Revival (Ukraine)

Revival (, 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 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 the party joined a united party list with the political parties of Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development, Nashi and Trust Deeds.Parties of Opposition Bloc, Peace and Development, Vidrodzhennia, Ours and Trust Deeds declare unification to participate in Rada snap elections
Interfax-Ukraine (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 Heorhiy Kirpa.Party profile
RBC Ukraine
Party profile
at the Center of Political Information The party supported Viktor Yanukovych during the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election. Kirpa was found dead on 27 December 2004.POLICE CONFIRM GEORGI KIRPA'S DEATH AS SUICIDE
Ukrinforms 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 elections and the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary elections it combated in 8 constituencies without winning a seat.

During the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary elections the party scored 0.19% and again no seats.

Economic development

Original creation

The faction in the 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 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
Ukrainska 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, but generally won elections in Kharkiv Oblast. In Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city,Kharkiv ‘never had eastern-western conflicts’
Euronews (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 Odesa will fight Fabricant
UNIAN (23 September 2015) Former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yuriy Yekhanurov 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.

On January 30, 2019, the party nominated Viktor Bondar for the 2019 presidential election. However, in the elections, Viktor Bondar received 0.12% of the vote, finishing 16th.

On June 2, 2019, the Revival party ( Hennadiy Kernes and Vitaliy Khomutynnik) and Trust Deeds ( Gennadiy Trukhanov) held a unification congress for general participation in the parliamentary elections. As a result of the congress, on June 7, the Revival party was left by its co-chairman Viktor Bondar ''"due to the transformation of the Revival project into a project for the revival of the Party of Regions."'' In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party joined a united party list with the political parties of Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development, Nashi and Trust Deeds called Opposition Bloc. 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

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