Labour Ukraine

Not to be confused with Labour Party Ukraine.

Labour Ukraine (Ukrainian: Трудова Україна, romanized: Trudova Ukraina)^[1] is a political party in Ukraine registered in June 2000.^[1] On 30 November 2018, the party was dissolved along with other Opposition Bloc members.^[2]

Labour Ukraine Трудова Україна
Founded	June 21, 2000[1]
Dissolved	30 November 2018
Ideology	Labourism Liberalism
Political position	Centre-left
National affiliation	Opposition Bloc
Colours	Dark blue
Politics of Ukraine Political parties Elections

History

A Labour Ukraine faction was created after the 1998 parliamentary election^[3] on April 20, 1999.^[4] In September 2000 the Labour Ukraine faction in the Ukrainian Parliament numbered 45 MPs and was the second largest entity in the parliament.^[5] Serhiy Tihipko was elected party leader in November 2000.^[4] The party supported President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma during his presidency.^[6]

At the legislative elections of 30 March 2002, the party was part of the For United Ukraine alliance.^[7] winning 49 seats, their list of deputies included Viktor Pinchuk.^[8] The party leader was Serhiy Tyhypko.^[9] After the 2004 presidential election Tihipko stepped out of Ukrainian politics, resigning as Labour Ukraine leader on April 23, 2005,^[10] before returning to it in the 2010 presidential election.^[11]

In the 2006 elections, the party failed on its own to win parliamentary representation, winning only 0,09% of the votes.^[1]

In the 2007 parliamentary elections the party did not participate.^[1] In this election Labour Ukraine members, including party leader Valeriy Konovalyuk, decided to join the Party of Regions election list.^[12] Again in the 2012 parliamentary elections the party was absent.^[13]

In the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election members of the party took part in the elections on the party list of Opposition Bloc; Opposition Bloc won 29 seats.^[14][15][16]