Dictatorship Resistance Committee

The Dictatorship Resistance Committee (Ukrainian: Комітет опору диктатурі (Komitet oporyu diktatyuri)) was an alliance in Ukraine formed by several parliamentary factions, political parties and opposition activist groups that opposed the 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.

Dictatorship Resistance Committee

Комітет опору диктатурі
FoundedAugust 5, 2011 (2011-08-05)[1]
Preceded byYulia Tymoshenko Bloc
HeadquartersLviv[1]
IdeologyPro-Europeanism
ColoursWhite

History

The Dictatorship Resistance Committee 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.[2] 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 the member parties.[3]

Late September 2011 Tymoshenko called for the opposition to run the elections on a single-party ticket.[4] 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.[5][6]

Members

By March 2012, the Committee consisted of the following parties:[7]

Although UDAR of Vitaliy Klychko did not join the Dictatorship Resistance Committee it signed an agreement on 22 January 2012 on joint actions with the alliance.[9]

Withdrawn members

References
  1. (in Ukrainian) Комітет опору диктатурі об'єднав демократичні партії, UNIAN (6 August 2011)
  2. Ukrainian political forces create people's committee to protect Ukraine, Kyiv Post (May 10, 2010)
  3. Ukraine opposition alliance urges mass-scale public action against government, Kyiv Post (October 11, 2011)
  4. Tymoshenko: Opposition should participate in parliamentary elections on single party ticket, Kyiv Post (September 27, 2011)
  5. (in Ukrainian) Комітет опору диктатурі спробує поділити округи, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (21 November 2011)
  6. (in Ukrainian) Комітет опору диктатурі зробив паузу, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (21 November 2011)
  7. (in Ukrainian) «Свобода» пропонує реорганізувати Комітет опору диктатурі через неефективність, Ukrainskyi Tyzhden (28 November 2011)
  8. Yatseniuk says Tymoshenko, Yanukovych will unite if parliament not dissolved, Kyiv Post (December 7, 2009)
  9. Tymoshenko, Lutsenko should participate in 2012 parliamentary elections, says Klychko, Interfax Ukraine (23 January 2012)
  10. (in Ukrainian) Гриценко покинув Комітет опору диктатурі, Ukrayinska Pravda (22 November 2011)
  11. Parliament passes law on parliamentary elections, Kyiv Post (17 November 2011)
  12. (in Ukrainian) ВР ухвалила закон про вибори народних депутатів, Interfax Ukraine (17 November 2011)
  13. Ukrainian Opposition Parties Mull Possible Coordination, Alliances, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (August 29, 2011)
  14. (in Ukrainian) З БЮТ пішли дві людини Королевської, Ukrayinska Pravda (14 March 2012)
  15. Опозиція вигнала зі свого "опорного" комітету партію Ющенка (Opposition excluded out its core committee the Yushchenko's party) Ukrayinska Pravda (15 June 2012)
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