In August 2009, the party was created under the name "Party of Ukrainian youth" (). In June 2014,
Verkhovna Rada MP
Yury Derevyanko was a member of the party. In June 2014, it appeared that
Viktoria Siumar would lead the party; but she joined
People's Front soon after. The party participated in the
2014 elections to the Verkhovna Rada. At the time, the Volia candidates were included in the election list of
Self Reliance (one of its members on the party list of
People's Front This way the party won 1 parliamentary seat when Derevyanko won
single-member districts number 87 (
first-past-the-post wins a parliament seat) located in
Nadvirna. Following the election, Derevyanko stated the party would start its own parliamentary group to defend its “principles, values and political promises”; because of this, other elected (into parliament) members left the party on 9 November 2014. However, no such faction was created. But in the parliament, Volia did end its collaboration with Self Reliance due to "unsatisfactory cooperation" and the claim that certain members of Self Reliance had not met the "
lustration, moral and ethical criteria." In December 2018, however, it reversed this decision. Derevyanko stated Volia would not merge because Movement of New Forces leader
Mikheil Saakashvili was more interested in his native
Georgia than in
Ukrainian politics. The party failed to win both national elections in 2019. Viola failed to win any parliamentary seats in the
2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election. The party had 4 candidates in constituencies, but none of them won a parliamentary seat (their best performing candidate gained 1.08%). In the
2020 Ukrainian local elections the party gained 12 deputies (0.02% of all available mandates). ==See also==