Democratic Alliance Демократичний альянс Демократический альянс | |
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| Leader | Nikita Murenko andAlexander Kuchinsky(co-chair)[1][2] |
| Founded | 2011 (2011)[3] |
| Headquarters | Kyiv |
| Ideology | Christian democracy[3][4] |
| Political position | Centre-right[4] |
| European affiliation | Youth of the European People's Party[5] |
| Regions | 0 / 158,399 |
| Website | |
| http://www.dem-alliance.org/ | |
Democratic Alliance (Ukrainian:Демократичний альянс,romanized: Demokratychnyi alians,Russian: Демократический альянс) is a pro-Europeanpolitical party inUkraine, registered in September 2011, formed on a basis of an anti-corruption platform and Young Christian Democrats of Ukraine NGO.[6][7][8]
Before becoming a political party,Democratic Alliance was a youth organization.[9] The objective of the organization was "to form a newChristian-democratic, responsible, patriotic-oriented social and political elite of the country through the creation of conditions for the development, improvement and implementation of youth".[9]
The party has organized protests againstcorruption and fraud[10] and it took part in theEuromaidan protests.[11] Because of its involvement in various protests the party claimed that in May 2012 theUkrainian Ministry of Justice attempted to eliminate its registration as a legal political party.[10] Members of the party have been arrested while taking part in protests.[12] Two party members were shot dead by Ukrainian security forces while participating in the deadlyEuromaidan protests of February 2014.[13]
The party did not participate in the2012 parliamentary elections.[14] During theEuromaidan protest movement, the party played an active role.[3]
In early June 2014, the Democratic Alliance denied membership toLGBT activist Bohdan Globa because the party did not believe he shared the view "that family is made up of a man and a woman" with the party.[3]
Early September 2014, it was established that the party would participate in the2014 parliamentary election on the partly list ofCivil Position.[15] For elections in single mandate constituencies, both parties participated separately.[16] In the election this combined party list failed to clear the 5%election threshold (it got 3.1% of the votes) and also both parties did not win a constituency seat and thus (both) no parliamentary seats.[17] In the2014 Kyiv local election of the same day, Democratic Alliance won 2council seats.[18][19]
In the2015 Kyiv local election the party lost its seats in the Kyiv City Council (it scored 4.56% of the vote).[20] The party won 27 seats in the (other)2015 Ukrainian local elections.[21] In this election it did relatively well in theDonbas.[22][23]
In August 2016 high-profile Ukrainian MPsSvitlana Zalishchuk,Serhiy Leshchenko andMustafa Nayyem from thePetro Poroshenko Bloc joined to Democratic Alliance.[24] From Autumn 2015 until June 2016 they and the leadership of Democratic Alliance had been part of an attempt to form a political party around thenGovernor of Odesa OblastMikheil Saakashvili with members of the parliamentary groupInterfactional Union "Eurooptimists", Democratic Alliance and possiblySelf Reliance until this projection collapsed in June 2016.[25]
On 9 October 2018, Democratic Alliance and Self Reliance announced they would supportLviv MayorAndriy Sadovyi as their joint candidate in the2019 Ukrainian presidential election.[26] On 1 March 2019 Sadovyi decided to withdraw from the election to support the candidacy ofAnatoliy Hrytsenko.[27] (Hrytsenko did not proceed to the second round of the election; in the first round he placed fifth with 6.91% of the votes.[28])
Democratic Alliance did not participate in the2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[29]
In the2020 Ukrainian local elections the party nominated 155 candidates,[1] but none won a seat.[30]
According to party leader Vasyl Gatsko "Democratic Alliance is aChristian Democratic party".[3][4]
Democratic Alliance's platform calls for democracy and social justice, and for a society "based on human values, upholding the priority of human rights and freedoms".[3]
The party ispro-European andanti-corruption.[3][31] The party wants to improve Ukrainian democracy,[31] make laws that ensure thatpolice andprosecutors enforce the law fairly[31] and change public opinion insouth andeastern Ukraine.[31]
The party opposessame-sex marriages as Gatsko explained "Our position is that family is made up of a man and a woman".[3]
The party is popular among young voters.[3]
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