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Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform

"UDAR" redirects here. For other uses, see Udar (disambiguation).
Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform of Vitali Klitschko
Український демократичний альянс за реформи Віталія Кличка
LeaderVitali Klitschko[1][2]
Founded14 March 2005[1] (as European Capital)
24 April 2010 (as UDAR)[3]
Preceded byEuropean Capital
Vitali Klitschko Bloc
HeadquartersKyiv
Youth wingYouth Wing
Women's wingWomen's Movement[4]
IdeologyLiberalism[5][6][7]
Civic nationalism[8]
Pro-Europeanism[9][10][11]
Political positionCentre-right[12][13]
European affiliationEuropean People's Party (observer)[14]
Colours  Red
SloganFrom personal success to the success of the country[15]
Verkhovna Rada
0 / 450
Regions[16]
183 / 43,122
Kyiv City Council
30 / 120
Election symbol
Website
udar.party Edit this at Wikidata

The Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform of Vitali Klitschko (Ukrainian: Український демократичний альянс за реформи Віталія Кличка, using the acronym UDAR Vitali Klitschko (Ukrainian: УДАР) translates to "strike" or "punch", English: PUNCH of Vitali Klitschko)[17] is a political party in Ukraine headed by retired[18] Ukrainian professional heavyweight boxer and WBC world heavyweight champion emeritus Vitali Klitschko.[2] The party has been an observer member of the European People's Party (EPP) since 2013.[14]

The party's original name was Political Party "European Capital" (Ukrainian: Політична партія "Європейська столиця", Russian: Политическая партия "Европейская столица"), founded in March 2005 by businessman Lev Partshaladze.[1] On 24 April 2010, it was renamed Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform and elected boxer Vitali Klitschko as its leader, following its participation in the Vitali Klitschko Bloc (Ukrainian: Блок Віталія Кличка, Russian: Блок Виталия Кличко), during the 2008 Kyiv local election.[3][19]

The party won 40 seats in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[20]

In the 2014 parliamentary election, 30% of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc election list was filled by members of UDAR (as non-partisan) and UDAR leader Klitschko topped that list.[21] The Petro Poroshenko Bloc won the election with 132 seats.[22] UDAR officially merged into the Petro Poroshenko Bloc on 28 August 2015.[23]

In May 2019 Klitschko announced that UDAR would take part independently in the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.[24] In this election UDAR did compete as an independent party again, but only in 15 single-mandate constituencies and it failed to win any seats.[25][26]

In the 2020 Kyiv local election UDAR won 30 of the 120 seats of the Kyiv City Council.[27] In the same election Klitschko was reelected as Mayor of Kyiv with 50.52% of the votes.[28]

  1. ^ a b c (in Ukrainian) Політична партія "УДАР (Український Демократичний Альянс за Реформи) Віталія Кличка", Центр политической информации "Дата"
  2. ^ a b "WBC World Champion Vitaly Klitschko leads new party". Kyiv Post. 2010-04-24. Retrieved 2009-11-01.
  3. ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Віталій Кличко очолив політичну партію «УДАР» (фото), Vitali Klitschko Bloc (April 24, 2010)
  4. ^ Жіночий рух ПП "УДАР"
  5. ^ Varfolomeyev, Oleg (18 September 2015). "Ukraine's pro-government parties join forces ahead of local elections". The Ukrainian Weekly. Eurasia Daily Monitor. Archived from the original on 20 September 2015. Retrieved 25 September 2015.
  6. ^ "Ukraine election: President Yanukovych party claims win". BBC News. 28 October 2012.
  7. ^ Balmforth, Richard (24 October 2012). "Corruption No. 1 problem as Ukraine heads for election". Reuters.
  8. ^ "Кличко: я йду в президенти, а влада хоче мене не пустити". BBC News Ukraine. 24 October 2013. Archived from the original on 2017-02-11. Retrieved 4 May 2023.
  9. ^ Freeman, Colin (6 November 2011). "Why boxer Vitali Klitschko wants to become Ukraine's new political heavyweight". The Telegraph. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  10. ^ "Vitali Klitschko to knock out all Ukrainian politicians". Pravda. 31 October 2011. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  11. ^ "Heavyweight champ Klitschko predicts fraud in October Ukraine vote". Monsters and Critics. 12 January 2012. Archived from the original on 16 October 2013. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
  12. ^ "What helped Klitschko build up his lead?". The Day.
  13. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-11-01. Retrieved 2013-02-28.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  14. ^ a b (in Ukrainian) Європейська народна партія взяла до себе "УДАР" і виключила "Нашу Україну" European People's Party took a "hit" and excluded "Our Ukraine", Ukrayinska Pravda (6 September 2013)
    Member Parties Archived 2016-05-04 at the Wayback Machine, European People's Party
    (in Ukrainian) Klitschko goes to the Congress of the European People's Party, Glavcom (19 November 2019)
  15. ^ "Кличко". kyiv.klichko.org.
  16. ^ Обрані депутати місцевих рад. www.cvk.gov.ua (in Ukrainian). 23 November 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2020.
  17. ^ Auyezov, Olzhas; Balmforth, Richard (2 November 2012), Ukraine opposition complains of stolen seats, Reuters,
  18. ^ Vitali Klitschko: Heavyweight champion swaps boxing for politics, BBC Sport (67 December 2013)
  19. ^ (in Ukrainian) Сформовано політичну раду всеукраїнської партії «УДАР», Vitali Klitschko Bloc (April 24, 2010)
  20. ^ Party of Regions gets 185 seats in Ukrainian parliament, Batkivschyna 101 - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (12 November 2012)
  21. ^ Cite error: The named reference UDARisPPB was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  22. ^ Poroshenko Bloc to have greatest number of seats in parliament, Ukrinform (8 November 2014)
    People's Front 0.33% ahead of Poroshenko Bloc with all ballots counted in Ukraine elections - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
    Poroshenko Bloc to get 132 seats in parliament - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (8 November 2014)
  23. ^ Klitschko becomes leader of Petro Poroshenko Bloc 'Solidarity' party, Interfax-Ukraine (28 August 2015)
  24. ^ (in Ukrainian) Klitschko said that UDAR will go to the polls, Ukrayinska Pravda (May 18, 2019)
  25. ^ Cite error: The named reference 603674Vitali was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  26. ^ Cite error: The named reference Udarpe2019noseats was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  27. ^ Cite error: The named reference Udar0pt00_t001f01 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  28. ^ Cite error: The named reference 3131537-vitali-klitschko was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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