History
The Democratic Party of Ukraine is one of the oldest political institutions of Ukraine. DemPU was founded in 1990 by a group of famous Ukrainian dissidents.
In the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1994 the party gained 2 seats. In the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 1998 the party was party of the Electoral bloc NEP with the Party of Economical Revival, the combination won 1,22% of the national vote; the party gained 1 (single-mandate constituency) seat. In a union with the Democratic Union the party gained 4 constituency seats during the Ukrainian parliamentary election, 2002. At the parliamentary elections 2006 the party took part in the alliance Block of people's democratic parties but this alliance did not overcome the 3% threshold (winning only 0.49% of the votes) and therefore no seats. In the 30 September 2007 elections, the party failed as part of the Ukrainian Regional Asset to win parliamentary representation.
The merger of United Centre with the Democratic Party of Ukraine failed to materialize prior to the first ever congress of United Centre.
In July 2011 the chairman of the Democratic Party of Ukraine Sergey Kozachenko was sentenced to eight years in prison Kiev District Court of Simferopol on charges of embezzling 65 million hryvnia in credit union's "Southern".
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