For the Future (political party)


For the Future is a political party in Ukraine registered in July 2008 as Ukraine of the Future . During the 2010 local elections, the party only took part in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, but it does so nationwide since the 2012 Ukrainian parliamentary election.
In October 2019 the party was renamed "For the Future". The party was renamed and taken over by the parliamentary group "For the Future", with initial 23 members, that was established in the Verkhovna Rada on 29 August 2019 following the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

History

Ukraine of the Future

The party was created in 2007. In 2012 Ukraine of the Future became member of the Liberal International
During the 2010 Ukrainian local elections the party won 4 representatives in the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Council and 4 seats in the city council of Dnipropetrovsk. In the simultaneously held elected for Dnipropetrovsk Mayor the parties candidate, Sviatoslav Oliynyk, finished second with 16.1%. Oliynyk is a former BYuT lawmaker.
In the 2012 parliamentary elections the party did not spend anything on campaigning and but still managed to take the 15th place among the 21 parties who participated on the nationwide list with 0.18% of the votes. But since their win was far below the 5% election threshold and they won no constituencies they thus failed to win parliamentary representation. Oliynyk headed the party list of the party during these elections.
The party did participate in the 2014 Ukrainian parliamentary election, and again did not win seats. The party did not participate in the 2015 Ukrainian local elections.
The party did not participate in the July 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election.

For the Future

Following the 2019 Ukrainian parliamentary election a parliamentary group "For the Future", with initial 23 members, was established in the Verkhovna Rada on 29 August 2019. In May 2020 deputies from this group announced the creation of a party of the same name. This "new party" is legally a continuation of "Ukraine of the Future" that was renamed in October 2019 "For the Future". In May 2020 lawmaker Ihor Palytsia was elected chairman of the party. According to Palytsia the party is de-facto a continuation of UKROP. The party intends to take part in the October 2020 Ukrainian local elections.