The Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform of Vitali Klitschko (, using the acronym UDAR Vitali Klitschko () translates to "strike" or "punch", ) is a

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headed by retiredVitali Klitschko: Heavyweight champion swaps boxing for politics

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(67 December 2013) Ukrainian professional

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and WBC world heavyweight champion emeritus

Vitali Klitschko Vitalii Volodymyrovych Klychko (; ; born 19 July 1971), known as Vitali Klitschko, is a Ukrainian politician and former professional boxer. He serves as mayor of Kyiv,European People's Party The European People's Party (EPP) is a European political party with Christian democracy, Christian democratic, liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative, and conservative member parties. A transnational organisation, it is composed of other p ...

(EPP) since 2013.Європейська народна партія взяла до себе "УДАР" і виключила "Нашу Україну" ''European People's Party took a "hit" and excluded "Our Ukraine"''

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(6 September 2013)
Member Parties
,

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Klitschko goes to the Congress of the European People's Party, Glavcom (19 November 2019)
/ref> The party's original name was Political Party "European Capital" (,

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: Политическая партия "Европейская столица"), founded in March 2005 by businessman Lev Partshaladze.Політична партія "УДАР (Український Демократичний Альянс за Реформи) Віталія Кличка"
Центр политической информации "Дата" On 24 April 2010, it was renamed Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform and elected boxer

: Блок Виталия Кличко), during the

2008 Kyiv local election Snap mayoral and city council elections were held in Kyiv on 25 May 2008. The election, originally scheduled to be held alongside nationwide 2010 Ukrainian local elections, 2010 local elections, was called by the Verkhovna Rada by a 246–5 vote ...

.Віталій Кличко очолив політичну партію «УДАР» (фото)
Vitali Klitschko Bloc (April 24, 2010) The party won 40 seats in the

2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 28 October 2012.Parli ...

. In the 2014 parliamentary election, 30% of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc election list was filled by members of UDAR (as

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) and UDAR leader Klitschko topped that list. The Petro Poroshenko Bloc won the election with 132 seats.Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament

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

(8 November 2014) UDAR officially merged into the Petro Poroshenko Bloc on 28 August 2015.Klitschko becomes leader of Petro Poroshenko Bloc 'Solidarity' party

(28 August 2015) In May 2019 Klitschko announced that UDAR would take part independently in the

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.Klitschko said that UDAR will go to the polls

(May 18, 2019) In this election UDAR did compete as an independent party again, but only in 15 single-mandate constituencies and it failed to win any seats. In the 2020 Kyiv local election UDAR won 30 of the 120 seats of the

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. In the same election Klitschko was reelected as

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with 50.52% of the votes.

History

Political Party "European Capital"

The Political Party "European Capital" was registered in March 2005 (its party-leader was Ukrainian businessman Lev PartshaladzePartshaladze Lev

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Парцхаладзе Лев Ревазович
Информационно-аналитический центр "ЛІГА") and the party gained 0.04% of the votes during the Ukrainian parliamentary elections 2006; the party did not participate in the 2007 Ukrainian parliamentary elections. In February 2009 the party renamed itself Political Party "New Country".Політична партія "УДАР (Український Демократичний Альянс за Реформи) Віталія Кличка"
Poli.in.ua Lev Partshaladze was elected into the

for the Vitaliy Klychko Bloc in 2008, but expelled from the faction, for repeatedly voting differently from the faction, on 2 December 2010.

Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform

On a party congress on 24 April 2010, the party "New Country" (the name that "European Capital" had adopted 14 months earlier)) renamed itself once more to "Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform" and elected boxer

the party won about 400 representatives in municipalities and Oblast Councils (regional parliaments).Klitschko To The Rescue?

(12 January 2012) The Bloc of Vitali Klitschko faction in the

changed its name to UDAR of Vitali Klitschko in February 2011. The party has a strong popularity in Kyiv. Ukr elections 2012 multimandate oblasts udar

Ukr elections 2012 multimandate oblasts udar

In September 2011 party leader Klitschko stated that the party was considering the possibility of merging with other political parties before contending in the

2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 28 October 2012.Parli ...

s. In December 2011 UDAR of Vitali Klitschko and Civil Position where negotiating a unification. But Civil Position eventionally joined Batkivshchyna during these elections. UDAR became a partner of the Christian Democratic Union of

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in November 2011. Udar is supported by the German government and the

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and received support in particular from

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and also politicians from the conservative

