People's Will (parliamentary group)

People's Will
Воля народу
Leader Vacant
Founded February 27, 2014 (2014-02-27)
Headquarters Verkhovna Rada, Kiev, Ukraine
Ideology Centrism, Pro-Europeanism
Political position Centre
Colours      Green
Verkhovna Rada
19 / 450

[1]

Website
volyanarodu.com.ua

People's Will (Ukrainian: Воля народу), formerly known as Sovereign European Ukraine (Ukrainian: Соборна європейська Україна), is a Ukrainian parliamentary faction in its national parliament Verkhovna Rada.

History

Sovereign European Ukraine

The faction Sovereign European Ukraine was founded on 27 February 2014.[2] It was founded by MP Ihor Yeremeyev who had till then had not been a member of any faction.[3] The group included 35 MPs.[2] Most of them had been, like Yeremeyev, unaffiliated.[1][3] According to Yeremeyev not wanting a ministerial post had been one of the proviso to join the faction when it was established.[4]

On its first day the faction with 250 other MPs sign up to join the coalition supporting the Yatsenyuk Government with the Batkivshchyna, UDAR, Svoboda factions and the Economic Development faction and other MPs.[5]

The main policy aim of the faction were European integration and lustration, which is the purge of government officials associated with the past Communist system.[6][4]

People's Will

The parliamentary group was revived after the 2014 parliamentary elections in Ukraine by Yeremeyev; but was renamed "People's Will".[7] The new leader of the parliamentary group was again Yeremeyev.[8][7]

Members

Verkhovna Rada
Year
Party-list
Constituency /total
Overall seats won
Seat change
Government Ref
Popular vote
%
Seats /total
2014
35 / 450
[1]
2014 19/450
19 / 450
Decrease 16 [1]

Leaders

See also

References

External links

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