Strong Ukraine (); formerly the Labour Party Ukraine,
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that was re-established in April 2014.Elections: Tihipko revived "Strong Ukraine"
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(23 April 2014)
Tihipko going to revive "Strong Ukraine"

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(23 April 2014) It was originally registered in August 1999 and dissolved in March 2012 after it had merged with the

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on 17 March 2012. Since late 2009 the party was and is the main vehicle of billionaire

Serhiy Tihipko Serhiy Leonidovych Tihipko (; born 13 February 1960) is a Ukrainian businessman and politician who was Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine. After founding the TAS Group conglomerate in 1998, Tihipko was Minister of Economics in 2000 and subsequent ...

.#23 Richest: Sergiy Tigipko, 50
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'' (December 17, 2010) After the parties merger Tihipko became a member of the Party of Regions.Man With A Mission
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'' (October 7, 2011) On 7 April 2014 the political council of this party expelled Tihipko from the Party of Regions. The party claimed to have over 80,000 members in mid-May 2010. In the

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the party won one constituency parliamentary seat.Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament
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(8 November 2014)
People's Front 0.33% ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with all ballots counted in Ukraine elections - CEC

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(8 November 2014)
Poroshenko Bloc to get 132 seats in parliament - CEC

(8 November 2014)

History

Labour Party Ukraine

Founded on 19 June 1999 as Labour Party Ukraine it did not participate in the

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elections of 30 March 2002. In the

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, the party failed as part of "

Bloc Borys Olijnyk and Myhailo Syrota The Bloc Borys Olijnyk and Myhailo Syrota () was an electoral alliance in Ukraine created in December 2005. In the 2006 parliamentary elections the alliance won 0.8% of the popular vote and no seats. In the 2007 parliamentary elections the party was part of the

Lytvyn Bloc The Lytvyn Bloc, formerly Lytvyn's People's Bloc, () was a Centrism, centrist political party, political alliance in Ukraine from 2006 till 2012 led by Volodymyr Lytvyn. It is one of successors of the previous political alliance For United Ukraine ...

alliance, that won 20 out of 450 seats.

Strong Ukraine

Re-branding and merger with Party of Regions

On 28 November 2009, at the 10th Congress, Labour Party Ukraine was renamed Strong Ukraine.Історія Партiї
, Party Official Website Strong Ukraine endorsed its new leader

(former partyleader of

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Trudova Ukraina elects a new chairman

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(27 November 2000)), also elected in November 2009,Партії "Сильна Україна" та "Інформаційна Україна" створили блок Сергія Тігіпка "Сильна Україна"

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(February 22, 2009) in the

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.Sylna Ukrayina party to support Tihipko in presidential elections
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'' (November 28, 2009) Fellow billionaire Oleksandr Kardakov was another influential member of the party. On 22 February 2010, during a party congress, the party announced it would compete in the

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not as part of the Lytvyn Bloc but in an

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with the party Information Ukraine. On 11 March 2010 party leader Tihipko was elected as one of six deputy Prime Ministers (in charge of economic issues) in the Azarov Government. A March 2010 poll predicted that the party would get 7.3% of the vote at the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election. A May 2010 poll by the ''Kyiv International Institute of Sociology'' showed that the party had the greatest support among voters in central Ukraine (11%), and less supported in the west and south (7%); the lowest number of this party's supporters was in east Ukraine (5%). At the 2010 local elections the party gained about 6% of the votes nationwide. In the 2010 local elections the party won representative in 20 of the 24 regional parliaments and in the

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. In May 2011 the rating of the party had dropped to about 5% in election polls. In August 2011 Tihipko and

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(and a

(POR) leader)

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announced that Strong Ukraine and POR are going to team up and eventually Strong Ukraine will be merged into POR. Tihipko will become a POR member along with other Strong Ukraine representatives.Strong Ukraine postpones decision on merger with Regions Party
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'' (22 October 2011) Mid-December 2011 Tihipko predicted the unification process would be completed late January 2012; but he also warned that if "problematic issues" would not be solved Strong Ukraine would not merge.Тігіпко назвав причини, які перешкодять йому стати "регіоналом"

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(16 December 2011) The parties merged on 17 March 2012.Tigipko hooks up with Party of Regions

(20 March 2012)
Strong Ukraine party decides on disbanding to join Regions Party

(17 March 2012) According to Sociological group "RATING" the party would have collected 3.1% of the votes if Ukrainian parliamentary election would have occurred in February 2012. In August 2012 experts believed potential voters of Tihipko and his Strong Ukraine! shifted their allegiance to Ukraine – Forward!.Korolevska recruits acting, sports stars for campaign
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'' (Aug. 2, 2012) In the 28 October 2012 parliamentary elections Ukraine – Forward won 1.58% of the national votes and no

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and thus failed to win parliamentary representation.Proportional votes

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Re-establishment

In March 2014 Tihipko became a self-nominated candidate for

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in the 2014 presidential election. On 29 March a Party of Regions convention supported Mykhailo Dobkin's nomination as a presidential candidate.Ukraine's Party of Regions expels presidential hopefuls Tigipko, Tsariov and Boiko

(7 April 2014) On 7 April 2014 the political council of the party expelled Tihipko from the party. He then accused that the party had "been turned into a branch of a specific financial and industrial group, a private enterprise". On 23 April 2014 Tihipko announced that Strong Ukraine would be revived and that its merger with Party of Regions had been "a mistake". On 5 August 2014 the party held its first Congress since its re-establishment."Strong Ukraine" revived"
gazeta.ua (8 August 2014) In the

Tihipko headed the party list of the party, followed by former government minister Valeriy Khoroshkovskyi. In the election the party failed to clear the 5%

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(it got 3.11% of the votes) but did win one constituency seat and thus one parliamentary seat.

Ideology and stances

According to Tihipko the party is "

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but not

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". Tihipko has stated he wants to "unite the country". Concerning the

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, on 5 August 2014 Tihipko said that in March and April 2014 the Yatsenyuk Government wasted a chance to resolve the conflict through negotiations, and that by early August 2014 this was no longer an option. He also stated that "Terrorists" and their supporters in the east of the country had passed a "point of no return". He supports a professional

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to prevent the conflict spreading to other parts of the country. The party seeks a peaceful resolution to the conflict by negotiating with

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through European mediators but not directly with the pro-Russian combatants.Speech by Serhiy Tihipko at Congress party "Strong Ukraine"
, Strong Ukraine official website (5 August 2014)
Ukraine should negotiate with Russia with Europe's mediation — Ukrainian official

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(5 August 2014)

Election results

Verkhovna Rada

Notes

References

External links

Official web site
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