For Yanukovych!

"For Yanukovych!" (Ukrainian: За Януковича) was a political alliance in Crimea (an autonomous republic within Ukraine) between the Party of Regions and the Russian Bloc[1] during the 2006 Crimean parliamentary election.

At the election the alliance won 32.55% of the popular vote and 44 seats out of the 100 seats in the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea (more the 3 times as much as any other contender).[2] However, according to opinion polls, from then its ratings did fall.[3] After the elections members of the alliance tried to remove the speaker of the Verkhovna Rada of Crimea Anatoliy Hrytsenko also a member of For Yanukovych![4]

In the 2010 Crimean parliamentary election the Party of Regions and the Russian Bloc run separately.[5][6] The Party of Regions won 80 seats during the 2010 election; the Russian Bloc none.[7]

References

1. (in Russian) , Росбалт.RU (06/10/2009)
2. Kiev fails to end Crimea's ethnic tension Archived 2011-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, Oxford Analytica (February 7, 2007)
3. (in Ukrainian) У Януковича в Криму проблеми, Gazeta.ua (March 26, 2009)
4. (in Ukrainian) Соратник Януковича розповів, за що його вигнали з партії, Ukrayinska Pravda (September 15, 2009)
5. Local government elections in Ukraine: last stage in the Party of Regions’ takeover of power Archived August 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, Centre for Eastern Studies (October 4, 2010)
6. (in Russian) О партии Archived 2010-12-03 at the Wayback Machine, Russian Bloc
7. Regions Party gets 80 of 100 seats on Crimean parliament, Interfax Ukraine (11 November 2010)