Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists
political party
The Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (Ukrainian: Конгрес українських націоналістів, romanized: Konhres ukrayinskykh natsionalistiv) (KUN) is a far-right political party in Ukraine. It was founded on 18 October 1992 and registered with the Ministry of Justice on 26 January 1993. The party leader from its formation until her death in 2003 was Yaroslava Stetsko (people's deputy of three Verkhovna Rada conventions).
History
The party was set up late 1992 by émigrés of OUN-B on the initiative of Slava Stetsko and Roman Zvarych. It was registered on 26 January 1993 by the Ukrainian Ministry of Justice and was the 11th political party in Ukraine that was officially registered.
During the 1998 parliamentary election, the party was part (together with Ukrainian Conservative Republican Party and Ukrainian Republican Party) of the Election Bloc "National Front" (Ukrainian: Виборчий блок партій «Національний фронт») which won 2.71% of the national votes and 6 (single-mandate constituency) seats.
At the parliamentary elections on 30 March 2002, the party was part of the Viktor Yushchenko Bloc Our Ukraine. Former party leader Oleksiy Ivchenko was the head of Naftogas of Ukraine under the Yekhanurov Government. He was elected as the party leader at the seventh convention of the party on 13 April 2003.
During the parliamentary elections of 2006 on 26 March, the party was part of the Our Ukraine alliance.
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