. According to information gained by the German magazine DER SPIEGEL, the target was to "set up Klitschko purposefully as a new strong man in Kiew - in order to counter this way the Kremlin's growing influence". Support consisted in logistics, training and joint performances. Assistance was also promised by Christoph Heusgen, Ronald Pofalla and Guido Westerwelle. UDAR did not join the Dictatorship Resistance Committee; but on 22 January 2012 it did sign an agreement on joint actions with that alliance. Starting in March 2010 the party's popularity in opinion polls reached a level almost twice as high as the election threshold (which was raised to 5% in November 2011Parliament passes law on parliamentary elections

(17 November 2011)). The election list of the party was a mixture of candidates who used to represent parties from all over the political spectrum of Ukraine. After a successful application the

started on 5 April 2012 the process of making UDAR an ''observer member'' of the organization.EPP accepts UDAR Party's application to get observer status

(5 April 2012)
Ukraine elections: `unfair play` of government authorities distorts outcome

(30 October 2012) In July 2012 party leader Klychko stated that his party would not cooperate with the

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in a new parliament. In early August 2012 the party complained its candidates for people's deputies (and all other parties not involved in the

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) suffered "psychological and physical pressure" and this "ten times higher than other parties". Two weeks before the 28 October

2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election Parliamentary elections were held in Ukraine on 28 October 2012.Parli ...

UDAR withdrew 26 of its candidates running in

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in favour of Batkivshchyna candidates and Batkivshchyna withdrew 26 parliamentary candidates in favor of UDAR in an attempt to maximise votes for the opposition. In the election the party won 13.97% of the national votes and 6

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(it had competed in 183 of the 225 constituencies) and thus 40 parliamentary seats.Proportional votes

,

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Support for UDAR was the least diversified at the regional level compared with the results of the other leading parties.After the parliamentary elections in Ukraine: a tough victory for the Party of Regions
, Centre for Eastern Studies (7 November 2012) Independent candidates Yaroslav Dubnevych and Fedir Nehoi joined the UDAR parliamentary faction on 12 December 2012; the same day party leader Klitschko was elected to lead the party's faction. UDAR elects faction's leadership in parliament

(12 December 2012) The party is coordinating its parliamentary activities with Batkivshchyna and Svoboda. In late December 2012 UDAR and the United National Movement from

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signed a cooperation agreement. In May 2013 UDAR, Batkivshchyna and Svoboda vowed to coordinate their actions during the 2015 Ukrainian presidential election. On 6 September 2013 the party was granted "observer status" in the

. Party leader Klitschko confirmed on 28 February 2014 that he would take part in the

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(, this also ended the May 2013 agreement to coordinate with Batkivshchyna and Svoboda). But on 29 March 2014 announced that he had changed his mind and would run for the post of

in the 2014 Kyiv local election (including Mayoral elections) set for 25 May 2014.Parliament sets elections for Kyiv mayor and Kyiv City Council deputies for May 25

(25 February 2014) In the 2014 Ukrainian presidential election Klitschko endorsed the candidacy of

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. Klitschko won Kyiv's mayoral elections with almost 57% of the votes.Klitschko officially announced as winner of Kyiv mayor election

(4 June 2014) Poroshenko was elected

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on 25 May 2014. Klitschko was sworn in as Mayor on 5 June 2014.Vitali Klitschko sworn in as Kyiv mayor

(5 June 2014) The same day the Ukrainian parliament had deprived Klitschko of his MP mandate (Ukrainian MPs are not entitled to combine parliamentary activities with any other public employment).Klitschko becomes Kyiv Mayor officially

Ukrinform The National News Agency of Ukraine (), or Ukrinform (), is a state information and news agency, and international broadcaster of Ukraine. It was founded in 1918 during the Ukrainian War of IndependenceKlitschko was deprived of parliamentary mandate, NovostiMira (5 June 2014)
/ref> Hence Vitaliy Kovalchuk was elected to lead the party's faction in parliament on 7 June 2014.Fraction Klitschko Council headed by his "gray cardinal"

(7 June 2014)

Merge into the Petro Poroshenko Bloc

On 2 September Kovalchuk stated that since his party and Petro Poroshenko Bloc had agreed to "joint participation in parliamentary elections" on 29 March 2014 the two parties were "in discussion" about "the format" for how to do so in the (late) October

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. On 15 September it became clear that 30% of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc election list would be filled by members of UDAR and that UDAR leader

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.Pilots, combat, and journalists. Who goes to the new Verkhovna Rada

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(September 15, 2014)
Klitschko: I lead my team to Parliament

