Ukrainian People's Party
political party
The Ukrainian People's Party (Ukrainian: Українська Народна Партія; Ukrains'ka Narodna Partiya) is a centre-right political party in Ukraine, registered on Old Year's Day in 1999, and known until 2003 as the Ukrainian People's Movement (Ukrainian: Український Народний Рух; Ukrajins'kyi Narodnyj Rukh).
History
The party was founded as a merger of separate local branches of the People's Movement of Ukraine.
In the legislative elections in Ukraine, 30 March 2002, the Ukrainian National Movement was part of the Viktor Yushchenko Bloc Our Ukraine.
In January 2003 it changed the name to Ukrainian People's Party to avoid being confused with People's Movement of Ukraine, out of which it was originally split. Later that year, UNP on its first party congress under the new name, endorsed Viktor Yushchenko for the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election.
In the legislative elections in Ukraine, 26 March 2006, the party was part of the Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch, which has not crossed the 3% threshold in that election, and would later be dissolved.
In the parliamentary elections on 30 September 2007, the party was part of the Our Ukraine alliance, that won 72 out of 450 seats.
In the 2010 local elections the party won a few representative in regional parliaments.
The party announced it will be merged into Our Ukraine in December 2011. This process started mid-December 2011.
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