People's Will ( Ukrainian : Воля народу ), formerly known as Sovereign European Ukraine ( Ukrainian : Соборна європейська Україна ), was a centrist, pro-Europe Ukrainian parliamentary faction in its national parliament Verkhovna Rada .
6-416: The faction Sovereign European Ukraine was founded on 27 February 2014. It was founded by MP Ihor Yeremeyev who had till then had not been a member of any faction. The group included 35 MPs. Most of them had been, like Yeremeyev, unaffiliated. According to Yeremeyev not wanting a ministerial post had been one of the conditions that needed to be met to join the faction when it was established. On its first day
12-579: 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. 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. The parliamentary group
18-420: The single-member districts seat of Manevychi. He was the founder and head of the parliamentary group People's Will since its foundation on 27 February 2014 (until 27 November 2014 this group was called Sovereign European Ukraine ). In January 2014, during the voting for the so-called "dictatorial laws", his vote was counted as "for", but within a week he submitted an application with a request to consider
24-643: Was a Ukrainian politician, People's Deputy of Ukraine of the 4th, 7th and 8th convocation (non-partisan, Chairman of the Deputy Group "People's Will"). He was co-owner of the Ukrainian fuel station network WOG . He was born in 1968 in Ostrozhets , Mlyniv Raion , Rivne Oblast , Ukrainian SSR , Soviet Union . In 1992, uniting the group of comrades from his institute, created a private enterprise "Continuum" in his native village and became its director. In 2002, he
30-683: Was elected to the Verkhovna Rada after winning a single-member districts seat as a member of the Agrarian Party of Ukraine in Manevychi . In December 2010, he ranked 41st on the Kyiv Post ' s list of the richest people in Ukraine. In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election and 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election , he was elected back into parliament as a non-partisan candidate again after winning
36-551: Was revived after the 2014 parliamentary elections in Ukraine by Yeremeyev; but was renamed "People's Will". The new leader of the parliamentary group was again Yeremeyev. Its initial strength was 20 MPs. Late October 2016 the group counted 19 MPs. Following the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election the faction was not revived in the 9th Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada . Ihor Yeremeyev Ihor Myronovych Yeremeyev ( Ukrainian : Ігор Миронович Єремеєв , 3 April 1968 – 12 August 2015)
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