page_title: Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc
section_title: Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2006
hierarchical_section_title: Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc / History / Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2006
caption_attribution_description: Ukrainian Parliamentary Election 2006 - Our Ukraine (non-verbose) percentage of total national vote (H=30, C=%*25, B=100)
context_page_description: The Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc was an electoral alliance active in Ukraine from 2001 until 2012, associated with former President Viktor Yushchenko. Since 2005, the bloc had been dominated by a core consisting of the People's Union "Our Ukraine" party and five smaller partner parties. On 17 November 2011, the Ukrainian Parliament approved an election law that banned the participation of blocs of political parties in parliamentary elections. Since then several members of the Bloc have since merged with other parties.
  The Our Ukraine Bloc was most closely associated with the Orange Revolution and continued to use orange as its political colour. In July 2007, the old Our Ukraine bloc had been reorganized into the Our Ukraine–People's Self-Defense Bloc for the 2007 parliamentary election in September 2007.
context_section_description: During the election campaign some Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc members suspected Our Ukraine to be responsible for leaflets aimed against Yulia Tymoshenko, like fake invitations to celebrate her birthday at McDonald's.
  The "Our Ukraine" bloc was soundly defeated in the 2006 Ukrainian parliamentary election with only 13,95% of the recorded vote came in third place behind the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc - 22% 156 seats, and the Party of Regions -33% 175 seats. It won 81 out of 450 seats.
  The alliance included the following parties:
  People's Union Our Ukraine (40)
  Party of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Ukraine (7)
  People's Movement of Ukraine (10)
  Christian Democratic Union (3)
  Ukrainian Republican Party Assembly (3)
  Congress of Ukrainian Nationalists (3)
  Unaffiliated members (15)
  Following the elections there has been calls for Ukraine's President Viktor Yushchenko who was closely aligned and spokesperson for Our Ukraine during the March Parliamentary election to resign from Our Ukraine and to stand independent.
  Initially the Our Ukraine Bloc intended to join the Alliance of National Unity coalition and five of its ministers where initially appointed into the Cabinet of Ministers; Justice Minister Roman Zvarych, Family and Sports Minister Yuriy Pavlenko, Emergency Situations Minister Viktor Baloha, Culture Minister Ihor Likhovyy, and Health Minister Yuriy Polyachenko. Only 30 of the 80 deputies from Our Ukraine Bloc voted for approval of this Cabinet on 10 August 2006. However Our Ukraine Bloc did not join the coalition and it wanted the Communist Party to leave the coalition before they would enter it. Meanwhile, several parties member of the Bloc announced they would go into opposition and would never join the coalition. By November 2006 the five Our Ukraine Bloc ministers where dismissed by parliament or withdrawn by Our Ukraine Bloc.
  Top 10 members
  Yuriy Yekhanurov (Our Ukraine)
  Anatoliy Kinakh (PPPU)
  Borys Tarasyuk (People's Movement of Ukraine)
  Olha Herasymiuk (unaffiliated)
  Ruslana Lezhychko (unaffiliated)
  Viacheslav Kyrylenko (unaffiliated)
  Ksenia Lyapina (Our Ukraine)
  Mykola Katerynchuk (Our Ukraine)
  Ruslan Knyazevych (unaffiliated)
  Lilia Hryhorovych (Our Ukraine)
caption: A map showing the results of Our Ukraine in Ukraine's oblasts during the 2006 parliamentary election.
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