group is Vitaliy Khomutynnik. Anatoliy Kinakh had failed to win a seat in the 2014 parliamentary election. In its reincarnation the group has 19 deputies.

Merger

The Economic Development group was dissolved on 5 March 2015 and re-founded as Revival. On 5 June 2015, Revival's Party Congress decided to make the faction "Revival" in Ukraine's national parliament Verkhovna Rada the parliamentary wing of the party, effectively merging the two. Revival MP Viktor Bondar was elected party chairman.Deputy group "Renaissance" is party of the same name and to form a united opposition force
RBC Ukraine (5 June 2015) The faction Revival has 22 of the parliaments 450 seats.Депутатські фракції і групи VII скликання ''Deputy fractions and Groups VII convocation''
Verkhovna Rada By the summer of 2015 most representatives of the party in 2014 were members of the Party of Regions.

Post-merger history

The party performed badly in the

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 2014 Ukrainian local elections, snap local elections, which were only held throughout parts of the country. A second roun ...

, but generally won elections in Kharkiv Oblast. In Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city,Kharkiv ‘never had eastern-western conflicts’

Euronews Euronews (styled on-air in lowercase as euronews) is a European television news network, headquartered in Lyon, France. The network began broadcasting on 1 January 1993 and covers world news from a European perspective. The majority of Eurone ...

(23 October 2014) Incumbent Mayor Hennadiy Kernes was Revival's mayoral candidate in the Kharkiv mayoral election."Revival" will send the mayor of Kharkiv Kernes, and the seat of mayor of Odessa will fight Fabricant
UNIAN (23 September 2015) Former Prime Minister of Ukraine

Yuriy Yekhanurov Yuriy Ivanovych Yekhanurov ( uk, Юрій Іванович Єхануров, ; born August 23, 1948) is a Ukrainian politician who was Prime Minister of Ukraine from 2005 to 2006 and Minister of Defense from 2007 to 2009. Background and profes ...

was the party's candidate for Mayor of Kyiv. In the 2015 Kharkiv mayoral election Kernes was re-elected with 65.8% of the votes. In the Kyiv 2015 local elections Yekhanurov did not survive the first round of Mayoral elections. In the same election was elected Mayor of Uzhhorod. In total the party won 1,733 seats of the available 158,399 in the local elections. In the

the party joined a united party list with the political parties of Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development, Nashi and

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called

Opposition Bloc russian: Оппозиционный блок , colorcode = , logo = Opposition Bloc.png , logo_size = 240px , leader1_title = Chairman , leader1_name = Rinat Akhmetov (one wing)Dmytro Firtash & Yuriy Boyko ( ...

. In this election this list won 6 single-seat constituencies and its nationwide list won 3.23% of the votes meaning it did not overcome the 5% election barrier.CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections
Ukrinform (26 July 2019)
Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019
Ukrayinska Pravda (21 July 2019) In the 2020 Ukrainian local elections the party gained 3 deputies.

References

External links

Official website
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