UDAR The Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform of Vitali Klitschko (, using the acronym UDAR Vitali Klitschko () translates to "strike" or "punch", ) is a Political parties in Ukraine, political party in Ukraine headed by retired

official website (14.09.2014)
Deadline for nomination of candidates running in early election to Rada expires
ITAR-TASS (September 15, 2014) Petro Poroshenko Bloc went on to win the

with 132 seats; surpassing the runner up People's Front which won 82 seats. However, People's Front did perform better than the Petro Poroshenko Bloc with 0.33% in the nationwide election under party lists (22.14% against 21.81%) but the party did win 69

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seats while People's Front won only 18 constituencies. On 28 August 2015 Petro Poroshenko Bloc and UDAR merged into 1 party, Petro Poroshenko Bloc. At the unifying congress (of 28 August 2015) Klitschko was elected as leader of this party. In 2017 UDAR was still registered as a political party and it employed two persons.In Ukraine, 2/3 of the parties showed zeroes in the financial statements

(8 December 2017) According to former UDAR member and Ukrainian lawmaker Dmytro Belotserkovets it was necessary that "the party performs only the technical functions necessary in terms of Ukrainian legislation."

Return as a political party

On 18 May 2019 party leader Klitschko announced that the party would take part in the

. On 4 June Klitschko offered former

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to join the leadership of his party and to take part in the July 2019 early parliamentary elections with UDAR, Saakashvili turned down the offer. In the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election the party only competed in 15 single-mandate constituencies. It failed to win any seats.CEC counts 100 percent of vote in Ukraine's parliamentary elections

(21 July 2019) The party's most successful candidate was who won 14.83% of the votes in constituency 89 located in Sniatyn (

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). Its second most successful candidate, Valentyn Mondryivskyi, gained 4.84% of the votes in

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. In the election for

of the 2020 Kyiv local election UDAR nominated incumbent mayor Klitschko as their candidate.Klitschko reacted to support from Poroshenko's party: We are not bargaining

(16 September 2020)
"Eurosolidarity" will support Klitschko in the elections in Kyiv

(16 September 2020) Klitschko was last reelected in the election with 50.52% of the votes, in the first round of the election.Vitali Klitschko wins in first round of Kyiv mayor election

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seats in the 2020 Kyiv local election.Results of the 2020 elections of the Kyiv City Council

In total in the whole of Ukraine the party gained 187 deputies (0.43% of all available mandates). In the elections for the Kyiv Oblast Council the party did not win any seats after finishing 9th place in the election.

Ideology and political positions

UDAR tends to avoid sensitive and polarising subjects and focuses instead on popular topics, such as more empowerment to ordinary Ukrainians and a ruthless campaign against

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, the indifference of the authorities, the lack of local governance, inequality, and poverty.Q&A:Ukrainian parliamentary election

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(23 October 2012)Ukraine election:President Yanukovych party claims win

(29 October 2012). The party wants to "unleash the power of the state and provide conditions for welfare". The party is in favor of the

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between Ukraine and the

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(EU). It has made no stance on a possible NATO membership of Ukraine. UDAR wants to overcome social inequality with "the abandonment of the idea of cheap labor". In education, the party wants to bring

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to "European standards" by "development of external testing and monitoring the quality of education". UDAR wants to return to a 12-year compulsory

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with specialized training in the last two classes and three cycles of learning in

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—

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and

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. It also wants to guarantee autonomy of educational institutions by legislation. The party wants to combat corruption in Ukraine with more transparency and the creation of an independent anti-corruption agency.Klitschko: We'll leave only seven nationwide taxes, root out government corruption
''

'' (1 April 2012) UDAR wants to reduce the number of state agencies in order "to minimize the interaction of the citizen with an official". And it wants to simplify procedures for registering property. It wants to reduce the number of taxes from 23 to 7 and to generally simplify the taxing system. "Owners of the land for agricultural purposes" should only be citizens of Ukraine. UDAR wants to abolish the privileges of the

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(Ukraine's parliament) and former

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and to reduce benefits for current parliamentarians. The party has pledged to "reboot" the

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, and "reinforce the control of the public over elections". The party is in favor of holding Citizens' initiatives after 150,000 signatures are collected. The party is in favor of elections with regional

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s and mayoral elections in two rounds. In

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, it favors a voting age of 16 (currently 18). It also wants to introduce in Ukraine a law on

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of the

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. The party wants to simplify procedures for the establishment and registration of public and charitable organizations. In June 2013, the party's parliamentary faction voted for the denunciation of the 2010 Ukrainian–Russian Naval Base for Natural Gas treaty.Rada fails to support bill on denunciation of Kharkiv accords on Black Sea Fleet basing in Ukraine

(19 June 2013)

Election results

Verkhovna Rada

Kyiv City Council

Leaders

Notes

References

External links

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(Official) website with UDAR candidates for the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election
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