Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc
Blok Juliji Tymoshenko ( German: Block Yulia Tymoshenko, abbreviation BJuT ). . Was a party alliance in Ukraine 2002-2012 His successor consists of the Group of the All-Ukrainian Union " Fatherland" in the Verkhovna Rada from 2012 chairman and namesake was the politician Yulia Tymoshenko.
History
The block was established in the framework of the Ukrainian parliamentary elections of 2002. Instrumental in the Founded in 1999, moderate nationalist and corporatist All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" of Yulia Tymoshenko, the Ukrainian Social Democratic Party ( USDP ), the nationalist Ukrainian People's Party " collection " and the Ukrainian Republican Party were. The Alliance won 7.3% of the vote and was 21 of the 450 seats in the Verkhovna Rada show. The BJuT founded an eponymous Group in Parliament.
In the presidential elections in Ukraine in 2004, the block supported the candidacy of Viktor Yushchenko, whose election victory was officially recognized only after the Orange Revolution. The revolution has been driven alongside Yushchenko alliance Nasha Ukrajina significantly from BJuT. On January 24, 2005 Yushchenko appointed Tymoshenko as prime minister. Soon, however, there was a rift on 8 September, the President dismissed Tymoshenko's government again, and her block went into opposition.
In the parliamentary elections of 2006, the Alliance was able to clearly define and came to 22.3 % and 129 seats, so it was the strongest of the parties of the Orange Revolution. When a coalition of pro-Western forces Tymoshenko would probably once again become Prime Minister. Surprisingly, however, the Socialist Party of Ukraine decided to support the anti-crisis coalition under Viktor Yanukovych with the Party of Regions and the Communists. Therefore, belonging to BJuT parliamentary faction was now leading opposition force.
In the early parliamentary elections of 2007, the BJuT in initial projections was strongest. But at last he landed again in second place after the Party of Regions. With almost 31 % of the vote, however, he was able to expand its position in the Rada. As he and the electoral alliance Nasha Ukraine Corporation - has Narodna Samooborona (NU -NS ) via a thin majority, the block targeted a government of the forces of the so-called "Orange Revolution" to. On the evening of October 15 the two electoral alliances have signed a coalition agreement which of the BJuT zubilligt the post of head of government.
The Blok Juliji Tymoshenko is in contact with the FDP. 2007 the BJuT was offered observer status at the European People's Party. In 2010, he sends his chairman and namesake as a candidate in the presidential election in Ukraine.
2010 Juliji Tymoshenko lost the presidential elections in Ukraine, but came in second place after Viktor Yanukovych. In March 2010, she was dismissed as Prime Minister of the Ukrainian parliament. In early 2012 the party was Ukraine - Forward, the previous USDP excluded for alleged cooperation with the government of President Yanukovych from the Blok Juliji Tymoshenko. In the parliamentary elections the same year the remaining two members of the block competed together with the front of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar changes and the people under the umbrella of the All-Ukrainian union Fatherland.
Member parties
- All-Ukrainian Union " Fatherland" - Wseukrajinske objednannja " Batkivshchyna "
- Reforms and Order Party (PRP ) - Partija Reformy i Porjadok
- To 2012: Ukraine - Forward! - Previously Ukrajinska social Demokratytschna Partija ( USDP )
Politician
Important representatives of BJuT were:
- Yulia Tymoshenko, chairman of the BJuT, chairman of the parliamentary faction, chairman of the party "Fatherland"
- Oleksandr Turchynov, deputy chairman of the party "Fatherland"
- Yevhen Kornijtschuk, Chairman of USDP
- Olena Schustik, deputy leader of the USDP
- Viktor Pynsenyk, Chairman of the PRP
- Volodymyr Bondarenko, deputy chairman of the party PRP