{{distinguish|United Ukraine}} {{Infobox political party | country = Ukraine | native_name = За Єдину Україну! | logo = For United Ukraine party logo.svg | leader = Volodymyr Lytvyn<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.zaedu.org.ua/index.phtml?razd=leaders |title=Leaders of the "Za Yedynu Ukrayinu" bloc |access-date=2008-02-25 |date= 2002-11-24 |work=Za Yediny Ukrayinu! |language=uk |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20041208203028/http://www.zaedu.org.ua/index.phtml?razd=leaders |archive-date= 2004-12-08}}</ref> | foundation = {{start date|2001|12|15|df=yes}} | ideology = {{plainlist| *Pro-Kuchma * Authoritarianism<ref name="RFE">{{Cite news |date=9 April 2002 |title=Чим є блок "За єдину Україну", який посів третє місце на виборах у загальнодержавному окрузі і має шанси сформувати найбільшу фракцію у парламенті за рахунок депутатів від мажоритарних округів? |language=uk |trans-title=What is the "For United Ukraine" bloc, which took third place in the elections in the state-wide district and has a chance to form the largest faction in the parliament at the expense of deputies from the majority districts? |work=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |url=https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/888446.html |access-date=16 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Ocheretiana |first1=Mariia |last2=Zabolotnyi |first2=Nazar |date=26 August 2021 |title=Carried away by authoritarianism. Lessons of the second term of Kuchma |work=Centre of United Actions |url=https://centreua.org/en/parliamentary-republic/carried-away-by-authoritarianism-lessons-of-the-second-term-of-kuchma/ |access-date=2 June 2022}}</ref> * Regionalism * Russophilia * Parliamentarism }} | position = Centre | colorcode = {{party color|For United Ukraine!}} | dissolved = June 2002 | colours = {{Color box|{{party color|For United Ukraine!}}|border=darkgray}} Blue and {{Color box|#FFD800}} Yellow (Ukrainian national colors) | headquarters = Kyiv | website = [https://web.archive.org/web/20050210095119/http://www.zaedu.org.ua/ www.zaedu.org.ua] }} {{Politics of Ukraine}}
'''For United Ukraine!''' ({{langx|uk|«За Єдину Україну!»|translit=Za Yedynu Ukrayinu!}}) was a political alliance and an electoral bloc in Ukraine founded in December 2001 to participate in the parliamentary election held on 31 March 2002.
==History== In the parliamentary election, the party was supportive of authoritarian,<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kuzio |first=Taras |date=June 2005 |title=Regime type and politics in Ukraine under Kuchma |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967067X05000231 |journal=Communist and Post-Communist Studies |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=167–190 |doi=10.1016/j.postcomstud.2005.03.007 |via=Elsevier Science Direct|url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Way |first=Lucan A. |date=April 2005 |title=Ukraine's Orange Revolution: Kuchma's Failed Authoritarianism |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236704745 |journal=Journal of Democracy |volume=16 |issue=2 |pages=131–45 |doi=10.1353/jod.2005.0037 |s2cid=154821116 |via=ResearchGate}}</ref> incumbent President Leonid Kuchma, and opposed to the pro-democratic Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc.<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 May 2002 |title=Чи перетворяться блоки "Наша Україна" і "За єдину Україну" на єдині потужні партії? |language=uk |trans-title=Will blocs "Our Ukraine" and "For United Ukraine" become powerful parties? |work=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |url=https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/889637.html |access-date=16 July 2022}}</ref> It was described by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty as a "party of power", including oligarchs, bureaucrats, and pro-Kuchma politicians, as an attempt to further increase Kuchma's power through constitutional and extra-constitutional means.<ref name="RFE">{{Cite news |date=9 April 2002 |title=Чим є блок "За єдину Україну", який посів третє місце на виборах у загальнодержавному окрузі і має шанси сформувати найбільшу фракцію у парламенті за рахунок депутатів від мажоритарних округів? |language=uk |trans-title=What is the "For United Ukraine" bloc, which took third place in the elections in the state-wide district and has a chance to form the largest faction in the parliament at the expense of deputies from the majority districts? |work=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty |url=https://www.radiosvoboda.org/a/888446.html |access-date=16 July 2022}}</ref> At the election, the alliance won 11.77%<ref name="DATA">{{in lang|uk}} [http://da-ta.com.ua/mon_mainnews/876.htm Політична партія „Трудова Україна“], Database DATA</ref> of the popular vote and a total of 102 out of 450 seats, placing it in third behind Our Ukraine and the Communist Party of Ukraine.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1 April 2002 |title="Наша Україна" лідирує в 14 областях України, Компартія - в 10, блок "За єдину Україну" – аж в 2-ох. Так чому ж такі результати? |language=uk |trans-title="Our Ukraine" leads in 14 oblasts, KPU in 10, "For United Ukraine" bloc in 2. Why these results? |work=Ukrayinska Pravda |url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/news/2002/04/1/2987966/ |access-date=16 July 2022}}</ref> Final poll results had predicted 7-8% of the total votes.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1898223.stm Ukraine's election frontrunners], BBC News (28 March 2002)</ref> The alliance received many of its votes from Donetsk Oblast.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Jlja1Brj8HkC&dq=%22For+a+United+Ukraine%22&pg=PA47 State Building in Ukraine: The Ukrainian parliament, 1990-2003 (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)] by Sarah Whitmore, Routledge, 2004, {{ISBN|0415331951}}/{{ISBN|978-0415331951}}</ref>
