Party "Leading Force" The party was registered at the
Ukrainian Ministry of Justice on 23 April 2010 as "Leading Force" (,
Russian: Ведущая сила). The party was led by
Anatoly Kornienko.
2014 parliamentary elections . In September 2014 American lobbyist
Paul Manafort was hired as an advisor to (former Manafort client)
Viktor Yanukovych's former head of the
Presidential Administration of Ukraine Serhiy Lyovochkin. This alliance was to be led by
Serhiy Tihipko. Also on 14 September 2014, a forum took place in Kyiv with the banner "Peace. Stability. Revival", at the end of which
Party of Development of Ukraine,
Center All-Ukrainian Union,
Ukraine – Forward!,
Labour Ukraine,
New Politics and "State neutrality" decided to take part in the 2014 parliamentary elections as Opposition Bloc. Many individual members of Party of Regions ended up as candidates of Opposition Bloc. Korolevska and Boyko were both ministers in the
second Azarov Government. Serhiy Lyovochkin was also a candidate of the party. Five members of Party of Regions were in the top 10 of the Opposition Bloc's electoral list.) the party gained most votes in all 14 constituencies in
Kharkiv Oblast, all 6 constituencies in
Luhansk Oblast (were voting was possible In
Odesa Oblast 27 October preliminary result indicated that Petro Poroshenko Bloc had won 7 constituencies with the remaining 4 constituencies won by Opposition Bloc. In
Mykolaiv Oblast Petro Poroshenko Bloc seemed to be the clear winner with winning 5 constituencies while the remaining constituency won by Opposition Bloc. The party was one of the winners of the
2015 Ukrainian local elections gaining nationwide 11.5%. It gained most (of all) votes
South and
East Ukraine (except of
Kharkiv Oblast). In May 2016 Rabinovich left the party and its parliamentary faction after a request from his party Center All-Ukrainian Union.
Cessation and 2019 creation of two succession parties According to
Ukrainska Pravda in the summer of 2018 negotiations on the unification of the parties
For life and Opposition Bloc started. The same day Opposition Bloc leading members
Vadym Novynskyi and
Borys Kolesnikov claimed the agreement was a "personal initiative" of Boyko and that the party had not take any decisions on cooperation with For life. On 17 November 2018 Opposition Platform — For life nominated Boyko as its candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election.) were excluded from the Opposition Bloc faction (the reason given was) "because they betrayed their voters" interests. On 17 December 2018 an Opposition Bloc congress nominated
Oleksandr Vilkul as their candidate in the
2019 Ukrainian presidential election. But a Ukrainian court ruled three days before (in response to a lawsuit filed by People's Deputy of Ukraine for Opposition Bloc
Serhiy Larin) that Opposition Bloc's congress at which Vikul was to be nominated could not "reorganize the party by any means". On 18 December 2018 the website of Opposition Bloc stated that therefore all the decisions made at the congress were invalid. On 20 December 2018 the website of Opposition Bloc was down. Vilkul was nominated for the presidency again by
Opposition Bloc — Party of Peace and Development (the recently renamed Industrial Party of Ukraine) on 20 January 2019. According to
Liga.net Rinat Akhmetov had renamed Industrial Party of Ukraine to Opposition Bloc — Party of Peace and Development solely to circumvent the courts injunction of 20 December 2018 (which prohibited any changes to the statute of the (party) Opposition Bloc). Both these two offspring of Opposition Bloc took part independently of each other in the
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, with the Opposition Bloc — Party of Peace and Development (also) named into
Opposition Bloc. The composition of the shadow government of the Opposition Bloc is as follows: •
Prime Minister —
Borys Kolesnikov • Vice Prime Minister for Regional Policy —
Mykhailo Dobkin • Vice Prime Minister for Industry, New Industrialization and Reconstruction of Donbass —
Oleksandr Vilkul • Vice Prime Minister for Control over the Activities of Law Enforcement Agencies —
Vadim Rabinovich •
Minister of Social Policy of Ukraine —
Natalia Korolevska •
Minister of Economic Development and Trade —
Yevhen Murayev •
Minister of Social Security —
Mykhailo Papiyev •
Minister of Internal Affairs and Emergency Situations —
Kostiantyn Stognii •
Minister of Health —
Ihor Shurma •
Minister of Agriculture —
Mykola Shishman •
Minister of Infrastructure and Transport —
Volodymyr Shemaev •
Minister of Finance —
Viktor Skarshevsky •
Minister of Justice —
Yuriy Kotlyarov •
Minister of Education —
Olena Kolesnikova •
Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources —
Pavlo Zhila •
Minister of Foreign Affairs —
Kostyantyn Gryshchenko ==Ideology and stances==