Opposition Bloc (2019)
Opposition Bloc Опозиційний блок Оппозиционный блок | |
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| Leader | Yevheniy Murayev |
| Deputy Leader | Oleksandr Vilkul |
| Chairman | Borys Kolesnikov |
| Parliamentary Leader | Vadym Novynskyi |
| Founded | 7 June 2019 |
| Registered | 26 December 2018 |
| Banned | 25 July 2022 |
| Merger of | Opposition Bloc (2014) (Akhmetov's wing) Party for Peace and Development |
| Preceded by | Opposition Bloc (2014) |
| Succeeded by | Ukraine is Our Home |
| Headquarters | Kyiv |
| Ideology | Social liberalism Regionalism Russophilia Euroscepticism |
| Political position | Centre to centre-left |
| Affiliate parties | Nashi Revival Trust Deeds Strong Ukraine Christian Socialists Kernes Bloc Agrarian Party (united) For Case Studies |
| Oligarch association | Donetsk Clan |
| Colours | Blue White |
| Party flag | |
| Website | |
| opposition.com.ua | |
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Opposition Bloc, formerly called Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development until June 2019, was a Ukrainian political party that was founded in 2019. On 8 June 2022, the party was banned in court. The ban was not appealed and the party officially ceased to exist on 25 July of the same year.
The creation of the party was the result of a schism in the Opposition Bloc party, a party of the same name founded in 2014. By January 2019, two wings of this party had nominated two different candidates for the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election. Yuriy Boyko was nominated by the party wing called Opposition Platform — For Life, while a competing party wing wanted to nominate Oleksandr Vilkul as its candidate. The party wing supporting Vilkul formed a new party, Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development. That new party proceeded to nominate Vilkul as its presidential candidate. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the new party won six single-seat constituencies, and its nationwide list won 3.23% of the votes, failing to overcome the 5% election barrier.
Legally, Opposition Bloc — Party for Peace and Development is the successor of the Industrial Party of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Індустріальна Україна, Russian: Индустриальная Украина) founded in 2014.