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PopulismAnti-Leonid Kuchma{{Citation >first=Taras title=Kravchuk to the Orange Revolution: The Victory of Civic Nationalism in Post-Soviet Ukraine publisher=University of Michigan Press page=204}}{{Citation newspaper=The Economist url=http://www.economist.com/node/158894}}Centre-left{{Citation >first=Kataryna title=The Moulding of Ukraine: The Constitutional Politics of State Formation year=2001 |page=263}}| international = Orange}} Orange| headquarters = Kyiv| colorcode = orange}}All-Ukrainian Association “Community” (), often simply known as Hromada, is a Ukrainian political party registered in March 1994 and reregistered in March 2005. The party’s leader was formerly Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Lazarenko.{{in lang|uk}} Політична партія Всеукраїнське об’єднання „Громада”, Databases DATA{{in lang|uk}} Політична партія Всеукраїнське об’єднання “Громада”, Databases ASDThe party was present in the Verkhovna Rada from 1998 to 2002. Since then, it has unsuccessfully participated in national elections. It has not participated in national elections since the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

History

In 1994, Hromada was created by Oleksandr Turchynov and Pavlo Lazarenko.During the 1998 elections the party won 24 seats in the Verkhovna Rada, mainly because of its good results in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The party won 4.7% of the vote and 26 seats in the Verkhovna Rada, 16 proportional and 8 individual.When Lazarenko fled to the United States in the spring of 1999 to avoid investigations for embezzlement,A CABINET OF REFORMS?, The Jamestown Foundation (January 12, 2000)REFORMIST UKRAINIAN PREMIER APPOINTED, The Jamestown Foundation (January 12, 2000) various faction members left the party to join other parliamentary factions,MAYOR ESCAPES ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, The Jamestown Foundation (November 30, 1999) including Lazarenko’s close ally and future Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko who set up the Batkivshchyna faction.The Hromada faction was disbanded in the Verkhovna Rada on 29 February 2000 because it was unable to meet the minimum requirement of fourteen members.NEW PARLIAMENTARY GROUP FORMED BY LEFTIST DISSENTERS, The Jamestown Foundation (March 6, 2000)The party did not participate in the 2002 elections.

Lazarenko Bloc

In the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election, Hromada participated in the “Lazarenko Bloc” (), which consisted of Hromada, the Social Democratic Union, and the Social Democratic Party of Ukraine, but this bloc was supported by only 76,950 voters, or 0.30%, and therefore did not make it to parliament. But the block reached third place in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast council elections of 2006. Pavlo Lazarenko’s brother, Ivan Lazarenko, is vice-chairman of Dnipropetrovsk Oblast councilWEB,umoloda.kyiv.ua/number/1165/180/41515, Лазаренко по телефону, umoloda.kyiv.ua, and the party itself governed the city in an alliance with the Party of Regions.Hometown might not vote for Tymoshenko, Kyiv Post (December 11, 2009)In the 2007 elections the party did not take part because the Central Election Commission of Ukraine refused to register candidates of Hromada as candidates because Hromada did not notify the Central Election Commission of the right date of its congress.{{in lang|ru}} Украинский политический фарс заставляет Лазаренко прощать обиды {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723025758news.liga.net/elect2007/interview/NI070091.html |date=2011-07-23 }}, ЛІГА.net (September 10, 2007) The party planned to participate in the elections (again) in an election bloc with the Social Democratic Union. Social Democratic Union did not participate in the 2007 election either.{{in lang|uk}} Партія “Соціал-демократичний Союз”, www.sd.net.ua

Since 2007

During the 2010 Ukrainian local elections, the party won 2 representatives in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council.{{in lang|uk}} Results of the elections, preliminary data, on interactive maps by Ukrayinska Pravda (November 8, 2010) In the Dnipropetrovsk city council, however, the party lost all its seats. In the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party won 0.08% of the national votes, and none of the four constituencies it had competed in, thus failing to win parliamentary representation.{{in lang|uk}} Proportional votes {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121030190210www.cvk.gov.ua/vnd2012/wp300pt001f01%3D900.html |date=2012-10-30 }} & Constituency seats {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105073259www.cvk.gov.ua/vnd2012/wp039pt001f01%3D900.html |date=2012-11-05 }}, Central Election Commission of Ukraine The Central Election Commission of Ukraine had refused Pavlo Lazarenko’s registration for this election.Central Election Commission registers Hromada party ticket without Lazarenko, Kyiv Post (15 August 2012)Lazarenko brothers lead Hromada list of candidates for deputies, Kyiv Post (6 August 2012)The party did participate in the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election, in 4 simple majority constituencies, but did not win parliamentary representation.{{in lang|uk}} Results of voting in single constituencies in 2012 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121127194105www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2012/wp039?PT001F01=900 |date=2012-11-27 }} & Nationwide list {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120815025015www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2012/wp400?PT001F01=900 |date=2012-08-15 }}, Central Election Commission of Ukraine{{in lang|uk}} Candidates, RBC UkraineParty of Regions gets 185 seats in Ukrainian parliament, Batkivschyna 101 - CEC, Interfax-Ukraine (12 November 2012)The party did not participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election nor the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.WEB,ukr.vote/en/parties/11, Електоральна пам’ять, ukr.vote, Alphabetical Index of parties in 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141218043507www.cvk.gov.ua/pls/vnd2014/wp501e?PT001F01=910 |date=2014-12-18 }}, Central Election Commission of Ukraine

Election results{| class“wikitable” style@float:no”

style="background-color:#C9C9C9“! colspan=“8” |Parliamentary elections since 1998! style="width: 20px“|Year! style="width: 60px“|Votes! style="width: 20px“|%! style="width: 20px“|Mandates! 1998 1,242,235 4.68 23! 2002 0! 2006 0! 2007 0! 2012 0! 2014 0! 2019 0

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