European Solidarity

A liberal conservative centre-right party in Ukraine, led since 2014 by Petro Poroshenko, who served as President of Ukraine from 2014 to 2019.

Until 2013, the party was known as the All-Ukrainian Party of Peace and Unity (VPME), which had contacts with Russian Party of Peace and Unity and held Socialist and Russophile positions. In 2013, the party renamed itself the National Alliance of Freedom and Ukrainian Patriotism (NASTUP). In late 2013, Poroshenko's Solidarity party was dissolved by the Supreme Court, and in early 2013, Poroshenko took over the NASTUP party to serve as the new political vehicle for Solidarity. Under its then-name, the Petro Poroshenko Bloc, the party won 132 of the 423 contested seats in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election—more than any other party.

In August 2015, the Ukrainian Democratic Alliance for Reform (UDAR) merged into the party. In May 2019, UDAR reversed this merger. As of October 2017, the party had approximately 30,000 members; former members of the Party of Regions are barred from membership. In the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election, the party won 23 seats via the nationwide party list and 2 constituency seats.

Since 2014, the party was described as Christian democratic, liberal-conservative, conservative,liberal, and civic nationalist. Regarding its foreign policy stance, the party supports Ukraine's membership in the European Union and a peaceful resolution to the Russo-Ukrainian War. In its program, they stated their support for decentralization and anti-corruption among other principles.

Chairperson: Lyudmyla Yankovska (29 January 2000 – 7 June 2013), Maksym Ivanenko, Ruslan Sekela, Yuriy Khorlikov (7 June 2013 – 21 March 2014), Yuriy Stets (21 March – 27 August 2014), Yuriy Lutsenko (27 August 2014 – 28 August 2015), Vitali Klitschko (28 August 2015 – 31 May 2019), Petro Poroshenko (31 May 2019 – present)