Smart Politics ( uk, Розумна Політика, Rozumna Polityka, RP) is an inter-factional parliamentary group in the

Verkhovna Rada The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine ( uk, Верхо́вна Ра́да Украї́ни, translit=, Verkhovna Rada Ukrainy, translation=Supreme Council of Ukraine, Ukrainian abbreviation ''ВРУ''), often simply Verkhovna Rada or just Rada, is the ...

(the national parliament of

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

), created by former

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Dmytro Razumkov Dmytro Oleksandrovych Razumkov ( ua, Дмитро Олександрович Разумков; born 8 October 1983) is a Ukrainian politician and former Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (from August 2019 to 7 October 2021). Previously he was leader ...

on 8 November 2021. The group currently includes 25 deputies, 19 from Servant of the People, two from Batkivshchyna and four independents.

History

is a former leader of

Ukrainian President The president of Ukraine ( uk, Президент України, Prezydent Ukrainy) is the head of state of Ukraine. The president represents the nation in international relations, administers the foreign political activity of the state, condu ...

Volodymyr Zelensky Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy, ; russian: Владимир Александрович Зеленский, Vladimir Aleksandrovich Zelenskyy, (born 25 January 1978; also transliterated as Zelensky or Zelenskiy) is a Ukrainian politicia ...

's Servant of the People party. 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 ...

, Razumkov headed the party list of Servant of the People. In the

election An election is a formal group decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual or multiple individuals to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy has opera ...

the party won 124 seats on the nationwide party list and 130 constituency seats.CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections

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(26 July 2019)
Results of the extraordinary elections of the People's Deputies of Ukraine 2019

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(21 July 2019) On 29 August 2019, Razumkov was elected Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada (Ukraine's national parliament).Razumkov elected as Chairman of Verkhovna Rada

(29 August 2019) On 7 October 2021, the Verkhovna Rada voted to dismiss Razumkov from his post as Chairman of the Parliament. Four days earlier President Zelensky had stated that he was "not a member of our team anymore." On 8 November 2021, Razumkov founded the inter-factional parliamentary group ''Smart Politics''. The group included 25 deputies, 19 from Servant of the People, two from Batkivshchyna and four independents. On 16 November 2021, Razumkov confirmed that he would create a

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. In January 2022, Razumkov founded an NGO called Team Razumkov that would form the backbone of the new party. Also in January 2022, Mukachevo mayor

Andriy Baloha Viktor Ivanovych Baloha ( uk, Віктор Іванович Балога, born 15 June 1963, Zavydovo) is a Ukrainian politician and the former emergency situations minister. Early life and education Viktor Baloha was born on 15 June 1963 ...

joined this project.

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