The Dictatorship Resistance Committee ( Ukrainian : Комітет опору диктатурі , Russian : Комитет сопротивления диктатуре) is a political alliance in Ukraine formed by several parliamentary factions, political parties and opposition activist groups, initially founded to oppose the former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych . Parliamentary members of the alliance joined the All-Ukrainian Association Fatherland ( Batkivshchyna ) as an umbrella coalition All-Ukrainian Association Fatherland – United Opposition in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary elections .
17-504: The Dictatorship Resistance Committee was formed in August 2011 and came to join some other opposition alliances that were already active; most parties had joined forces one year earlier in People's Committee to Protect Ukraine . It was especially designed to promote public and civic actions against the conviction of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko , who was also the leader of one of
34-473: A decision about joining the committee. One of the initiators of the committee is writer Dmytro Pavlychko . Present at the opening signing of the committee were among others: Yulia Tymoshenko , Borys Tarasyuk and Levko Lukyanenko . Although they were invited, and also in opposition to President Viktor Yanukovych , former President Viktor Yushchenko and former presidential candidate Arseniy Yatsenyuk were not present and did not publicly comment about
51-797: The European Party of Ukraine . Later, in December 2011 the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform and Civil Position announced they were negotiating a merger. However, in June 2012, the party announced it would compete on a single party list with other opposition parties during the 2012 parliamentary election . In a December 2011 poll by Rating , the party scored 2.3%, then 2.4% in May 2012. The party competed on an "umbrella" party list with Fatherland , along with several other opposition parties, for
68-427: The 2012 parliamentary election. This list won 101 seats with 25.55% of the party vote. The breakdown was 62 seats from the party list and 39 seats from single-member constituencies . The party itself had competed in 1 constituency where it lost. Hrytsenko was placed 3rd on the joint list and was elected. When several of the other parties that had competed under the joint list merged into Fatherland in June 2013
85-556: The Dictatorship Resistance Committee it signed an agreement on 22 January 2012 on joint actions with the alliance. People%27s Committee to Protect Ukraine The People's Committee to Protect Ukraine ( Ukrainian : Народний комітет захисту України, Narodny komitet zachystu Ukrajiny ) was a political movement in Ukraine formed May 2010. The committee intended to hold a mass protest campaign in Ukraine against
102-733: The committee. After the first rally of the movement (near the Verkhovna Rada building on May 11, 2010) opposition supporters complained of being hassled by the police in an attempt to limit the number of participants in the rally. According to the police buses were only stopped because companies didn't have permits to travel in convoys or if buses were in bad technical shape. Ukrainian Minister of Internal Affairs Anatolii Mohyliov stated on May 13, 2010 “ The law allows rallies but bans street barricades and loud shouts”. Mykola Tomenko , member of Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc , predicted on May 11, 2010 opposition rallies would get bigger and louder in
119-604: The conditions of widely spread attacks of the Yanukovych's regime onto the live-important national interest of Ukraine the first task of the Committee is to organize all-Ukrainian opposition movement to: Our actions will be carried out in accordance with the rights and freedoms defined by the Constitution of Ukraine, will be open for equal rights partnership to protect Ukraine. In early May 2010, Prime Minister Mykola Azarov called
136-430: The following opening statement: On the May 10, 2010, we, representatives of political parties and civil organizations have created People's Committee to Protect Ukraine . Taking into account the danger of losing the statehood and democratic freedoms by Ukrainian population in results of actions of Yanukovych's regime we announce the consolidation of all forces to coordinate the actions in order to protect Ukraine. In
153-498: The ideas of the committee "hysterical and hopeless". Meanwhile, one of the members of Party of Regions Valeriy Konovalyuk stated that "the committee is unlikely to receive support from the population". Civil Position Civil Position or Civic Position ( Ukrainian : Громадянська позиція ) is a political party in Ukraine registered in March 2005. It is led by former Minister of Defence Anatoliy Hrytsenko . The party
170-468: The member parties. In late September 2011, Tymoshenko called for the opposition to run the elections on a single-party ticket. In November 2011, the parties of the Dictatorship Resistance Committee chose the candidates who would be on the joint electoral lists for the electoral district ballots in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary elections . By March 2012, the Committee consisted of the following parties: Although UDAR of Vitaliy Klychko did not join
187-480: The near future. On 8 August 2011 All-Ukrainian Union "Fatherland" , Rukh , European Party of Ukraine , People's Self-Defense , Reforms and Order Party , Motherland Defenders Party , Civil Position and Front for Change formed the Dictatorship Resistance Committee "to better coordinate our efforts". The organisation saw as its main tasks: On the May 10, 2010 the committee released
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#1732859196710204-450: The party advocates an end to the conflict by use of force. The party was accepted into the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE) on 4 June 2016. The party nominated party leader Hrytsenko as a candidate in the 2019 Ukrainian presidential election on 11 January 2019. He placed fifth with 6.91% of the votes in the first round and thus did not proceed to the second round of
221-505: The party did not join them and kept its independence. Hrytsenko left the Fatherland faction on 14 January 2014. On 17 January 2014 he submitted a letter of resignation to parliament. Hrytsenko was a candidate for the party at the 2014 presidential election where he placed 4th in the first and only round. Previously, Hrytsenko was an independent candidate at the 2010 presidential election . On 7 September 2014, party congress decided that
238-451: The party was renamed Civil Position , and at the same time Hrytsenko became party leader. The decision to rename the party and change its chairman was approved by a party Congress on 21 January 2010. At the 2010 local elections , the party's results were infinitesimal. Civil Position gained one seat on the Ternopil city council. In August 2011, the party announced it would merge with
255-537: The party would participate in the 2014 parliamentary election on a joint list with members of the Democratic Alliance . For elections in single member constituencies, both parties participated separately. In the election, the party failed to clear the 5% election threshold (it got 3.1% of the votes) and also did not win a constituency seat and thus no parliamentary seats. Concerning the ongoing War in Donbass ,
272-416: The policies of President Viktor Yanukovych , who ultimately fled amid violence in 2014. On May 10, 2010 nine political parties and several non-governmental organizations signed a document on the creation of the committee: The parties Ukrainian Republican Party Assembly , Our Ukraine , Ukrainian Platform , Ukraine Cathedral and All-Ukrainian Public Organization Civil Position intended to make
289-400: Was registered in March 2005 under the name Mighty Ukraine ( Ukrainian : Могутня Україна ) and it was known as this until 2010. At this time the party did not participate in any parliamentary elections . The original party leader was Oleksandr Chubatenko. Chubatenko ran the election headquarters of Anatoliy Hrytsenko during the 2010 Ukrainian presidential election . In February 2010,
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