Hromada Громада | |
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| Leader | Pavlo Lazarenko |
| Founder | Pavlo Lazarenko Oleksandr Turchynov |
| Founded | 1994; 31 years ago (1994)[1] |
| Headquarters | Kyiv |
| Ideology | Populism Anti-Kuchma[2][3] |
| Political position | Centre-left[4] |
| Colours | Orange |
All-Ukrainian Association "Community" (Ukrainian:Всеукраїнське об'єднання «Громада»,romanized: Vseukrayins'ke ob'iednannia «Hromada»), often simply known asHromada, is aUkrainian political party registered in March 1994[5] and reregistered in March 2005.[6] The party's leader was formerlyPrime Minister of UkrainePavlo Lazarenko.[5][6]
The party was present in theVerkhovna Rada from 1998 to 2002. Since then, it has unsuccessfully participated innational elections.[5][6][7] It has not participated in national elections since the2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[8]
In 1994, Hromada was created byOleksandr Turchynov andPavlo Lazarenko.[1]
During the1998 elections the party won 24 seats in theVerkhovna Rada, mainly because of its good results in theDnipropetrovsk Oblast. The party won 4.7% of the vote and 26 seats in the Verkhovna Rada, 16 proportional and 8 individual.[5][6]
When Lazarenko fled to theUnited States in the spring of 1999 to avoid investigations for embezzlement,[9][10] various faction members left the party to join other parliamentary factions,[11] including Lazarenko's close ally and futurePrime Minister of UkraineYulia Tymoshenko who set up theBatkivshchyna faction.[9]
The Hromada faction was disbanded in the Verkhovna Rada on 29 February 2000 because it was unable to meet the minimum requirement of fourteen members.[12]
The party did not participate in the2002 elections.[5][6]
In the2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Hromada participated in the "Lazarenko Bloc" (Ukrainian:Блок Лазаренка), which consisted of Hromada, theSocial Democratic Union, and the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine, but this bloc was supported by only 76,950 voters, or 0.30%,[5][6] and therefore did not make it to parliament. But the block reached third place in theDnipropetrovsk Oblast council elections of 2006.Pavlo Lazarenko's brother,Ivan Lazarenko, is vice-chairman ofDnipropetrovsk Oblast council[13][14] and the party itself governed the city in an alliance with theParty of Regions.[13]
In the2007 elections the party did not take part because theCentral Election Commission of Ukraine refused to register candidates of Hromada as candidates because Hromada did not notify the Central Election Commission of the right date of its congress.[15] The party planned to participate in the elections (again) in anelection bloc with the Social Democratic Union.[15] Social Democratic Union did not participate in the 2007 election either.[16]
During the2010 Ukrainian local elections, the party won 2 representatives in theDnipropetrovsk Oblast Council.[17] In theDnipropetrovsk City Council, however, the party lost all its seats.[17] In the2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party won 0.08% of the national votes, and none of the four constituencies it had competed in,[18] thus failing to win parliamentary representation.[7] TheCentral Election Commission of Ukraine had refused Pavlo Lazarenko's registration for this election.[18]
The party did participate in the2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, in 4 simple majority constituencies, but did not win parliamentary representation.[19][20][21]
The party did not participate in the2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election nor the2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[8][22]
| Parliamentary elections since 1998 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Votes | % | Mandates | ||||
| 1998 | 1,242,235 | 4.68 | 23 | ||||
| 2002 | Did not participate | 0 | |||||
| 2006 | As part of Lazarenko Bloc | 0 | |||||
| 2007 | Did not participate | 0 | |||||
| 2012 | Did not participate | 0 | |||||
| 2014 | Did not participate | 0 | |||||
| 2019 | Did not participate | 0 | |||||