Political party “European Solidarity”
Main information
The European Solidarity Party (ES) is a Ukrainian political party of conservative and center-right orientation, from August 27, 2014 to May 24, 2019 it was called the Petro Poroshenko Bloc “Solidarity”. On May 24, 2019, the party changed its name to European Solidarity.
Registration: May 5, 2000.
Website: https://eurosolidarity.org
Headquarters: Kyiv, 16 Lavrska St.
Political ideology:liberal conservatism, Christian democracy, liberalism, civic nationalism, pan-Europeanism
Membership in international organizations: European People’s Party
Allies, blocs: none
Party leader: Mykhailo Antoniuk (May 5, 2000 — November 15, 2001), Petro Poroshenko (since November 15, 2001)
Head of the faction in the parliament:Petro Poroshenko
History.
The first chairman of the party was Mykhailo Antoniuk. In November 2001, Petro Poroshenko was elected leader of the party. In December of the same year, the party joined Viktor Yushchenko’s electoral bloc Our Ukraine, and Petro Poroshenko was appointed head of the bloc’s electoral headquarters. On June 17, 2013, Solidarnist decided to join the All-Ukrainian Union Batkivshchyna. The party was headed by a member of the Batkivshchyna faction, Yuriy Stets.
According to the results of the early presidential election on May 25, 2014, Poroshenko won, receiving 54.7% of the vote, according to the CEC.
On August 27, 2014, the Solidarity party was renamed the Petro Poroshenko Bloc. Former Minister of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko was elected as the head of the Bloc. According to him, the party will become a platform for uniting all equal democratic forces. In his turn, Petro Poroshenko expressed hope that this would enable the future parliament to implement the reforms he proposed. By the end of July, the rating of the political force fluctuated between 11.1% and 20.3% (taking into account who will be its chairman).
On September 2, the Ukrainian party of Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko, UDAR, decided to run for the 2014 parliamentary elections together with the Petro Poroshenko Bloc.
According to Yuriy Lutsenko, the party expects to get at least 226 people in the elections, while it will support non-party activists in majority districts and is ready to join forces with other political forces.
On September 25, 2014, Poroshenko presented a plan for the development of Ukraine for the next six years, which actually forms the basis of his party’s election program. The “Strategy-2020” envisages the implementation of 60 reforms and special programs, the implementation of which will prepare Ukraine to apply for EU membership in six years. Poroshenko expects that by 2020 Ukraine will be in the top 20 of the global competitiveness and business rankings.
On September 26, 2014, the Central Election Commission of Ukraine registered 193 candidates for the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from the Petro Poroshenko Bloc. The party also nominated candidates in majority constituencies.
At the congress of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc “Solidarity” party on May 24, 2019, it was decided to change the name of the political party to “European Solidarity”.
It is noted that the proposal to change the name was put forward during the Forum of the NGO “Solidarity Cause of Communities”, which was held with the participation of Petro Poroshenko.
During his speech at the forum of civil society activists, Poroshenko also said that on May 31, a congress of the renewed party would be held, which would be widely represented by leaders of NGOs, volunteers, volunteers, and young people.
Following the 2019 Presidential Election and the dissolution of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine by newly elected Volodymyr Zelenskyi and the early parliamentary elections he called for July 21, at the party’s congress on May 24, 2019, the delegates supported the proposal of civil society activists voiced during the Forum of the NGO Solidarity Cause of Communities, which was held with the participation of Petro Poroshenko, to change the name to European Solidarity. Changes in the party are taking place with an emphasis on the participation of local leaders, volunteers and young politicians in the renewal of the political force. The party’s partner is the Solidarity Cause of Communities, which, according to the signed memorandum, will be responsible for the primaries in the nomination of candidates for deputies.
On May 31, a congress was held at the Mystetskyi Arsenal, where Petro Poroshenko was elected leader of the party by a majority of votes in favor, replacing Vitali Klitschko. The new leadership of the party was also elected.
The composition of the party:
26 people joined the central political council: Volodymyr Ariev, Stepan Barna, Yuriy Biryukov, Dinara Gabibulayeva, Vitaliy Haidukevych, Iryna Gerashchenko, Artur Herasymov, Mykhailo Dovbenko, Virginia Dronova, Hennadiy Zubko, Maria Ionova, Ruslan Kniazevych, and Volodymyr Kushnir, Iryna Lutsenko, Ivan Melnychuk, Artur Pereverziev, Oleksandr Pohrebyskyi, Petro Poroshenko, Tetiana Rychkova, Maksym Savrasov, Oleh Synyutka, Viktor Taran, Olena Ursulenko, Sofia Fedyna, Iryna Friz, Nina Yuzhanina.
The party presidium included: Iryna Herashchenko, Maria Ionova, Yuriy Biryukov, Serhiy Taran, Vitaliy Haidukevych, Oleh Synyutka, Maksym Savrasov and Petro Poroshenko.
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