Solidarity (2000–2013) The party started in 2000 as a parliamentary faction called "Solidarity",
Taras Kuzio claims that this happened with the help of then President
Kuchma, who allegedly wanted to limit the influence of the SDPU(u). In 2000 that party merged into what would become the
Party of Regions (later to become for a period the biggest party of Ukraine) and Poroshenko became a Party of Regions deputy. Top party members who received a parliamentary mandate on party list of the Our Ukraine electoral bloc in 2002 were
Volodymyr Plyutynsky,
Volodymyr Makeyenko,
Eduard Matviychuk,
Anatoliy Korchynsky, while a single constituency in Vinnytsia Oblast was won by
Petro Poroshenko. After 2002, Solidarity stopped participating in elections. In 2004, the party left Our Ukraine, and was represented by 23 deputies in the
Verkhovna Rada (the forming of new factions whose parties were not directly elected into parliament was not unique in Ukraine at the time.) In March 2013 the
Ministry of Justice asked the
Central Election Commission of Ukraine for evidence that Solidarity had not been involved in elections since 2003. Stets was a member of the
united opposition's political council.
Petro Poroshenko Bloc (2014–2019) Early in 2014, Poroshenko became leader of the
National Alliance of freedom and Ukrainian patriotism "OFFENSIVE", which was renamed "All-Ukrainian Union Solidarity". By doing so, Poroshenko de facto prolonged the life of Solidarity and de facto merged the National Alliance of freedom and Ukrainian patriotism "OFFENSIVE" into Solidarity After this election (the party) "All-Ukrainian Party of Peace and Unity" was renamed National Alliance of Freedom and Ukrainian patriotism "OFFENSIVE". National Alliance of freedom and Ukrainian patriotism "OFFENSIVE" did not participate in the
2012 parliamentary elections. In May and June 2014,
Ukrainska Pravda characterised the party ("All-Ukrainian Union Solidarity") as "a myth with no website, unknown phone numbers and non existing addresses". During a 27 August 2014 party congress, the "All-Ukrainian Union Solidarity" changed its name to "Bloc of Petro Poroshenko" (,
Blok Petra Poroshenka), and elected the former
Minister of Internal Affairs,
Yuriy Lutsenko, as the new leader of the party. On 15 September it became clear that 30% of the Petro Poroshenko Bloc election list would be filled by members of UDAR and that UDAR leader Klitschko was at the top of this list; Klitschko vowed not to resign as incumbent
Mayor of Kyiv, but on 21 November he gave up his seat in the new parliament. According to political scientist Tadeusz A. Olszański (in mid-September 2014) this deal with
UDAR "enables it to use that party's large-scale structures, which the Poroshenko Bloc itself lacks". The party won the parliamentary election with 132 seats, beating the runner-up
People's Front, who won 82 seats. Top 10 politicians on the party list to the
Ukrainian parliament: 1.
Vitaliy Klychko, 2.
Yuriy Lutsenko, 3.
Olha Bohomolets, 4.
Volodymyr Hroysman, 5.
Mustafa Dzhemilev, 6.
Yuliy Mamchur, 7.
Maria Matios, 8.
Mykola Tomenko, 9.
Iryna Herashchenko, 10.
Vitaliy Kovalchuk. On 21 November 2014, the party became a member of the coalition supporting the
second Yatsenyuk government and endorsed nine new ministers for the government. In March 2015, "Solidarity" was added to the name "Bloc of Petro Poroshenko". On 28 August 2015
UDAR and Petro Poroshenko Bloc officially merged into Petro Poroshenko Bloc. It did well in
West and
central Ukraine and
Kherson Oblast region. According to Ukrainian media research of February 2016 22% of the parties' representatives in regional councils and 12% of the parties' parliamentary deputies were former members of the
Party of Regions. Following the fall of the second Yatsenyuk government, the party joined the coalition that supports the 14 April 2016 installed
Groysman Government. In the weeks prior to this 11 MPs had switched to the faction making forming the coalition possible. Klitschko resigned as Petro Poroshenko Bloc chairman (on 26 May) after a new law barring him as head of the
Kyiv City State Administration to be chairman or a member of a political party took effect on 1 May 2016. On 18 May 2019, Klitschko announced that UDAR would take part in the
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election autonomously. According to party leader Poroshenko this had to be done in order to bring in a new leadership of the party and to win the
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election. Top 10 politicians on the party list to the Ukrainian parliament in these elections were 1.
Petro Poroshenko, 2.
Andriy Parubiy, 3.
Iryna Herashchenko, 4.
Mykhailo Zabrodskyi, 5.
Sofia Fedyna, 6.
Mustafa Dzhemilev, 7.
Yana Zinkevych, 8.
Oleh Synyutka, 9.
Akhtem Chyihoz, 10.
Ivanna Klympush-Tsintsadze. In the 2019 parliamentary election, European Solidarity scored badly, dropping to 8.10% of votes and electing 23 MPs (37% of which were women) on the nationwide party list and winning 2 constituency seats. In this election European Solidarity did well in
West and
central Ukraine and it significantly improved on its 2019 parliamentary election result in all
Ukrainian oblasts. 3,543 people won seats in local councils on behalf of the party, that is about 10.73% of the available seats. ==Ideology and positions==