The alliance consisted of the 5 following members:<ref name=Vandenhoeck>[https://books.google.com/books?id=H23Pv4Ik3vMC&dq=Volodymyr+Shcherban&pg=PA391 Communist and Post-Communist Parties in Europe], Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008, {{ISBN|3-525-36912-3}} (page 391)</ref><ref>{{in lang|uk}} [http://da-ta.com.ua/election_news/957.htm 2002 Виборчий блок політичних партій "За Єдину Україну!"], Database DATA</ref> * Party of Regions ({{Langx|uk|Партія регіонів|translit=Partiia rehioniv}}),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.partyofregions.org.ua/eng/ |title=Official informational server |access-date=2008-02-24 |work=Party of Regions |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110215131815/http://www.partyofregions.org.ua/eng/ |archive-date=2011-02-15 }}</ref> led by Volodymyr Semynozhenko. * Agrarian Party of Ukraine ({{Langx|uk|Аграрна партія України|links=no|translit=Ahrarna partiia Ukrayiny}}), led by Governor of Lviv Oblast Mykhailo Hladiy.<ref name=Vandenhoeck/> * Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine ({{Langx|uk|Партія промисловців i підприємців України|links=no|translit=Partiya promyslovtsiv i pidpryiemtsiv Ukrayiny}}, PPPU),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pppu.info/|title=Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine (PIEU)|access-date=2008-02-24|work=Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine|language=uk|archive-date=2008-12-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216020655/http://www.pppu.info/|url-status=dead}}</ref> led by Anatoliy Kinakh.<ref name=Vandenhoeck/> * People's Democratic Party ({{Langx|uk|Народно-демократична партія|links=no|translit=Narodno-demokratychna partiia}}),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ndp.org.ua/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981111190214/http://ndp.org.ua/|url-status=dead|archive-date=1998-11-11|title=Official website of the People's Democratic Party|access-date=2008-02-24|work=People's Democratic Party|language=uk}}</ref> led by former Prime Minister Valeriy Pustovoitenko.<ref name=Vandenhoeck/> * Labour Ukraine ({{Langx|uk|Трудова Україна|links=no|translit=Trudova Ukrayina}}),<ref>{{cite web|url=http://trud.org.ua/ |title=Informational portal TRUD.org.ua (now defunct)|access-date=2008-02-24|date= 2006-06-12|work=Labour Ukraine|language=uk |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060612201532/http://trud.org.ua/ |archive-date = 2006-06-12}}</ref> led by Serhiy Tyhypko.<ref name=Vandenhoeck/>
Top-10 party list: Volodymyr Lytvyn (non-partisan), Anatoliy Kinakh (Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine), Kateryna Vashchuk (Agrarian Party of Ukraine), Volodymyr Boyko (Party of Regions), Viktor Skopenko (Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine), Valeriy Pustovoitenko (People's Democratic Party), Serhiy Tihipko (Labour Ukraine), Volodymyr Semynozhenko (Party of Regions), Mykhailo Hladiy (Agrarian Party of Ukraine), Heorhiy Kirpa (non-partisan).<ref>[https://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2002/04/4/4366903/ Meet the "Eda" faction. 150 deputies (Знакомьтесь, фракция "еды". 150 депутатов)]. Ukrayinska Pravda. 4 April 2002</ref>
{| class=wikitable style=text-align:right !rowspan=2|Party !colspan=3|PR !Constituency !rowspan=2|Total<br />seats !rowspan=2|+/– |- !Votes !% !Seats !Seats |- |align=left|For United Ukraine (bloc)||'''3,051,056'''||'''12.2'''||'''35'''||'''66'''||'''101'''||New |- |align=left|Party of Regions|| || ||6||25||31||+29 |- |align=left|Agrarian Party of Ukraine|| || ||7||15||22||+20 |- |align=left|Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine|| || ||5||1||6||New |- |align=left|People's Democratic Party|| || ||7||10||17||-11 |- |align=left|Labour Ukraine (''Trudova Ukrayina'')|| || ||2||2||4||New |- |align=left|unaffiliated|| || ||8||13||21||- |}
==Since the election== The electoral bloc disintegrated in June 2002, following the 2002 Ukrainian parliamentary election.<ref>[https://www.utoronto.ca/jacyk/Kuzio_ComparativeRevolutions.pdf Democratic Breakthroughs and Revolutions in Five Post-Communist Countries: Comparative Perspectives on the Fourth Wave] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121004134223/http://www.utoronto.ca/jacyk/Kuzio_ComparativeRevolutions.pdf |date=2012-10-04 }} by Taras Kuzio, University of Toronto</ref>
==See also== * United Russia, a pro-Putin political project created in 2001 * Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc, main opponent
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{cite web|url=http://www.zaedu.org.ua/ |title=Main Page (now defunct)|access-date=2008-02-24|date= 2002-11-24|work=Za Yedynu Ukrayinu!|language=uk |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050210095119/http://www.zaedu.org.ua/ |archive-date = 2005-02-10}} * {{cite web|url=http://www.cvk.gov.ua/v98images/doc/Fin_195.htm|title=Financial account of the Electoral bloc "Za Yedynu Ukrayinu!"|access-date=2008-02-24|work=Central Election Commission of Ukraine|language=uk}} * {{cite web|url=http://party.civicua.org/s0248033.htm|title=Electoral bloc "Za Yedynu Ukrayinu!"|access-date=2008-02-24|work=party.civicua.org|language=uk|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071026185402/http://party.civicua.org/s0248033.htm|archive-date=2007-10-26}}
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