Ukrainian People's Party

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The Ukrainian People's Party (Ukrains'ka Narodna Partiya) is a political party in Ukraine, led by Yury Kostenko.

Poster of the party reads: "Power to Ukrainians! We are Ukrainians! This is our land!"

At the legislative elections in Ukraine, 30 March 2002, the Ukrainian National Movement (Ukrajins'kyi Narodnyj Rukh) was part of the Viktor Yushchenko Bloc Our Ukraine.

In January of 2003 it changed the name to "Ukrainian People's Party" to avoid being confused with People's Movement of Ukraine, out of the party was originally split.

At the legislative elections in Ukraine, 26 March 2006, the party was part of the Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch.

In the parliamentary elections on 30 September 2007, the party was part of the Our Ukraine alliance, that won 72 out of 450 seats.

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(Ukrainian) Ukrainian People's Party official site

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Parliamentary blocs and parties	Party of Regions (175) Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (156) (All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" • Reforms and Order Party • Ukrainian Social Democratic Party) Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc (72) (People's Union "Our Ukraine" • Forward, Ukraine! • People's Movement of Ukraine • Ukrainian People's Party • Ukrainian Republican Party Assembly • Christian Democratic Union • European Party of Ukraine • PORA • Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists • Motherland Defenders Party) Communist Party of Ukraine (27) Lytvyn Bloc (20) (People's Party • Labour Party of Ukraine)

Extra-parliamentary blocs and parties	Socialist Party of Ukraine People's Opposition Bloc of Natalia Vitrenko (Progressive Socialist Party of Ukraine • Rus'-Ukrainian Union) Ukrainian Regional Asset (Popular Democratic Party • Democratic Party of Ukraine • Republican Christian Party) Opposition Bloc "Ne Tak" (Social Democratic Party of Ukraine (united) • Republican Party of Ukraine • Women for the Future • All-Ukrainian Union "Center") Ukrainian National Bloc of Kostenko and Plyushch (Party of Free Peasants and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine • Political Party "Cathedral Ukraine") Bloc of the Party of Pensioners of Ukraine (Party of Pensioners of Ukraine • Party of Protection of Pensioners of Ukraine) KUCHMA Electoral Bloc of Political Parties (Party "Union" • All-Ukrainian Union "Center") Other parties: Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs • Party of Greens of Ukraine • Viche • All-Ukrainian Union "Freedom"

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