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The Our Ukraine political party decided to dissolve during its 12th congress on March 2 in Kyiv. 

Some 267 delegates voted for the decision, two members voted against the decision and six persons abstained. A total of 289 delegates were present at the meeting.

According to the decision, the activity of the Our Ukraine party is terminated through self-liquidation (dissolution). This also includes the stop in the functioning of the party organizations, its statutory bodies, in particular the party leader, the party central governing bodies, the governing authorities of the party organizations, the executive authorities, the party control and revision authorities.

The constituent documents, the flag and the stamp of the party will be handed over to the Orange Revolution Museum at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.

In addition, a liquidation commission, including  brother of ex-President Viktor Yushchenko Petro Yuschenko, (the chairman), Vira Ulyanchenko, Iryna Vannikova, Mykola Onyschuk, Valentyna Rudenko, and Zynoviy Shkutiaka, was created.

The commission is authorized to solve the issues of repaying debts to the party organizations, as well as transferring and using the party’s property and assets, which cannot be distributed among the members of the party. 

The Our Ukraine political council dismissed Serhiy Bondarchuk as its head and elected Shkutiak in his stead on February 9. Based on this decision, the Justice Ministry made relevant amendments to the State Court Rulings Register on March 1.

At the same time, the organizing committee of Our Ukraine’s 12th congress chaired by Bondarchuk on February 10 decided to hold a congress in Kyiv on March 2. The organizing committee included 29 representatives of most of the regional organizations, namely those of the Crimean Autonomous Republic, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Chernivtsi, Donetsk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Khmelnytsky, Kirovohrad, Kyiv, Lviv, Mykolaiv, Poltava, Ternopil, Volyn, Zakarpattia, Zaporizhia, and Zhytomyr regions, Kyiv, Sevastopol, the Central Auditing Commission, and the executive committee, including the chairmen and deputy chairmen of the party’s regional organizations, the heads of its executive committees and the members of the city and district organizations.

Shkutiak said Our Ukraine’s congress led by Viktor Yuschenko would be held on May 18.

Bondarchuk had claimed earlier that Our Ukraine’s campaign in the elections to the Verkhovna Rada in 2012 was pursued in the Party of Regions’ interests.

“Our Ukraine’s election campaign was financed from the Party of Regions’ headquarters, and this is a fact. The members of district elections commissions were replaced by the Regions Party members in the Party of Regions’ interests, and this is also a fact. The replacement of the members of precinct commissions in the Party of Regions’ interests by the Party of Regions members is also a fact,” Bondarchuk said on Channel Five on February 22.

The parliamentary elections in Ukraine were held in the fall of 2012. Our Ukraine failed to overcome the 5% qualification threshold, garnering only 1.11% of the vote.